The band's ethos is essentially one of a large group of friends meeting to rehearse and perform music for the pleasure of doing so, often meeting socially after rehearsals and on other occasions. Band members also form informal groups to play chamber music in each other's homes.

The band has a wide and varied repertoire which it continues to broaden and expand, embracing styles ranging from jazz to classical music from the shows as well as works and arrangements made especially for the band.

Hitchin Concert Band performs locally twice a year and toured Sussex for three successive summers, performing on Eastbourne Bandstand as well as Brighton Pavilion Gardens and Hastings. The band has toured Catalonia and Tuscany, performing in several prestigious venues. We also performed on three bandstands in Paris in 2007, 2008 and 2010. A further Spanish tour is proposed.

Concerts include an apprearance at the Gordon Craig Theatre as part of the Stevenage Festival which also featured the Kingshott School Band. The band also performed at a fund raising event at Cockhampstead near Braughing in support of the Leukaemia Society which raised £1,245 for leukaemia research. In 2010 Hitchin Concert Band was honoured to appear in St Mary's Church as part of the Benslow's 80th birthday celebrations.