Our free exhibition PLAYING FOR CAMBORNE is now open at Heartlands, Pool.  Just over 100 years ago, a group of brave tin miners from Dolcoath set off to the Western Front after war broke out. In August 2018, 100 years on from the end of the war, Camborne Youth Band followed in their footsteps and […]

A snapshot of Camborne Youth Band’s recent visit to Estaires, northern France.  Here’s a video of the Band presenting the rugby ball, then playing by the war memorial. And here playing in the local park.  Estaires communications wizard Tony Haverland made these two short films which caught a flavour of the day.  The Band was following in the footsteps of […]

Our series of three free poetry workshops in Hayle, Cornwall, got off to a great start on Saturday (8 September 2018) at Phillack Church. The workshops, led by local author Jenny Alexander, are creating poetry to be read in November to mark the centenary of the end of World War One. Phillack Church was a tranquil and inspiring […]

A truly emotional – and wonderful – occasion. Camborne Youth Band played at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, tonight to an audience of hundreds.  Ambassadors for Cornwall’s youth and for Brass Bands everywhere.  We remembered the millions who died in World War One. The Band was following in the footsteps of Cornish miners from Dolcoath […]

BBC Cornwall’s Donna Birrell featured Camborne Youth Band’s historic trip to France and Belgium over August 2018 Bank Holiday weekend. PC Dave Wilton of Camborne laid a wreath on the grave of Thomas Penhorwood, a Newquay policeman in the Royal Army Medical Corps who was shot in the head collecting wounded from No Man’s Land […]