Brass Boost For Beginners Brass

Downton Band’s new Beginners Brass group has been given a boost by the award of over £3,000 from the Ernest Cook Trust.

The traditional brass band, that has recently celebrated 140 years of music making, runs a successful training band made up of young and old people keen to learn brass and percussion instruments. And the Gravel Close based band has now set up a new Beginners Brass group to encourage even more people to learn.

Paul Williams, Downton Band’s Musical Director told A4B: “Beginners Brass is open to anyone who wishes to come along and learn how to play an instrument. We have deliberately tried to make it as cheap as possible to learn with us as music tuition and instruments can be very expensive. For just £1 a week you’ll get expert tuition, a weekly rehearsal, plenty of performance opportunities and the loan of an instrument to take home to practice.

“The band has been very fortunate and delighted to be supported by the Ernest Cook Trust and this will enable the band to buy more instruments so that more people can have the opportunity to learn an instrument.”

Beginners Brass meets every Monday and the group’s first rehearsal back after the Christmas break will be on January 9th at 6pm at the band’s hall on Gravel Close. Please get in touch via [email protected] to reserve your space.