Our absolute beginners are making great progress!
Our latest cohort of brass beginners are awesome! Here they are in Week 4 with guest teacher Martyn and they’re already sounding great!
“Play this bit like swans!”
“Play this bit like swans! The horns are gliding like the body over the surface, lower brass paddling away like the legs underwater. If you can only see the legs, the swan is ill!” Thanks for conducting us tonight, Alan.
Welcoming our January 2026 adult beginners!
It was very exciting to meet our eight new adult beginners who started with Beth tonight and sounded great! Welcome to the wonderful world of brass.
Happy New Year and well done Reuben, Nick and Trevor!
It was great to be back in the band room tonight, playing lots of lovely new music. And a chance to congratulate Reuben, Nick and Trevor, seen here proudly holding their Diploma, Grade 3 and Grade 6 Certificates respectively.
Final day of brass performances to round off 2025
St Albans City Band really enjoyed playing at the St Saviours Christmas Tree Festival on 20 December. And no better way to end our 2025 events calendar than a bit of local neighbourhood carolling! See you in 2026!
Spreading festive brass cheer in December!
Our Community Band have been out and about spreading festive brass cheer (carolling) in December 2025. Pictures and some clips below. The City Band played carols at the St Albans Rotary Club Christmas Dinner. After the 2025 Annual Meeting, we all played together in the Band Room for the final time in the year (and …
Sign up to our Youth Band Free Absolute Beginner 8 week course!
Our Youth Band Free Absolute Beginner 8 week brass course starts at 6pm on 12th January 2026. Live in or near St Albans? Know a young person who might like to play a brass instrument? What are you waiting for? Sign up here.
What an evening! All I want for Christmas is Brass – an evening of festive favourites
On 29th November 2025, St Albans City Band proudly presented All I Want for Christmas is Brass! A packed crowd joined us for an evening of festive favourites, featuring St Albans City Band, St Albans Community Band, St Albans Youth Band, and our Adult Training Band. Lots of clips and pics below! Community Band Youth …
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Our Community Band play Asda Hatfield
St Albans Community Band were pleased to invite you to deck the halls with boughs of holly, especially if you happened to be in Asda in Hatfield at the weekend.
Introducing our new Adult Training Band!
We now have four (count them) brass bands in our family! Massive shout out to our adult training band who performed brilliantly at our Christmas concert after only learning their instruments for eight weeks.