{"id":4,"date":"2026-02-14T18:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/03\/04\/welcome-to-st-albans-city-band\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:52:04","slug":"welcome-to-st-albans-city-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/welcome-to-st-albans-city-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to St Albans City Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>We are a group of friendly and community focused brass<em>&nbsp;<\/em>bands who have been making a contribution to local musical life for 130 years.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/hear-us\/\">Would you like to hear us play or book us?<\/a> A busy <a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/events\/\">schedule of concerts and engagements<\/a> finds our bands performing throughout Hertfordshire and beyond. Our bands play a wide variety of music both old and new. <a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/hear-us\/\">Hear us play or hire us!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/play-with-us\/\">Would you like to play with us?<\/a> Our main &#8220;City&#8221; band rehearses on Wednesday evenings from 8 &#8211; 10pm, our Youth Band rehearses on Wednesday early evenings, and our Community Band for returning or developing players rehearses on Tuesday evenings from 8 to 9:30. All rehearsals are at our very own Bandroom which is located at <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/BCZYJYRs96HB6w8E9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unit 5a, Parkway, Porters Wood, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 6PA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All levels and all ages welcome. We have a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/youth-band\/\">Youth Band<\/a>, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/training-band\/\">Community Band<\/a>&nbsp;and our original&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/band-vacancies\/\">St Albans City Band<\/a>, and regularly run classes for new starters. Interested? Please <a title=\"contact us\" href=\"contact-us\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a>&nbsp;via our web contact form.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to come along and meet us, please <a title=\"contact us\" href=\"contact-us\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a> via our web contact form.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter 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>&nbsp; We are a group of friendly and community focused brass&nbsp;bands who have been making a contribution to local musical life for 130 years. &nbsp; Would you like to hear us play or book us? A busy schedule of concerts and engagements finds our bands performing throughout Hertfordshire and beyond. Our bands play a wide &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/welcome-to-st-albans-city-band\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to St Albans City Band&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leading-article"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/whole-SACB-band-in-rehearsal-cropped.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}