Langley Band has been part of Midlands musical life since 1878 — one of the oldest brass banding organisations in the country. We have always maintained our headquarters in Langley, at the heart of the industrial area commonly known as ‘The Black Country’, and never more than a few yards from the first rehearsal room!
Today, “Langley Band” is more than a single ensemble. We’re an organisation built around two bands, each with its own character and purpose:
- Langley Band — our Championship Section contesting band, conducted by Dr Brett Baker, carrying forward over 148 years of musical excellence.
- Langley Community Brass — our open-access community band, conducted by Saphran Ali, welcoming players of all ages and abilities for relaxed, fortnightly music-making.
Whatever your connection to us — as a listener, a promoter, a player, or someone curious about picking up an instrument for the first time — there’s a place for you at Langley Band.
We are entirely self-supporting, relying on concert fees, recordings, donations, and members’ subscriptions. Our members give their own time, rehearsing week in, week out, purely for the love of making music together and sharing it with our community.
Between our two bands, we perform across the Black Country and West Midlands and the UK, host our own concert series at the Barlow Theatre in Langley, and have taken our sound overseas to Germany and Belgium. Over the decades we’ve broadcast on the BBC’s Listen to the Band, appeared on television, and recorded across LP, cassette, and CD.
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