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Our band formed on the 10th September 2000 and a small bit of history is as follows:
Three years before the band formed a bunch of Mossley residents got together to show their support for the orangemen at drumcree. A few of the men had been in flute bands before so they decided to parade around the Old Mossley estate. They had one side drummer, one bass drummer and four fluters, they might not have been large in numbers but they played their hearts out.

In the days following the 12th a few of them got together and decided to try and start a band, they had talked about it in previous years but for one reason or another they never got around to starting it. Old Mossley did not have a band for years.

We went onto buy Pearl Side Drums and Clifferd Red Flutes. In 2002 we reached something none of the band expected, 12 drums and 35 fluters on parade in the Belfast 12th, something we can be proud of.

We have paraded everywhere across UIster and also in Scotland. Our most active seasons we attended staggering amounts of parades to support every band we could,some weekends we attended up to 5 parades (4 in one day). Again something we can be proud of.

We recentley purchased Andantes, replacing our old Pearls and also with a new Uniform, new members and Glasgow again in our sights for 2008 we have a great future to look forward to. Numbers arent as great as recent years but we are small in numbers and big in heart, and it will not deter what the men and women of the Crown Defenders Mossley want to acheive.

Our FULL history can be found on the following link - http://www.crowndefenders.com/v1/ban...