Best wishes to our Scottish representatives in the European Brass Band Festival
Best wishes to all Scottish brass musicians, young and not-so-young, who will be travelling down the M6 to Birmingham this week to take part in this weekend’s European Brass Band Festival.
Good luck to the National Brass Band of Scotland (NYBBS) and the cooperation band who will both be competing at the festival. On Saturday, NYBBS will be among six bands in the European Youth Brass Band Competition development section. Each band will play a 20-minute programme which will include the set test piece Corineus by Christopher Bond.
Tickets are available online at https://bmusic.co.uk/events/ebbf-youth-competition
Later that day, the cooperation band will be competing in the championship section of the European Brass Band Championships, playing the set test piece, the world premier of Saints Triumphant by Philip Wilby, against 10 other bands.
Tickets are available online at https://bmusic.co.uk/events/ebbf-championship-set-test
the cooperation band will be performing both the set test piece and own-choice test piece at an open rehearsal at 7.30pm on Thursday at Rutherglen Salvation Army, 165 King Street, Glasgow G73 1BZ.
You can indicate your intention to go along to this final rehearsal here.
