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Thursday 29 February 2024

ODBBA Winter Contest Success

23 bands recently took the opportunity to test their preparations for potential London and Cheltenham qualification at the excellently organised Oxfordshire & District Brass Band Associations annual Winter Contest. Held over two days at Cokethorpe School, adjudicator Paul Norley "thoroughly enjoyed" and was "highly encouraged" by the standard. Verwood Concert Brass certainly...read more

Thursday 29 February 2024

NEMBBA 2024

There was an excellent turn out of bands that added to a wonderful atmosphere of inclusion at the annual North East Midlands Brass Band Association (NEMBBA) contest earlier this month. Expanded to a two-day event at the Post Mill Centre in South Normanton, it saw 30 bands and ensembles perform, including...read more

Thursday 29 February 2024

Lochgelly's Anniversary Expansion Plans

Now in its 170th anniversary year, Lochgelly Band is extending its organisation with the addition of two new musical groups. With the slogan of ‘honouring the past, celebrating the present and looking forward to the future’, the band will be launching Lochgelly Community Brass and the Central Scotland Percussion Ensemble. Lochgelly Community...read more

Thursday 29 February 2024

Bathgate Steelyard Challenge

The inaugural Bathgate Steelyard Challenge will take place on Saturday 25 May, promising ‘a unique blend of entertainment, competition and camaraderie’ in a new contesting format. The competition will see the transformation of the West Lothian town’s George Street and the Steelyard into a vibrant stage for brass bands and community...read more

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Highland Brass enjoys successful 10th Anniversary Year

Highland Brass is riding high and looking forward to its competitive foray into the Third Section next month after a successful 2023, the band’s 10th anniversary year. After winning the Fourth Section in last year’s Scottish Championships, the band went on a huge fundraising campaign to enable them make the 500-mile...read more

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Foden’s achieve Eighth Successive Title in Blackpool

Congratulations to Foden’s and the band’s MD Russell Gray on securing an impressive eighth North West Regional win in a row. The band gave a superb performance of Philip Sparke's set-work ‘Variations on an Enigma’, at this first regional contest of the year, giving adjudicators Alan Morrison and Anne Crookston little...read more

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Proms in the Playground Returns

The Brass Bands England (BBE) #PromsInThePlayground initiative is set to return this summer, spanning the last three weeks of the school term from 8 - 26 July. The scheme aims to connect brass bands with schools, creating mutually beneficial relationships to get young people excited about brass banding, by encouraging and...read more