Richard Marshall and Vicki Kennedy have been announced as the new conducting partnership at Askern and Hatfield Colliery Band. Having both been associated with the band for many years, as former Principal Cornet players, the conducting partnership begins with immediate effect.
Richard, Black Dyke’s cornet star, commented, “To conduct is something that...read more
Seventy-four bands and ensembles have signed up to take part in the Scottish Festival of Brass later this month in Perth. On Saturday 18 November, 26 bands in Sections 1-4 will take to the stage in the city’s Concert Hall for the Band Supplies Scottish Challenge. This own-choice contest will be...read more
Following its first, highly-successful event in the summer of 2022, the Bold as Brass contest will return for 2024 to once again fill the Wakefield museum site with the sound of brass. The contest will be delivered in partnership with Brass Bands England (BBE) and is due to take place on...read more
Four members of Clackmannan District Band have received life membership medals from the Scottish Brass Band Association in recognition of their long service to banding. The medals were presented during Clackmannan’s annual awards ceremony and inaugural solo and ensemble competition at the weekend.
Soprano player Julie Johnstone has been with band for...read more
Jedforest Instrumental Band gave a thrilling performance to win the Borders Entertainment Contest in Selkirk’s Victoria Halls on the weekend. In the process of winning the competition, the band and MD Phil Rosier, also picked up awards for the best bass section, best instrumentalist (solo trombone Gordon Melrose), highest placed Borders...read more
Brassband Rjinmond under the skilled and experience leadership of Luc Vertommen, emerged victorious at the recent 42nd Dutch National Championships held in TivoliVredenburg complex in Utrecht. The piece testing the championship division bands was the exciting ‘Sand and Stars’ by Thierry Deleruyelle with the adjudicating panel of Sheona Wade, Florent Didier...read more
Nineteen bands took to the stage at the Musikhuset in Aarhus last weekend for the Danish National Championships; four in the Elite section vying for National honours and an invitation to the 2024 European Championships.
In celebration of the organising body’s, Dansk Amatør Orkesterforbund, 75th anniversary the set test was a new...read more
Saturday 11 November 2023
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