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6 of the band were present to provide musical accompaniment at the release of ‘The Great Northern Miners’ by Ken and Jean Smith at the Mining Institute, Westgate Road, Newcastle. The band were also featured playing “Gresford” and other appropriate music on BBC Radio Newcastle, and were photographed in the Journal and Chronicle newspapers.

For more information about the book, visit Celebrating the Great Northern Miners

The band are looking for one or two bass players to assist with our entry to this year’s Whit Friday contest.

We are travelling from Newcastle, leaving at 2pm, and will be playing Senator on the stand.

The band are stopping at a very posh hotel in Leeds on the Friday night before returning Saturday after breakfast.

If anyone is interested please get in touch.

Backworth finished 12th out of 13 in this year’s 4th section of the Regional Qualification Contest.

After a strong and confident performance, the band held high hopes of a decent finish, but adjudicator Colin Hardy decided to isolate and criticise the performance of one individual member of the band and mark the band accordingly, rather than listen to the performance of the other 26 members and judge the performance as a whole.

This is a bitterly disappointing pill for the band to swallow - but the band now looks forward to a busy summer concert programme and contests at Barnard Castle, Kirkby Lonsdale and Newbiggin, where it is hoped the adjudicator will listen to all of the members of the band instead of just one.