Complete timeline of events over the first 40 years
The 1980s
| 1980 – 1981 | The first Corsham School Windband is formed by Sonia Blandford using brass instruments found locked in a cupboard and a few woodwind players who could string together a tune. | |
| 1980s – 2000s | Regular performances at the annual Christmas Concert at the Royal British Legion, Corsham. | |
| 1981 | Spring term – first performance of the Corsham School Windband at Assembly in the Lower School Hall. | |
| October 1981 | The Windband’s first tour to Darfield Foulstone in Yorkshire. | |
| December 1981 | Corsham School Windband plays carols in Corsham High Street | |
| 1982 | Corsham School windband plays in Corsham High Street. | |
| 1981 – 1991 | Box Pantomine Group directed by Sonia with CWA providing music | |
| Last 1980s – 1994 | Bow Highlands School provides premises for practices and storage of instruments and equipment. | |
| 1980s | Saturday morning practices and lessons took place in the Mansion House, Corsham. | |
| 1980s – 2018 | Regular performances at the band stand in Bath Parade Gardens. | |
| 1982 | Performance at the Twinning Ceremony with the Corsham Fire Brigade. | |
| April 1982 | First trip to Corsham’s twin town of Jargeau to celebrate the Twinning. | |
| 1983 – 2019 | Regular busking in the streets of Bath. | |
| February 1983 | Trip to Corsham’s twin town of Jargeau. | |
| 1984 | The Schwäbisch Gmünder Jugendkapelle e.V hosts the School Windband | |
| 1984 | The School Windband performs at Corsham Fire Station’s Annual Fête. | |
| August 1984 | The School WIndband takes part in and marches at Melksham Carnival. | |
| 1985 | The Windband wins the Devizes Music Festival | |
| 1985 - | The CWA starts practicing in the west wing of Corsham Court. | |
| 1985 | Youth Concert Band is formed shortly after the WIndband Association became independent of the Corsham School. | |
| March 1985 | Training band trip to Jargeau. | |
| 1985 | The Schwäbisch Gmünder Jugendkapelle e.V hosts Youth Concert Band. | |
| 1986 | First trip to Mandal in Norway including a performance at the King of Norway’s Summer House. | |
| 1986 | Performance at Covent Garden, London, as part of the National Festival of Music for Youth. | |
| 1986 | Performance at the Royal festival Hall at the National Festival of Music for Youth. | |
| 1987 | CWA hosts the Mandal Guttekorps band. | |
| 1987 | Performance by 100 musicians of the Association on HTV’s Good Neighbours Show Christmas Special. | |
| 1988 | Brentford School hosts the Windband as part of the national “Arts in Schools” project. |
The 1990s
| 1990 | The windband performs the National Anthem for the Queen at the re-opening of the Kennet and Avon Canal. | |
| 1990 | The Schwäbisch Gmünder Jugendkapelle hosts Youth Concert Band. | |
| 1992 | Performance at the Welsh National Garden Festival in Ebbw Vale. | |
| 1993 | Concert at Beamish Museum on outward to trip to Norway (Mandal) | |
| 1993 | Trip to Mandal in Norway. | |
| 1994 | Corsham Windband Association forms Pounds Arts Centre in the former Corsham County Primary School building. | |
| 1994 | Trip to Cologne | |
| 1996 | Performance at the Royal festival Hall at the National Festival of Music for Youth. | |
| 1996 | CWA takes part in the world’s largest orchestra event held at Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Stadium. | |
| 1996 | Trip the International Windband Festival in Strasbourg, France. | |
| 1997 – 2001 | Oxford Brookes University hosts the windband to perform at the Annual International Masters Summer School. | |
| 1997 | Performance of Fanfare and Soliloquy at the Royal Northern College of Music. | |
| 1998 | Performance at Glasgow Garden Festival | |
| 1998 | Youth Concert Band performs at the Royal Northern College of Music gaining a silver medal. | |
| 1998 | CWA takes part in the world’s largest orchestra event held at Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Stadium with the participation of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. |
The 2000s
| 2000 | Trip the International Windband Festival in Strasbourg, France. | |
| 2001 | The CWA hosts Aurora High School, a group from Ontario. | |
| 2001 | 20th anniversary : preparation of a CD – 200 members
Celebratory ball at Grittleton House |
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| 2004 | Practice weekend for Training Band at Braeside, Devizes | |
| 2007 | Spectrum Band performs at the Royal Northern College of Music gaining a silver medal. | |
| 2008 | Spectrum band visit to Barcelona | |
| 2008 | Youth Concert Band performs at the Royal Northern College of Music. |
The 2010s
| 2010 | Practice weekend for Training Band at Braeside, Devizes | |
| 2010 | Youth Concert Band and Spectrum Band perform at the Royal Northern College of Music gaining silver medals. | |
| 2011 | 30th anniversary celebrations in Corsham.
Several past players performed solos at the Pounds Arts Centre (Fanfare for Success concert) |
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| 2011 | Corsham Windband Association plays in Corsham High Street | |
| 2014 | Trip to Strasbourg – Performance at the Council of Europe | |
| 2016 | Youth Concert Band takes part in the Mid-Somerset Festival performing an original piece called “Telomere” composed by Nicholas Peters, the Composer in Residence at the Pound Arts Centre. | |
| 2019 | CWA performs at Corsham Fun Run |
The 2020s
| 2020 | CWA performs at the Mid Somerset Festival playing Ed Horton’s “All Together Now” | |
| 2021 | YCB performs as “house band” for BBC Radio Wiltshire on Christmas Day | |
| 2023 | February - 5-day visit by the CWA to Strasbourg, France. | |
| 2024 | February – planned visit by the CWA to Jargeau, France. |