48 Ticket £26, £23. Concession £24, £21 | Magfest Explorer £5.
48 - Now Westlin' WInds: The Co-operation Band
June 27, 2026 at 7:30pm. Duration: 75 mins
Orkney Auction Mart, Grainshore Road, Kirkwall KW15 1FL
Katrina Marzella Wheeler Conductor
Andrew Duncan The Spirit of the North (World Premiere)
Malcolm Arnold Reel from Four Scottish Dances
Jan de Haan Mirage
Trad arr. Brendan Wheeler Now Westlin’ Winds
Errollyn Wallen Gold Saturday
Andrew Duncan Conspirators Overture
Lucy Pankhurst Sergei, the Puppet Master
Borodin (arr. Snell) Polovtsian Dances
Simon Dobson The Riot at the Rite
Lucy Pankhurst A Fake News Party at Montmartre
Monnot (arr. Duncan) Hymne à l’Amour
The Cooperation band, who sit in the top ten rankings in the world, present a whirlwind of music and a fizzing conclusion to the 50th festival in their first visit to Orkney. From traditional tunes to old masters with some brand new works thrown in, this ensemble is the finest interpreter of music for brass band in Scotland.
The Cooperation Band is a community brass band currently based in North Lanarkshire. Founded in 1918 as the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Band at the SCWS factories in Shieldhall, Glasgow, the band has a rich history and is a thriving nearly a hundred years on.