St Albans City Band were honoured to play at the St Albans Remembrance Day Parade, along with the Salvation Army Band on 12 November. Despite the blustery conditions, it was a moving ceremony, and Yngve played The Last Post beautifully.
What a fantastic evening of brass music! Earlier this year, we started two new initiatives to encourage community music making, a Youth group for under 18s and an adult Learners group, our Adult Training Band who joined us to perform at Autumn Brass. We were also delighted to be joined by our near neighbours, Hemel …
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There was much excitement in our band room this week! On Tuesday the next cohort in our adult training band chose their instruments and played their first notes. Then on Wednesday there was a great turnout for the first night of term of our youth band, which is going from strength to strength. Join us!
We were so thrilled this week to witness the first public performance of our newly formed Youth Band, who played eight pieces they’ve been working on this term. All founder members received a certificate and badge, and are looking forward to playing with us in September. Congratulations, everyone! Sign up now for the September term! …
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We very much enjoyed playing at Redbourn Festival on Saturday 1st July – a lovely event with the audience seated in front of us on hay bales. Pictures and musical clips from the event can be found below. Here's a mini concert from Redbourn Festival in this thread: Je Te Veux pic.twitter.com/D97UcuGoi1 — St Albans …
We were really excited to be playing for our local community at the Clarence Park bandstand again in June 2023! St Albans City Band played some lovely tunes (clips below), but more importantly it was the first public performance of our recently launched Community Band. Hats off to them – they were absolutely brilliant. Baggy …
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We were delighted to play at the Studham May Fayre again. It was a lovely atmosphere, we played some top tunes, and stayed to watch the Morris Dancers afterwards.
We were so excited to launch our adult training band this week, under the excellent, knowledgeable and enthusiastic leadership of Beth. By the end of the evening our Band could already play Mary Had a Little Lamb. Long may it continue!
Simon Tong, the leader of our youth band, is a freelance trumpet player from London and enjoys a varied career performing baroque and Renaissance music on period instruments through to more contemporary music touring festivals with artists. He has also played as part of the Macau Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and is currently principal …
Beth, the leader of our Adult Training Band, started her musical journey at the age of six in the West Midlands where she was a member of Sandwell Youth Music, gaining a place at the Royal Northern College of Music where she graduated in 2012. Beth took advantage of all the opportunities on offer at …
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