Cory Band, from the Rhondda Valley in South Wales, has recently been awarded £35,000 from Arts Council Wales’ Coronavirus Survival Fund to deliver a number of projects which aim to provide inspiration to other brass players, motivation for its own players and to enable the band to continue interacting with its...read more
On Sunday 2nd and Monday 3rd August the International Brass Band Summer School linked up with Geneva Group star performers of Black Dyke Band and BrassPass.tv to broadcast free of charge around the banding world. IBBSS Course Administrator Alison Childs stated, "Following the disappointment of having to cancel the 2020 IBBSS...read more
The Prairie Music Residency (PMR) was set up by the Saskatoon Brass Bands Inc. in 2013 to help further enrich the long-standing tradition of British-style brass banding in Saskatchewan and North America, while offering players a chance to work with world class brass band musicians and improve their skills in an...read more
More than 150 young musicians of the 3 NYBBS bands, Children’s, Reserve and Senior, will be taking part in an innovative Grand Finale event this Saturday (8th August).
The programme of music interspersed with interviews and more informal chat is the culmination of weeks of hard work undertaken by players, tutors and...read more
New Zealand's effective approach to combating the Coronavirus outbreak has meant that the National Band of New Zealand have returned to full rehearsals. The 2020/21 Band met in Wellington for its first weekend of rehearsals under the direction of David Bremner, with 12 new members in its ranks. The band is...read more
Members of Brecon Concert Band enjoyed an open air rehearsal earlier this week on Monday evening. Working with the local council, the band were able to rehearse open air in the town theatre car park.
The group felt able to organise the rehearsal thanks to new measures introduced by the Welsh Government...read more
The results of a set of investigations into the release of respiratory aerosols by brass instruments has been released by Brass Bands England (BBE) as a preprint, having been submitted for peer-review. The study, led by BBE Partnership and Relationship Development Manager Dr. Alex Parker, looked at how many particles were...read more
Thursday 6 August 2020
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