{"id":2520,"date":"2025-09-01T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:29:40","slug":"announcing-our-new-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/announcing-our-new-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing our new Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are delighted to announce that our new Chair is Chris Hughes, trombone player in the City Band and sometimes in the Community Band, and also Youth Band parent! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Richard Sved, who has stepped down after four years in the role, and thanks to Chris for stepping up. We are very excited by what is to come. Exciting times for our growing family of\u00a0brass\u00a0bands!\u00a0\ud83c\udfba<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"753\" height=\"565\" data-id=\"2521\" src=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chris.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chris.jpg 753w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chris-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" data-id=\"2522\" src=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Richard-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Richard-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Richard-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Richard-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Richard.jpg 1709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that our new Chair is Chris Hughes, trombone player in the City Band and sometimes in the Community Band, and also Youth Band parent! Thanks to Richard Sved, who has stepped down after four years in the role, and thanks to Chris for stepping up. We are very excited by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/announcing-our-new-chair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Announcing our new Chair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2524,"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-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chris-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}