Buckhaven and Methill Brass Band

Supported by the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council, Buckhaven and Methil Brass Band was awarded £24,000 in April 2004 towards the cost of purchasing a new set of instruments. Their current instrument stock was limiting the quality of their performances and also their ability to expand, particularly into the youth sector.

The band is well established with a long history of Brass Band history.  Buckhaven and Methil Miners Brass Band (formerly Buckhaven Town Band) was founded in 1905 and amalgamated with Wellesley Colliery in 1976. It then became Buckhaven and Methil Miners Brass Band and is based within the Fife region.

The band’s aim is to ‘advance the education of the public  by promoting and encouraging brass band music, to benefit the community through public performances and displays, to retain the heritage of the miners brass bands through providing free tuition and use of instruments to members.’

The Band is based within a socially deprived area of Fife with low incomes and youth problems.

The Band wish to try and address some of the areas’ problems by providing free tuition to the children and young people in the area.  To help them achieve this they are working with schools to target children who are interested in learning to play.

Supported by the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council.