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In the early nineties Yorkshire Building Society started sponsoring the band and the name changed into Yorkshire Building Society Band. In 2004, however, the sponsorship ended and the band changed its name to YBS Band. There was a growing mood to change the name, and therefore the name was changed in January 2009 into "Hammonds Saltaire Band".
Concerts with other well-known choirs and bands have proved to be very popular and guest performers have included the British Steel Band, The Best of British Jazz, Yorkshire Building Society Band, London Welsh Male Voice Choir, Morriston Male Voice Choir, The Leo Solomon Trio and Male Voice Choirs from the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden.
Number of employees. 3,117 (2022) 3,249 (2021) Website. Official website. Yorkshire Building Society is the third largest building society in the UK, [ 3] with its headquarters in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is a member of the Building Societies Association. At December 2023, the Society had total assets of more than £60 billion.
Ian Bousfield. Ian Bousfield (born 16 February 1964, York, England) is an English musician who has held positions as Principal Trombone with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra. Also a pedagogue, Bousfield is an instructor in the music division at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern, Switzerland.
Kenneth Downie is a composer of brass band music. He was born in Glasgow in 1946 and educated at Greenock High School, the Royal Manchester College of Music and Durham University. He then became a specialist music teacher in schools before leaving his position as Head of Music at Poole Grammar School to go into the jewellery business in 1976.
Huddersfield Choral Society is a choir based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.It was founded in 1836, and is recognised as one of Britain's leading choirs. [1] Over the years the choir has performed most of the major works in the choral repertoire, and has had numerous works commissioned for it, including works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and William Walton. [2]
Northern Rock. Northern Rock, formerly the Northern Rock Building Society, was a British bank. Based at Regent Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Northern Rock was originally a building society. It demutualised and became Northern Rock bank in 1997, when it floated on the London Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol NRK.
Ruth Copeland, soul and blues singer. Susan Maughan [ 18] Darlington. Vic Reeves (as in Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - see Middlesbrough) [ 19] We Start Fires [ 20] Dewsbury. Bob Hardy (bassist from Franz Ferdinand) [ 21] Joel Graham (bassist from Evile) Doncaster.