BRIGHOUSE & Rastrick Band’s ten-year collaboration with an all-female brass band will end with a fundraising concert.

The award-winning band will be joined on stage by Boobs & Brass for a massed bands performance on Saturday, March 24, from 7.15pm at Huddersfield Town Hall, Ramsden Street.

The concert, in aid of Breast Cancer Now, will mark the final time the groups meet in concert as Boobs & Brass will disband later this year.

Boobs & Brass were formed in 2006 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, to raise money for the Breast Cancer Campaign. They first performed with the Brighouse and Rastrick Band in 2008. Since then they have expanded and now have 700 women and girls on their books, aged from 12 to 73, performing in bands in Yorkshire, the Midlands and South East England.

This will be the fifth and final concert between Brighouse & Rastrick Band, who were crowned last year’s National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, and Boobs & Brass, before the ladies prepare to hang up their pink jackets for the last time having raised £229,000 so far for their chosen charity.

Joint concerts between the two bands have previously been held in Kettering, Birmingham and the last one in Huddersfield in 2014.

Ryan Watkins, principal trombone player with the Brighouse & Raistrick Band, said: “We have performed twice with them. The last time was four years ago.

“Both bands are on stage and perform at the same time. It will be a special concert.

“It’s great that we can be involved with them in their final year. We have lots of great memories performing with them.

“It should be a great concert and we will be making a large donation to the charity from the concert afterwards.”

Margaret Betts, Boobs & Brass co-founder, said: “We are very fortunate Brighouse & Raistrick have been very supportive with what we do.

“We feel very lucky we have had that relationship and honoured to be going back to do this concert in March.

“We will be taking 65 girls up to perform at the concert. Everybody wants to go to play with Brighouse.

“It has been fantastic, we have been doing something we love. We started off with 11 girls.

“The decision to stop has not been made lightly. I am very upset that we are finishing.

Boobs & Brass will perform for the final time at Lincoln Cathedral on Saturday, October 13.

To book tickets, priced between £13 and £18, to the massed bands concert, or for more information, email David Howe at d.howe881@btinternet.com, call 01484 718835, or to the Huddersfield Town Hall box office on 01484 225755. Tickets will also be available at Cleckheaton Town Hall.