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Constantine is a village and civil parish approximately five miles west-southwest of Falmouth   1848: Constantine Band formed shortly after Wheal Vyvyan Mine opened. (Band website) 1857: Constantine Band mentioned. (Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser 18th July 1857) 1860: Constantine  Brass Band. (24 August 1860 – Royal Cornwall Gazette) 1862:
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Penwithick Brass Band
Penwithick or Penwithick Stents is a village 2.5 miles north of St Austell, in the civil parish of Treverbyn in the ‘clay country’ area   1919 circa: “Penwithick Band formed by some of the many bandsmen living in the St Austell area who had played in brass bands before the
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Goff Richards   Recorded by the Cornwall Youth Brass Band conducted by Richards Evans at the Tributee to Goff Richards Concert   This was Goff’s first published work of which Sir Malcolm Arnold wrote: “I think the march has clarity and energy and is of a far higher quality than is
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Goff Richards   Three Saints By Goff Richards   1996: Commissioned by The South West Brass Band Association, of which Goff was President, to mark their 50th Anniversary (Phillip Hunt)   “[Three Saints] describes three of the many saints who settled in Cornwall in times past. St Petroc, the patron
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Goff Richards     The Golden Lady By Goff Richards   Recorded by the Cornwall Youth Brass Band conducted by Dr Stephen Cobb at the 2017 Christmas Concert   Written for the Cornwall Youth Brass Band European tour of 1990.   The first public performance was in 1990 by the
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