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Centenary Celebrations
Lewes, Glynde and Beddingham Brass Band celebrate their centenary and launch ‘BrassSparks’, their next generation initiative On Saturday 30th of June 2022 we, along with 200 of our friends and supporters, celebrated the band’s 100th anniversary. The occasion was marked by a concert, hosted by kind permission of the Mayor of Lewes, at Lewes Town…
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Centenary Concert
Join us for a night of music, brought to you by kind permission of The Mayor of Lewes. We’ll be playing a range of old and new original works – including the premier of our centenary commission ‘A Sussex Celebration’ – as well as our popular favourites. Tickets are free but must be reserved in…
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Abnormal loads
Ah, Stevenage. The concrete epicentre of the London & Southern Counties Regional Brass Band Contest. 15 bands gathered in the Arts & Leisure centre for the first area contest since 2019. Due to two 300 ton, 70m long bits of some sort of national grid infrastructure making its way across Sussex (didn’t they know about…
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International Women’s Day 2021
Today is International Women’s Day This year’s campaign is Choose To Challenge and we wanted to share a video of Christina, our Principal Cornet, playing “Share my Yoke” composed by Salvationist Joy Webb. We’re proud of all the women making music in our band and we’re always looking for ways to improve what we do. Did…
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A Virtual Christmas Concert
LGB Brass presents ‘A Virtual Christmas Concert’ Check out the link below to view our Christmas Concert 2020! Premiers 18/12/20 at 19:30. Pour yourself a glass of mulled wine, fill a plate with mince pies and cosy in for a concert of Christmas music, readings and a visual celebration of the towns and villages the…
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Lewes Christmas Foodbanks Appeal
We were pleased to have supported the Lewes Christmas Foodbanks Appeal last Saturday (19th December). Mark and his volunteers did a fantastic job and collected 7002 items of food and household goods for distribution. We’d all like to thank Aldi, Tesco and Waitrose for taking part. slot gacor slot gacor jacktoto toto slot situs toto…
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Centenary Fundraiser
The band has been almost completely silent since March! We managed to have a few socially distanced rehearsals in groups of 10 players between the two lockdowns, and we are hoping to be able to get back to it after 2nd December. 2022 will be our centenary year and we are planning various projects to…
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Stanley Woods
It was with sadness that we learned of the passing of Stanley Woods, former Musical Director of the Glynde and Beddingham Brass Band. Stan was MD for many years and was much loved and highly regarded by those who played in the band. Stan was formerly Co-Principal Trumpet of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and a…
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Thank you Concentus
If you’re not careful, brass banding can get a bit formulaic. You trundle along with the usual cycle of contests, summer fetes, Christmas carolling and bandstand performances, staying in your comfort zone in terms of music, venues and audiences. Every so often though, you need to mix things up a bit, and responsibility for keeping…
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First Section – here we come
By most people’s standards, and for lots of reasons, it’s been a tough start to the year for LGB Brass. So we toddled off to Stevenage on Sunday 17th March for the London and Southern Counties Area Contest with mixed feelings. The piece (Darrol Barry’s Rise of the Phoenix) hadn’t sparked too much a flame…