Easington Colliery Band win “Performance of the Year Award”

Easington Colliery Band recently won the Performance of the Year category in the North East Culture Awards 2022 for their role in this year’s Durham BRASS festival.

Firm As A Rock We Stand, described as the highlight of the festival, (co-commission with Durham Miners’ Association and Redhills CIO) was the haunting and extraordinary performance in Durham Cathedral by LYR (poet laureate Simon Armitage, singer-songwriter Richard Walters, multi-instrumentalist Patrick Pearson), conductor/composer Simon Dobson and Easington Colliery Band. Through words, poetry and music they recalled the struggle of County Durham’s condemned “Category D” villages.

Band Manager, Peter Lawson, attended the awards evening at Durham Cathedral and was delighted to receive the award on stage and had this to say about the event “LYR and Easington Colliery Band gave a breath-taking performance but had difficult competition from other amazing shortlisted performances, so we are delighted with this outcome. Thank you to everyone who attended the performance and gave such positive feedback”