Pictured above: Highley Colliery Band at Severn Valley Railway. Engine House, Highley Station.
Highley Colliery Band recently entertained the members & shareholders of the prestigious Severn Valley Railway, at the new Engine House next to Highley Station.
The band will be back at the Engine House later this year for the SVR 40's weekends. Plans are also well under way for the bands Autumn Concert at the Severn Centre, Highley. The concert to mark the 40th year since the closure of Highley Pit will take place on Saturday September 19th 2009. Monies raised will be donated  to Highley First Responders. More news & details about the event will follow shortly.

   Band in recording collaboration.

  Members of the band recently travelled to Riverside Studios in Bath to work on backing music for singer/songwriter Roger Tarry's forthcoming second album. Anthony James explains: " Its about 12months since Seb Pecchia (Riverside) Studios contacted me with the idea of backing one of Rogers tracks with a brass band. on Saturday 21st of March four of us went down to Riverside with Instruments to start working out the backing format with Roger. we had a great day and Roger & Seb made us very welcome. The next stage involves scoring the music for the whole band, much of this work will fall on Neils shoulders and then back to the studio with Roger. This is a different path to traditional brass band work and we are very excited about the project. The brass sound works well with Rogers haunting distinctive sound.  Pictured at Riverside Studios: from left Band member Neil Venables, Roger Tarry, Seb Pecchia,band members Dave & Lisa Burge

BEST FOOT FORWARD: Several band members took part in the Annual Bridgnorth Sponsored Walk on Bank Holiday Monday 25th May to raise funds for Highley First Responders. Well done to them for finishing the whole 22 miles. Go to Fun Stuff for pictures.