Cheddar Valley Music Club
About us Cheddar Valley Music Club
The Cheddar Valley Music Club has been running in various formats for nearly 50 years and takes place at Fairland’s Middle School in Cheddar on a Wednesday of each week during term time.
There are several different brass ensembles including a Training Band and Brass Band.
3:50pm – 4:35pm – Training Band (standard grades 0-3)
4:45pm – 5:45pm – Brass Band (standard grade 3+)
5:45pm – 6:30pm – Brass Ensemble (standard grade 5+)
The cost per term (10 weeks) to take part is £34 per member, additional siblings £26
For more information on joining please email somersetmusic@somerset.gov.uk
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Anne Higgs – Celebration of Life Concert
This was a wonderful tribute to Anne and would have made her so proud. Thank you so much to the amazing band members who played so well. We are very grateful to Sam Kail Dyke for stepping in at such sudden notice and thank him for doing such a brilliant job. We hope you are all aware that a recording of this is available on YouTube. Thank you to Sarah Alsop at Somerset Music for organising this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-3nMIiG2M . There are also more copies of the orders of service available from Margarite Strang (church warden at St. Andrew’s Church). We are so grateful to everyone who helped on the day and special thanks must go to Zoe Amey and her sister Kim for their wonderful catering.
Just Giving Site
The Just Giving site for donations to Cheddar Valley Music Club will remain open until the end of the summer term. We have raised over £2,000 so far.
https://edge.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/cvmc
Anne Higgs Award
Fairlands Middle School will be initiating the “Anne Higgs Award” for contribution to Music at an awards evening at 5.30pm on July 9th. The school also plans to rename its music room in Anne’s honour for the start of the Autumn Term.
Jon Hopes
We are delighted that Jon Hopes (a former pupil of Anne) is now directing the band. He is doing a fantastic job and we are so grateful to him for rearranging his busy schedule to allow him to run band rehearsals every Wednesday. Thank you so much Jon for all you are doing. Please see Jon’s website to learn more about him. Cheddar Valley Music Club are very lucky! https://www.jonhopes.com/about
Committee members for Cheddar Valley Music Club
Cheddar Valley Music Club committee was formed by Anne to help with concerts and instrument hire. At present we only have four members and would like to invite parents of existing band members to join the committee. This involves only about three meetings/year and helping organise concerts. It would be wonderful to have some fresh members as the present members have been doing this for over 10 years. Please contact Katie Bishop by email if you feel you can help katiehbishop1@gmail.com
Cheddar Valley Music Club Dates 2025-26 (to be added) Cheddar Valley Music Club Membership Form 2025-26 (to be added) Cheddar Valley Music Club update 16-06-25Phone us on 0300 1237364 or send us a message