Thursday 28 December 2017

BBW Interview: Paul Hindmarsh

VITAL LEGACY OF LABOUR AND LOVE RNCM Brass Band Festival Artistic Director, 
Paul Hindmarsh, has created an important repertoire legacy and is responsible for the only major serious performance platform for the brass band genre, as well as influences music selection
at the European Championships, for which he is Chair of the Music...read more

Thursday 28 December 2017

Let's Debate with Sandy Smith

Conductor, player and composer/arranger, Sandy Smith, debates the adjudication method and marking system for one of the UK’s entertainment contests - Brass in Concert, compares it with Norway’s SIDDIS version and argues for a more holistic approach at the former As we come towards the end of the year and look back...read more

Monday 20 November 2017

BBW Centre Band – Tales of the North Sea

Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag has just added to its Triple Crown of the Norwegian National, the European and SIDDIS, by taking the Brass in Concert title, performing its SIDDIS winning programme, Tales of the North Sea. Read more about the most successful band of 2017... Read this article in full, featured in November 2017’s...read more

Thursday 16 November 2017

Voice from the Past: James Watson

The fascinating transcript of a previously unpublished interview with the late trumpeter, conductor and educator of international repute, James Watson, by Lisa Fitzgerald-Lombard. Read this article in full, featured in November 2017’s BBW, by subscribing to BBW Digital. Alternatively, subscribe to the printed magazine delivered by post: £40 (UK); £68 (Europe); £81...read more

Thursday 16 November 2017

BBW’s CD Awards 2017

The time has arrive for BBW’s red-carpet CD of the Year accolades - who has won the Band and Solo CD of the Year Awards and who has grabbed a BBW ‘out of the ‘box’ award from our eminent judging panels of, for Band, Christopher Thomas, Florent Didier, Michael Fowles and...read more

Thursday 16 November 2017

‘Who are we to judge?’

Harmen Vanhoorne and Stan Nieuwenhuis have just held a very special launch of Harmen’s new crossover pop CD, doux - Ellis Island, inspired by photographs taken by Augustus Sherman from 1892 and 1854, when Sherman was Chief Clerk of Ellis Island, New York - an inspection station for millions of immigrants...read more

Thursday 16 November 2017

New European Order Heads for Utrecht

Brass Band De Wâldsang reclaimed the title of Dutch National Champion for the first time since 2009; something of a surprise occurred in the Austrian National Championships as a delighted Fröschl Hall beat back the pre-contest favourites to claim the band’s first-ever victory at the competition; Concord retained the Danish National...read more


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