On Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 and 9th November, the Sandbach School Big Band, following on from last year’s sell out concerts, will be playing host to one of the country’s leading vocalists – Matthew Ford (as seen recently on the BBC Prom 59, ‘Hooray For Hollywood’). Tickets are available from the Schools’ Pupil Reception on 01270 758873 and the main School Reception on 01270 758870 priced £8.

With the departure of ten regular band members, anticipation and expectation was high amongst the audience (totalling over 500 for the two nights) as we welcomed back the fantastic Matthew Ford to sing with the award winning Sandbach School Big Band on 9th and 10th November. They needn’t have worried! Following a horrendous rehearsal schedule [...]

For the fourth time since 2004, Sandbach School Arts took over the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh to present Drama, Music, Musical Theatre and an Art Exhibition as part of the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe.  As ever, the logistics were military in scale, working to a self-financed budget of £22,000, assembling a team of over [...]

The last music concert on home turf of the 2009/2010 season took place on 8th July when the Summer Concert drew together the collective forces of The Dingle Primary School Wind Band, the Sandbach Community Primary School Choir, many of our own school groups and concluded with the world famous Foden’s Brass Band. Playing to [...]

Once again the audience for this evening was staggered by the quality of the sound produced by our own Big Band.  Star vocalists Matthew Ford and Natalie McGrath accompanied our home grown talent of James Wilkinson and Joe Nelson in reprising some of the Las Vegas classics made famous by Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones and [...]