{"id":1494,"date":"2026-02-14T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:18:17","slug":"new-players-are-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/new-players-are-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"New players are welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you live in or near St Albans? Did you play a brass instrument years ago and have started thinking about playing again? Have you just moved to the area and played in your previous area? Or are you playing elsewhere and fancy a change, or just want to come along for some extra practice? Then we can help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All levels and all ages welcome. We have a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/youth-band\/\">Youth Band<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/training-band\/\">Community Band<\/a>\u00a0(for recent adult beginners or returning players) and of course our original\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/band-vacancies\/\">St Albans City Band<\/a>. We also regularly hold <a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/welcoming-adult-beginners\/\">brass beginners courses<\/a>.<\/p>\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\/2024\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.png 441w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/452573894_6557341161434_5871864045183117070_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/452573894_6557341161434_5871864045183117070_n.jpg 526w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/452573894_6557341161434_5871864045183117070_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/452573894_6557341161434_5871864045183117070_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you live in or near St Albans? Did you play a brass instrument years ago and have started thinking about playing again? Have you just moved to the area and played in your previous area? Or are you playing elsewhere and fancy a change, or just want to come along for some extra practice? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/new-players-are-welcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New players are welcome!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260415-IMG_5160.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","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=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}