{"id":1290,"date":"2024-04-24T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T09:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2024-04-25T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:57:15","slug":"announcing-nicholas-garman-as-our-musical-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/announcing-nicholas-garman-as-our-musical-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Nicholas Garman as our new Musical Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are thrilled to confirm that, after a successful period as Interim\u00a0Musical Director, Nicholas Garman will be joining us from the 1st of May 2024 as our Musical Director. Nicholas has a deep connection with St Albans City Band having played cornet with us and conducted us many times over several decades. He has also played with many of the country\u2019s finest bands including Brighouse, Cory, Fairey, Foden&#8217;s and Grimethorpe. And as a conductor, Nicholas has won &#8216;best entertainment&#8217; in the Cory Online Entertainment Contest and other local entertainment contests and has also conducted at the National Finals of Great Britain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" src=\"http:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png 190w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicholas said: &#8220;I am very proud to be able to officially rekindle my relationship with the band I have such fond memories of and look forward to creating new ones together.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are delighted to have you working with us again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"74\" src=\"http:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Stalbanscityband_Tertiary_Logo_Full_Colour_RGB_628px@300ppi-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Stalbanscityband_Tertiary_Logo_Full_Colour_RGB_628px@300ppi-1-1.png 441w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Stalbanscityband_Tertiary_Logo_Full_Colour_RGB_628px@300ppi-1-1-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to confirm that, after a successful period as Interim\u00a0Musical Director, Nicholas Garman will be joining us from the 1st of May 2024 as our Musical Director. Nicholas has a deep connection with St Albans City Band having played cornet with us and conducted us many times over several decades. He has also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/announcing-nicholas-garman-as-our-musical-director\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Announcing Nicholas Garman as our new Musical Director&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/48963720_10157023714707340_2712526629178966016_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}