Midsummer Music

   Oldbury-Smethwick   

About   Oldbury-Smethwick  where our live musicians perform

   Covering Party Bands, String Quartets, Barn Dance / Ceilidh and Jazz   

Towns, cities and regions, such as   Oldbury-Smethwick  have an influence on the style of music, whether it is the 'English Countryside' feel of Vaughan Williams, the strength of Elgar's Victorian Malvern, or the skirl of Northumbrian Pipe tune.

About  Oldbury-Smethwick   

Smethwick was a small South Staffordshire hamlet which grew rapidly during the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. By the middle of Queen Victoria's reign it was an important manufacturing town. In the West Midlands, metalworking, especially nail making, dates from the European Middle Ages. Coal was mined in the 13th century and Iron smelted from its ores. The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries changed the rural landscape and brought wealth and prosperity to some, but for most workers and labourers in the factories and foundries life was often hard. They worked long hours at heavy work to make an adequate living. By the first quarter of the twentieth century working and living conditions had much improved for many working people

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