Tullis Russell Mills Launch Youth Band

In January 2010 the Tullis Russell Mills Band will launch a new youth band project and will be looking to recruit up to 30 primary 5 and 6 pupils from the Glenrothes area. The aims and objectives for this new venture are very straight forward, to teach young Glenrothes pupils to read music and play a brass instrument with the aim of playing in public by 2011.

 

Funding is now in place and a new set of instruments have been ordered and they will be delivered very soon, funding was provided by a large grant from Awards for All Scotland, the Tullis Russell Group and the senior band gave generously as well.

 

In the past the Tullis Russell Mills Band always had a good junior band where it provided many players for the senior band but sadly over the last 20 years the number have fallen away to one or two individuals. But with the renewed spirit in Fife and Scotland in general towards re-establishing youth bands it is hoped that very soon the Tullis Russell Youth Band will once again become a feeder band into the senior band and allow Tullis Russell to become a major force in Scottish banding once again.

 

The management team of the Tullis Russell Youth Band are very grateful to Awards for All Scotland, the Tullis Russell Group and the Tullis Russell Mills Band for the financial support which has allowed this project to come to fruition and it is hoped that the Glenrothes public (and further afield) will get the opportunity to hear this new youth band in the very near future. The Scottish Brass Band Association development officer Alan Edmond's has also been closely involved with this project working as the liaison officer between the band and Fife Council Music Services.

 

 

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