In January 1878 the Municipal Corporation agreed as Royal Festival on 23, 24 and 25 January to solemnize the marriage of His Majesty the King with Maria de las Mercedes and to solemnize the act , it was decided that the band scour the streets population .

In the early twentieth century , the director of the Musical Association of Ceuta is Joaquin Alfonso Valero and in later years Julián López Ortiz who died in October 1928. From this date and during the following years , Ceuta lacks Municipal band music, so you have to hire other bands for municipal parties and other events, including being contracted to Guadalupe Band , Band mercy Band of Sevilla Artillery Regiment No 33 Almoradí Band , Band of the Red Cross , Band Beniaján, etc. .

You will need to get the month of September 1948, when Rodrigo García Abenza , over the remains of the municipal band was done . In the home of one of the musicians from that old band began rehearsals and classes.

The band during these years, was quoted by the press of Murcia , Cartagena , Madrid, and in the Catalan newspapers , recounting the memorable concert of August 30, 1956 in Sabadell City boardwalk . Band of Ceuta and the Ministry of Education and Science , was declared of Artistic and Cultural and gave Ceuta overcome a difficult category . Noteworthy would be in charge of the Extraordinary Fernández Caballero Concert Choir and the Band of Ceuta, on August 11, 1957 , in Ceuta, to raise funds for the construction of the new parish church.

In November 1960 the " musical group of Ceuta " is in a precarious situation , barely surviving . In 1964 the band director Rodrigo Garcia directing Abenza march band music Bogarra (Albacete ) .