The band celebrated the life of it’s former chairman, Dick Ivory with a small group performing at his funeral on Monday 5 January. Serving players and ex players accompanied the hymns, Dear Lord and Father of Mankind and Jerusalem as well as playing some further hymns to friends and family who remained after the service. Richard’s eldest son Stewart, former principal trombone with, the then Stantonbury Brass, joined with three of his ex pupils to play an arrangement of Londonderry Air for...

We are delighted to announce that Saturday’s Afternoon at the Movies concert was very well supported, ticket sales raised £730.00 and has been sent to Children in Need as part of the annual BBC appeal. The concert featured two of our soloists, with Ross Thompson playing the xylophone solo On the track and Kate Medley playing the trombone solo The Acrobat. The Open Band also performed for the first time under the direction of Sara Stokes, our principal cornet, who took over the baton in...

With our summer events calender drawing to a close we end with the annual trip to Emberton Held in various venues throughout the village...