Hathersage Brass Band Christmas Concert

Hathersage Brass Band takes its name from the small, North Derbyshire village of Hathersage close to the South Yorkshire border.

Hathersage Band was formed on 4th November, 1882 as the 'Hathersage United Brass Band' and early in 1883 the first fourteen new instruments were purchased from a London company at a cost of £61/4s/6d to be paid monthly at a rate of £1/5s/0d. The cost of a Cornet then was £3/3s/0d.

The band is unusual in having been in continual active existence ever since this date and has played through the two world wars when it was sustained by its older members to keep local spirits high.