Published on November 30th, 2020
The Scottish Virtual Youth Brass Band Festival will be taking place on Sunday (29 November) at 2pm on the SBBA YouTube channel. Youth brass and percussion groups of any size have been invited to take part... Read More →
Published on November 30th, 2020
The 80-strong National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain is to perform a joint virtual performance of Dan Price’s Andromeda with the Royal Marines Band Service. Musicians from the Royal Marines will record the military band... Read More →
Published on November 23rd, 2020
The British Trombone Society is proud to support our Player of the Year 2020 – Trevor Mires. To celebrate, Trevor is offering free online Zoom lessons to trombone players of pre-college age. This generous offer will... Read More →
Published on November 23rd, 2020
The organisers of the Butlin’s Brass Band Festival have announced the cancellation of the 2021 event, due to have taken place at the Skegness Resort over the weekend of Friday, January 29 – Monday 1 February, as a... Read More →
Published on November 23rd, 2020
The Scottish Brass Band Association is encouraged by the findings of a long-awaited report by the Musical Education Partnership Group (Scotland) into the study of the ‘aerosol’ effects of playing a brass instrument. The conclusion of... Read More →
Published on November 23rd, 2020
Next up in the fortnightly Brass Bands England webinar series is an illustrated talk by Percussion soloist Simone Rebello. In this insightful webinar, Simone Rebello will look at the developing role of percussion in brass bands... Read More →
Published on November 23rd, 2020
Maestro Bramwell Tovey, the Grammy and Juno award-winning artistic director of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (NYBBGB) has stepped down from the post he has held since 2006. Tovey, Principal Conductor of the... Read More →
Published on November 23rd, 2020
Swapping trombones for trainers: four Trustees of the UniBrass Foundation are set to run the distance from Bangor to Sheffield in a bid to raise much needed funds for the charity. The challenge involves running the... Read More →
Published on November 23rd, 2020
Brass Bands England (BBE) has announced that Sam Fisher is the successful candidate in the search for the first dedicated Safeguarding Officer with responsibility for the organisation and administration of the organisation’s groundbreaking BandSafe programme. Sam... Read More →
Published on November 23rd, 2020
Campaign page:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-our-brass-bands Brass Bands saw their main source of income disappear in an instant when they had to stop putting on performances in March in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. A significant loss in income over... Read More →