Coleford Town Council

18/06/2026

👀What's on at your local Studio Cinema in Coleford? 🍿

🎥Listings for this week

📆Friday 19th June - Thursday 25th June

17/06/2026

Last Thursday

Vintage Americana Merchants 'Ponchartrain'

📆 25th June 2026
⏰ 8pm
📍 Evergreen Hall, Broadwell

15/06/2026

Bells Field & Skatepark, Coleford – Entrance Gates Update

We wanted to give residents and visitors an update regarding the entrance gates at Bells Field.

We're pleased to confirm that repair works are scheduled to take place on Wednesday the 25th and Thursday 26th of June.
New signage will also be installed, to help avoid any confusion in future.

Thank you for your patience while this has been arranged.

Coleford Town Council

15/06/2026

14/06/2026

Now that the last signs are down, chairs returned and all vans emptied, we would like to say a very big thank you to all who supported yesterday's Coleford Festival of Brass.

Particular thanks to Gloucestershire Brass Band Association, Robert Morgan, Ian Ford and all of the committee and stewards, to Dave Drury from Dean Radio, Nicky Holloway, Neal Harden and Gill for all of their support.

Also a huge thank you to our 9 Forest of Dean Brass Bands and to guest conductor Philip Harper.

Parkend Silver Band
Forest of Dean Brass
Lydbrook Band
Bream Silver Band
Berry Hill Silver Band
Cinderford Band & Academy Band
Pillowell Silver Band
A W Parker Drybrook
Lydney Town Band

And to our hosts Coleford Baptist Church.

A final thanks to Portable Welfare Ltd for generously loaning the pink tardis for the event.

Please provisiinally save the date of Saturday 12th June 2027 for round 3!

A fantastic total of £499 (plus £5 online) was collected for the Coleford Music Festival
- thabks to everyone who contributed.

13/06/2026

Fantastic start to the Coleford Festival of Brass.

Gloucestershire Brass Band Association

12/06/2026

👀What's on at your local Studio Cinema in Coleford? 🍿

🎥Listings for this week

📆Friday 12th June - Thursday 18th June

12/06/2026

Just one more sleep until this years Coleford Festival of Brass in Coleford Town Centre and the Baptist Church.

17 performances followed by a mass band performance that will hopefully include members from all 9 Forest of Dean Brass and Silver bands.

Free Parking in all Forest of Dean District Council car parks.

Performances from 12 noon - Saturday 13th June.

A W Parker Drybrook
Berry Hill Silver Band
Bream Silver Band
Cinderford Band & Academy Band
Forest of Dean Brass
Lydney Town Band
Lydbrook Band
Parkend Silver Band
Pillowell Silver Band
Gloucestershire Brass Band Association

11/06/2026

Our final announcement for this years Coleford Festival of Brass!

Immediately following the 17 individual performances across the two venues of Coleford Clock Tower and Coleford Baptist Church, there will be a massed band performance on the Clock Tower stage featuring members from as many of the 9 Forest of Dean bands as possible, under the musical direction of Philip Harper.

"Philip Harper became Musical Director of the Cory Band in 2012. Since then he has won all the major trophies many times, including an unprecedented Grand Slam of major titles in 2016, repeated in 2019: the European, the British Open, the Nationals and Brass in Concert, all won in a single calendar year. Philip won the coveted 4barsrest.com Conductor of the Year Award in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020. In recent years he was a guest conductor of the Manger Musikklag Band in Norway, the National Youth Brass Bands of Great Britain, Switzerland, Wales and The Netherlands, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Symphonic Brass, amongst many others. In 2021 he was awarded the Iles Medal by the Worshipful Company of Musicians for his services to brass bands, and in 2023 was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

A resident of Gloucester, Philip was the Editor of Brass Band World magazine between 2009 and 2015 and, since 2005 has been the Music Editor of the historic Wright and Round publishing company.

Philip is a prolific composer and his original works and arrangements are played all over the world. In 2016 he composed A Shakespearean Triptych for a 650-strong joint ensemble and choir conducting the first performance in a packed Royal Albert Hall at the Last Night of the Schools Prom."

The mass band performance is at 730pm.

10/06/2026

Our final band introduction for this years Coleford Festival of Brass is Forest of Dean Brass who will perform on the Clock Tower stage at 1:40pm and in Coleford Baptist Church at 3pm.

"Under the leadership of our Musical Director, Martyn Patterson, Forest of Dean Brass Band is a First-Section competing brass band based in the village of Yorkley, Gloucestershire, rehearsing twice weekly on Monday and Thursday, 7.45pm–9.45pm.

The band was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of two bands — Yorkley Onward Band and Coleford Town Band.

The band plays a wide variety of music — from classical to contemporary — and aims to serve both as a competitive contesting band and as a community band available for concerts, celebrations and events in the Forest of Dean region and beyond. Their versatility means they may perform traditional brass-band fare but also more accessible and contemporary pieces when playing for concerts or community events.

The band is once again very much looking forward to being part of the Coleford Festival of Brass 2026."