There are still some places up for grabs at the Higham Hall Brass Band Weekend, running from February 18th at 18:30 to February 20th at 13:30. The event is billed as a serious, yet relaxed, weekend for brass band players to rehearse and perform popular, and perhaps lesser-known, brass band...read more
Isobel Daws, one of the fastest rising trombone stars, will make the move to Berlin for the next exciting stage of her career, having won a position at the Berlin Philharmonic's prestigious Karajan Academy. Founded in the early 1970's, the Karajan Academy was set up to provide an exclusive platform...read more
Brass Bands England has teamed up with experts from vatadvice.org to bring a free VAT information session to the brass banding community. The webinar will take place on Monday 14 March at 7pm and will explore the various elements of cultural exemption as well as other financial benefits that can...read more
For the first time, the VLAMO Composition Contest competition catered exclusively to new and high-quality fanfare repertoire for lower divisions in hopes that with this initiative, VLAMO would give fanfare bands a boost. In 2020, fanfare bands became part of the Flemish Inventory of Cultural Heritage and in 2021, they...read more
Whitburn Band is currently preparing for a very special concert that has been on the cards for two years. The Scottish Open champion celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2020, but the pandemic prevented the band from holding its planned anniversary concert with trumpet legend Mike Lovatt and several other events. Instead,...read more
Brass in Concert has announced the retirement of long-standing board member, David Bennett, who has also been the organisation’s Chairman since 2019. David’s involvement with Brass in Concert goes back to the event’s origins in Darlington, where it was established to celebrate HM The Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. He...read more
Friday 28 January 2022
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