Smithills School Senior Band under MD Chris Wormald are to extend their long running relationship with Bolton Wanderers Football Club next month, as they appear in a special Gala Concert for the benefit of Chairman Phil Gartside, Manager Dougie Freedman and the club’s first team squad and their families.

Musical accompaniment

The band has provided musical accompaniment to the ups and downs of the club’s on pitch fortunes since the days when the team played at the old Burnden Park, although this latest performance will take place in the swish surroundings of the Premier Suite of the state of the art Reebok Stadium.

Smithills have been invited back just a year after they performed a Gala Concert in honour of Bolton player Fabrice Muamba4BR

Muamba

Smithills have been invited back just a year after they performed a Gala Concert in honour of Bolton player Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed on the pitch at Tottenham and was declared ‘dead’ for 78 minutes before making a miraculous recovery.