Commissioned by Teesdale Bureau Ltd for The Barnard Castle Band composed by Goff Richards.
Goff was a prominent Cornish brass band arranger and composer. He was born in Cornwall on 18 August 1944, studying at the Royal College of Music and Reading University. Between 1976 and 1989, he lectured in arranging and at Salford College of Technology. He was the musical director of the Chetham's Big Band for many years. In 1976, he was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd. He received a Doctorate from Salford University in 1990, after a career that had seen him lead the University Jazz Orchestra to the BBC Big Band of the Year title in 1989. He died on 25 June 2011.