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Saturday 18 November 2023

First Anniversary for Hong Kong Brass Band

The Hong Kong Brass Band is looking forward to celebrating its first anniversary in December. Conductor Tak Chun Lai originally had the idea to form a band in 2020, but with the interruption of Covid, it was December2022 when over 30 brass and percussion players attended two open rehearsals. In February...read more

Saturday 18 November 2023

Announcement from the UK Leading Bands Forum

The inaugural meeting of the UK Leading Bands Forum (UKLBF) took place in Birmingham on 10th November, 2023. Attended by representatives from 15 of the 16 founding member bands which are ranked in the top 16 in the UK, the meeting focussed on discussions around the purpose of the group and...read more

Saturday 18 November 2023

BBE launches Climate Working Group

BBE is launching a new working group to support its climate-related environmental responsibility. The group, which is now open for applications, will be made up of six independent members and supported by BBE staff, will scrutinise the organisation's work from a climate perspective. The environmental impact of all projects and programmes...read more

Saturday 18 November 2023

European Championships Tickets

An initial release of 500 ‘combi’ tickets for the 45th European Brass Band Championships (EBBC) in Palanga, Lithuania, will go on sale from 1 December. It will be the first time that these championships have been staged the Baltic States, taking place in the Palanga Concert Hall between 27 April and...read more

Saturday 18 November 2023

Kilmarnock show gratitude to retiring MD Scott Walker

Members of Kilmarnock Concert Brass took advantage of their last full rehearsal before the Band Supplies Scottish Challenge to say a huge ‘thank you’ to musical director Scott Walker who stands down from the post after the band’s participation at the contest in Perth. Scott was presented with a framed photograph of...read more

Saturday 18 November 2023

£10,000 raised in Memory of Steve Munn

Players from Ware Brass and Potters Bar Town, as well as several others from the London area have reached their ambitious fundraising £10,000 target for Bowel Cancer UK. Steve Munn, a stalwart bass player of both Ware Brass and Potters Bar Town tragically died from bowel cancer in December last year....read more

Saturday 18 November 2023

Six of the Best for Gota

Gota Brass Band notched up its sixth successive victory at the Swedish National Championships in Varnamo last weekend. The success It follows the band’s hat-trick of wins between 2017 and 2019, with post Covid-19 break wins in 2021 and 2022. The adjudicating panel’s opinion was conclusive and unanimous with Gota’s set-work...read more