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Black Dyke Band

Black Dyke Band

Black Dyke Band, formerly John Foster & Son Black Dyke Mills Band, is one of the oldest and best-known brass bands in the world. It originated as multiple community bands founded by John Foster at his family's textile mill in Queensbury, West Yorkshire in the mid-19th century. The ensemble has become prominent in competitive band championships and through recordings for film and television.

The band is well-known for recording the soundtrack to the BBC gardening makeover series Ground Force in 1997, and appeared in the Christmas edition of Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies in 1999. In 1999 they played on the Academy Award-nominated song "That'll Do" from Babe: Pig in the City.

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Recording of the Week, Festive Rutter from the Black Dyke Band and Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus

The soundworlds of the brass band and the massed chorus combine in a glorious celebration of the Christmas music of John Rutter.

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