Name: Yarwell & Nassington Britannia Band
Start: 2026-02-09T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Minster Precincts, PE1 1XS Peterborough, United Kingdom

The Yarwell and Nassington Britannia Band performs an entertaining programme of well-loved brass band classics, including tunes from the large and small screen, traditional marches and hymn tunes. Tunes that you will know and love.

The band comprises of a group of players of all ages. We are particularly proud of our younger members, 5 are currently in the National Children’s Brass Band. Others have gone on to play for the top bands in the country including Black Dyke and Corey.

The bands musical director, John Hudson, joined the band in 2017 having played with both Grimethorpe Colliery Band and the John Fosters Black Dyke Band.

The present-day band comprises of a group of like-minded brass players of all ages, who meet weekly to make great music and have fun doing it. We perform in a range of settings, from churches to village fetes, and are proud to represent the two villages in our name in the local area. The membership is eclectic, drawing from young and old, female and male, of all classes and backgrounds. Others have moved on to play with many of the top bands in the country, including Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Flowers and Corey.

The roots of the band go back to the mid-19th century – 1847. Therefore, we can claim to be one of the oldest bands in the country. The exact origins of the band, including the founder members, are lost in the mists of time. There is no written contemporary record, but that is hardly surprising since few village folk in the early 1800s would have been able to read and write. But what is known is that the band was playing at Elton Station to mark the homecoming of local soldiers returning from the Crimea War (1853-56). Elton Station, on the Nene Valley line between Peterborough and Northampton.”