BBE's popular safeguarding programme, BandSafe, is to be rolled out to the wider music community thanks to new partnerships with membership organisations Making Music and Music Mark. A Make Music Safe scheme launched this month, serving Making Music’s 4,000 members with safeguarding information, support and training for their music group. A...read more
Scottish composer Eddie McGuire’s five astronomy-inspired pieces of music have never been played before as a complete series but on the opening evening of the Orkney International Science Festival on Thursday 7 September they will be heard together, and the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland will be performing one of...read more
Congratulations to the organising committee behind the 2021 Festival of Brass on being selected as a finalist in the ‘Best Community or Not-for-profit Event 2023 - Over 3000 participants’ category in the 2023 NZEA New Zealand Event Awards.
The number of entries in this year’s Awards was the highest ever, so...read more
The Westoe Brass Band has announced the appointment of Phillip Tait as its new Musical Director. Phillip takes the help on a permanent basis after working with the band over the past three months, preparing and leading the band through its busy summer schedule. A spokesperson for Westoe stated, “We are...read more
The Brass Band Willebroek Academy Summer School took place earlier this month in the town of Lier on the outskirts of Antwerp. Almost 60 players took part in the week, with the wide range of ages and abilities catered for by the Willebroek Academy NXT, led by Wim Lauryssen, for promising...read more
After a huge fundraising effort, St David’s Brass is now able to purchase its own band hall and transform it into an asset which the whole community can enjoy. It’s a remarkable recovery for a band whose premises were vandalised just a year ago. The purchase of Vogrie Hall in Gorebridge,...read more
Wednesday 23 August 2023
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