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Thursday 15 August 2024

BBE Conference Fringe Events

The Brass Band Conference 2024 has been extended with additional online events being added to the programme. The Conference Fringe will offer further opportunities for learning as well as open up the Conference for those who are unable to attend the event in-person on 19 October in London. Participation in the...read more

Thursday 15 August 2024

Amazing week at ISSBB

Over 120 delegates from 10 different countries enjoyed a memorable week of music making and fun atthis year’s International Brass Band Summer School in Swansea. The week concluded in traditional fashion with rousing Gala Concert at its Great Hall where the Cardinal and Symphony Bands performed for a local audience before...read more

Thursday 15 August 2024

NYBB goes ‘Down Under’ in Blackburn

The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain gave a fantastic performance at Blackburn Cathedral last weekend (Saturday 10th August) impressing the audience with a programme of antipodean inspired repertoire under guest conductor Professor David King. The concert provided the finale to an action-packed week’s residential course at Stonyhurst, which included...read more

Thursday 15 August 2024

Entries invited for the Scottish Youth Brass Band Festival

Entry forms and information for this year’s Scottish Youth Brass Band Festival are now available. All youth brass bands and percussion ensembles in Scotland are invited to enter their respective competitions, part of the Scottish Festival of Brass, which will take place in Perth Concert Hall over the weekend of 23...read more

Thursday 15 August 2024

BBCA goes from ‘Strength to Strength’

At the Brass Band Conductors’ Association’s AGM on Saturday 27th July it was reported that the organisation has continued to go from strength to strength throughout 2023/4, with membership growth at 18%. Highlights have included the annual conducting competition, the panel discussion on female conductors and collaborations with other organisations such...read more

Thursday 15 August 2024

West Coast Ladies plan Charity Concert

West Coast Ladies Brass is planning a concert for charity in October and is looking for players to sign up for the event. The event will take palce in Paisley Salvation Army Hall on Saturday 19th October. Players must be female and aged 18 or over and play for a...read more

Thursday 15 August 2024

Ancestral Reverb Sound Piece

Threads in the Ground, Redhills CIO, and Brass Bands England are collaborating to create a sound piece, ‘Ancestral Reverb’. The piece will weave together different strands of audio including: - Some of the earliest known audio recordings of colliery bands (1903) - New recordings of the Durham Miners Association band...read more