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Thursday 28 April 2022

Nominate now for the BBE Outstanding Contribution Award

With nominations for the 2022 Brass Bands England Awards due to close in just a couple of weeks, make sure you cast your vote for one of the most popular award categories - the Outstanding Contribution Award. The Outstanding Contribution Award is intended for an individual who has made an...read more

Thursday 28 April 2022

Instrument donations for Brass Foundations

A new music education initiative is taking Gloucestershire schools by storm and has seen communities come together to make it happen for the benefit of our county’s young musicians. The Brass Foundations programmes brings live music-making into schools in the form of free of charge brass workshops, providing children with the...read more

Thursday 28 April 2022

Whitburn wins Fife Brass Band Festival

The Scottish Champion claimed a convincing win ahead of their Grand Shield appearance at the Fife Brass Band Festival title at Dunfermline's Carnegie Hall on the weekend. Championship colleagues Kingdom Brass finished 3 points adrift in second place, with Scottish First Section champion Bo'ness & Carriden coming in third. Whitburn...read more

Thursday 28 April 2022

Kirkintilloch Senior Cup Preview

The Kirkintilloch Band are happy to announce an open rehearsal on Wednesday May 4 conducted by Steven Mead, to be held at: Glasgow City Centre Salvation Army, 1 Houldsworth Street, Glasgow G3 8ED 7.30pm start. Free admission The band have been enjoying their preparations for their performance of Freedom by Hubert Bath...read more

Monday 25 April 2022

NYBBGB ‘Splits the Air’ at New Music Biennial

The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain followed its recent Easter Course in Harrogate with an atmospheric and musically mature performance of Martin Green’s ‘Split the Air’ at Coventry Cathedral. The high quality performance was part of the ‘New Music Biennial’, a three-day festival featuring a range of genres from...read more

Monday 25 April 2022

Wilby introduces EBBC Set Test-Piece

With the European Brass Band Championships (EBBC) set to take place this weekend in Birmingham, now’s your chance for an in-depth look at the Championship Section set test-piece, Saints Triumphant, written by Professor Philip Wilby. In a talk released on the Brass Bands England YouTube channel, the composer presents his...read more

Monday 25 April 2022

Birmingham prepares to welcome bands for EBBF

Officials in Birmingham have extended a warm welcome to all participants and audiences travelling to the city this weekend for the European Brass Band Festival 2022. With ten events taking place across four days, and almost 70 bands featuring within the Festival, this once-in-a-decade event has been recognised by Arts...read more