This month's Centre Band: Atlantic Brass
Formed in 1984, in the Greater Philadelphia/southern region of New Jersey by Yorkshire-born Herb Roselle, the newly crowned North American champion, Atlantic Brass Band, encompasses professional musicians, professors, educators, engineers, finance workers, small business owners and students.
MD, Salvatore Scarpa, a graduate of the Eastman School...read more
The BBW team was out and about at the last six of the 2017 Regional Championships, at which the top section test, Pageantry, challenged the best and toppled a clutch of the fancied bands. Christopher Thomas reports with help from the BBW team of Mark Good, Malcolm Wood, Christopher Turner, Thomas...read more
The National Youth Brass Band Championships heralded a hat trick for the unstoppable Wardle organisation and a top section win for juggernaut, Youth Brass 2000. Malcolm Wood savoured the exuberance on display and asks why competing numbers were the lowest for a decade…
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Norwegian bass trombone player, Mina Kristine Ravndal, is going places. The 20-year-old has returned home to Stavanger to study after spending her gap year at one of Norway’s leading folkehøgskoles - an experience she will treasure forever, as Mark Good found out.
How did you get involved in playing a brass instrument?...read more
Saturday 29 April 2017
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