Mike started his musical career when he began playing the tenor Horn with the Delph Band aged 8, progressing to solo euphonium five years later. Aged fifteen, on the recommendation of Geoff Whitham, he joined the legendary CWS Manchester Band led by the great conductor and teacher Alex Mortimer. During his long playing career, he has been principal euphonium of Yorkshire Imperial Metals, Leyland DAF, Fairey Band, Grimethorpe Colliery, Brighouse and Rastrick, Desford Colliery, and YBS. He has ap

Paul Beaumont learned to play the cornet at school and was a member of the Hammonds Sauce Works Junior Band from being 11 years old; his sister Lynn was a horn player in the same band. From Hammonds he joined Yorkshire Imperial Metals, under the baton of Trevor Walmsley. In 1976 Paul married Julie, a cornet player with Mount Charles Band in Cornwall, and they both joined Hebden Bridge Band, Paul as principal cornet and Julie as soprano cornet. Paul and Julie both reluctantly stopped playing when