Chacewater is a village and civil parish approximately 3 miles east of Redruth
Circa 1842: Chacewater Amateur Brass Band formed. (John Brush)
1843: A taste for music no more or better displayed than in the village of Chacewater where an Amateur Band has been lately established and has succeeded admirably. (WB 28th April 1843)
1854: Chacewater Amateur Brass Band… (22 September 1854 – Royal Cornwall Gazette)
1856: Chacewater Band at the ceremony of laying the stone. (23 May 1856 – Royal Cornwall Gazette)
1861/62: Chacewater and St Day Bands at Mount Hawke Band of Hope Tea-treat. (Ashley Rowe – The Chapel at Mount Hawke – Journal of the St Agnes Museum Trust)
1863: Chacewater, Forest Gate Illogan, St Day and the Redruth Volunteers. (Page 57 of Tehidy and the Bassetts by Michael Tangye)
1860s: Chacewater Band contesting under J Moyle. (Contest archive)
1871: Chacewater Brass Band at Tregullow and Scorrier. (1 July 1871 – Royal Cornwall Gazette)
1872: Chacewater Band discoursed some capital music during the day. (2 March 1872 – Royal Cornwall Gazette)
1879: Chacewater Band, under the leadership of Mr H Ball, … (15 August 1879 – Royal Cornwall Gazette)
1898: Chacewater string and Brass Band, under the leadership of Mr F Moyle. (10 March 1898 – Royal Cornwall Gazette)
1912: Chacewater Fife and Drum Band formed. (Carharrack and St Day 65th Anniversary book)
1912 – 23rd May: Chacewater Fife and Drum Band played its first concert. (Phillip Hunt from Cornish Studies Library archives)
Chacewater Fife & Drum Band
1912: Chacewater Band, under the conductorship of Mr J Lennon. (27 June 1912 – West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser)
Unknown closure date.
Compiled by Tony Mansell (Bardh Kernow)
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