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Thursday 31 March 2022

Back to Perth for the Northern Counties Open

This year’s Northern Counties Open Contest is to be held on Sunday 29 May. The event will take place in the North Inch Community Campus, Gowans Terrace, Perth PH1 5BF where the adjudicator will be Gareth Bowman. Bands will perform own-choice entertainment programmes of a maximum of 20 minutes in...read more

Thursday 31 March 2022

Spring Festival Competitors

The list of Spring Festival 2022 competitors has been announced. With the last two Championships cancelled, the 100th Spring Festival event will take place on Saturday 7th May at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. The test-pieces are retained from what would have been the 2020 event, with the Grand Shield...read more

Thursday 31 March 2022

Flemish Open Contenders Announced

Competitors for the Flemish Open Brass Band Championships have been announced, including thirteen bands from four countries. The eighth outing for this event will take place in Mechelen on the 9th and 10th of April. The adjudication panel consists of Blaise Heritier from Switzerland, Ben Haemhouts from Belgium and Karl Ole...read more

Thursday 31 March 2022

Swiss National Test Pieces Announced

The Swiss Brass Band Association has announced the list of test pieces that will be performed at the 2022 Swiss National Championships in Montreux. The event will take place at the Montreux 2m2c Convention Centre on November 26th and 27th....read more

Wednesday 30 March 2022

EBBC Juries and Band Line-up

The European Brass Band Association (EBBA) is pleased to announce the band line-up and adjudicators for the European Brass Band Championships in association with World of Brass, the European Composers’ Competition and the European Youth Brass Band Contest, to be held as part of the European Brass Band Festival in...read more

Monday 28 March 2022

Last Regional Weekend in Cheltenham

The last weekend of the Regional Championships sees the rearranged West of England Regional Championships take place at The Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse this coming Saturday & Sunday. This venue is normally used for the Sections 1-4 Finals of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain each September, but the...read more

Monday 28 March 2022

NYBBGB Open Day

On Wednesday 13th April the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain is opening the doors to its Easter residential course at Harrogate Ladies College, and would love to have lots of budding brass banders join them. The day is completely free of charge. It promises to be a great opportunity...read more