HONLEY Male Voice Choir and the Lindley Band team up again next month for a concert in which they both have two aims in mind – raising much needed cash and recruitment.

The Honley men hope to recruit at least another 15 members to bring their strength up to 75 in time for their 75th anniversary celebrations in 2011. They also want to boost their finances to help pay for events to celebrate the anniversary.

At Lindley, the aims are much the same. The band wants to attract two cornet players and a bass.

The Lindley team are already old hands at fund-raising. They raised around £160,000 (without help from the Arts Council or the National Lottery) for the extension and improvements to their band headquarters which opened in June.

They now need to replace some of the band’s instruments which are 20 years old. The band has already earmarked the fee that it gets from its concert with Honley at St Paul’s hall in Huddersfield on September 12 (7.15pm) for just that project.

The concert is called September Song and will reunite a combination of musicians and singers who have shared the platform at the Concert on the Hill every summer for the last 10 years.

It is five years since they have appeared together in a concert hall. Next month’s reunion concert was scheduled for Huddersfield Town Hall. But the venue has been switched because of continuing work at the town’s major concert venue.

The band will be led by Neil Jowett who has conducted the Lindley musicians since 1982.

Considerably newer in post is Keith Roberts who took on conducting duties with the Honley choir alongside Sue Ogden as accompanist in January.

Both groups will present varied programmes of popular music and the choir will sing a new arrangement by Keith – his first for the choir – of the spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.

Tickets are £8 from Huddersfield tourist information office or from Malcolm Wilson on 661005.