Haydock Cricket Club

read moreOn behalf of all the volunteers and staff at the Alder Centre, I write to express a sincere and heartfelt 'thank you' to you and all the Band for playing for us at the Light Up A Life service. The music really was beautiful and appreciated by all. Please pass on to all the Band members our thanks and appreciation. Established since 1861, The Haydock Band is a modern arts organisation providing brass band services and musical tuition to its community. The band is the oldest community run organisation in St Helens and performs concerts all over the North West.

read moreSince 2007, Mark Quinn has been the musical director and the band has seen an unprecedented rise in standards of playing, results in contests and high quality concerts. The band has played at the Grand National and provided the fanfares to start the race, this was played live to 75,000 people and televised to some 600 million people all over the world. The band regularly plays for the Jockey Club at Haydock Park and Aintree race course and has appeared on Granada reports, ITV and ITV4 in 2018 and 2019.

read moreAll our musicians are recruited from our local community. We are all volunteers and nobody in the organisation gets paid for their attendance at Band. Any profits we make are invested back into the band and our community. Our musicians are trained up to ABRSM grade eight standard and we all strive to be the very best brass players we can. High standards in attendance, attitude and ability are the corner stones of all our musicians and a prerequisite of new members. Mark has also been a driving force on our committee, having served the band as manager for over twenty seven years.

read moreThe Haydock Band prides itself on providing high quality brass concerts for our audiences all over the North West of England. We can provide traditional brass band concerts or a modern reinterpretation of this format. We have regular themed concerts held locally in Haydock and these have included, Movie Nights, Irish Nights, Mining themed and something we are experts in, the music of Brassed Off - a theatre production we have starred in professionally four times. All our concerts feature solos from our talented pool of musicians.