Welcome to the Crofton Silver Band Website

Crofton Village is located just outside of Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Like many of the villages and towns throughout Wakefield Crofton is a former mining community that has long links to the brass band tradition. Although the mining industry has been decimated in the region along with several local brass bands, Crofton Silver Band survived and continues to thrive, entertaining hundreds of people each year. For a more detailed information about the bands formation through to the current day please check out our history pages.

The band rehearse at the Church of the Resurection in Fitzwilliam on monday and thursday evenings, details of the times and a map to the rehearsal venue can be found in the about us pages, the junior band rehearse on wednesday evenings at the same venue. If you are interested in joining either of the bands, please check the vacancy page or contact the band secretary.

Crofton Silver Band are conducted by Tim Sidwell and currently compete in the Third Section in the brass band championships. The band were promoted from the fourth section after winning the Yorkshire Regional Championships in March 2007 and went on to be awarded fifth place in the fourth section National Championships in September, there ia a comprehensive list of contest results in the about us section.

The band have a very active diary of events throughout the year - concerts, contests, marches and socials. To keep up to date with any upcoming events either bookmark our events page or subscribe to the RSS Feed to be updated as to when new events are to take place. If you would like to book the band or a smaller ensemble, to play at your event please contact the band.

The band will release its first CD prior to Christmas and will be competing at Pontins in the Autumn of 2008 more details of both items will be available on the website, to keep abreast of the progress of the CD check our news pages regularly or add the RSS Feed to your feed reading software to be alerted as news is added to the website.

Thanks for visting the site if you have any comments or feedback about the site or just want to say hello, please leave a message on the guestbook or via the contacts page. If you have your own website or would like to publicise a banding, music or Crofton related website please feel free to add your link for consideration to be included on the links page.