Wardle Anderson Brass

Lindsay Marson - Soprano

Age started playing: 7
First band: Smithy Bridge Primary School
Other bands: Wardle School, Youth and Big Bands
Year started with Anderson Brass: 2004
Other info: Giggles a lot!! One of her highlights was recently playing a duet with Rhiannon at the Royal Albert Hall! Her big sister is Abi on Solo Horn

Chris Whitehead - Repiano

Chris is also a member of the School Band and is brother to percussionist Mark.

More details to follow asap. I couldn't remember which of these two photos was the most recent so I put them both up!!

Chris Clough - 2nd

Age started playing: 6
First band: St John's Primary School
Other bands: Wardle School and Youth Bands
Year started with Anderson Brass: 1990 and 2004
Other info: Chris, in his own words, is 'mad as a box of frogs' and you'd be hard pushed to find anyone to disagree with him! Chris was also a founder member of the band and returned in 2004 after a few years off to polish his drinking skills!! He is one of the two new dads from our quartet of babies in 2005/6 and is now married to Angela, our 1st Horn player.

Chris is also pictured here to the right as a young fresh-faced tuba player - I think from his first year at Wardle High School. Notice they still only had black and white cameras in those days!!

Laura Emsley - 2nd

Laura joined the band towards the end of 2006 and she is also a member of the school band.

Further details to follow!

Steph Bowyer - 3rd

Steph is the youngest member of the band and is in the school's intermediate band.

Steph joined us in October 2007.

Further details to follow

Annette Whitehead - 3rd

Age started playing: 13
First band: Wardle High School
Other bands: Wardle School, Youth and Wind Bands
Year started with Anderson Brass: 2003
Other info: Annette also had a break before joining us - almost as long as Lee at 18 years. Whilst at school, she appeared in several TV shows, appearing with Roy Castle and Don Lusher. Her band appeared at the school proms 3 times and she was also involved in producing 2 records with the band. Her daughter Liesel is one of our Solo Cornets.