By the time you have read this the band will have taken part in their first contest of the season, the Oxford and District Brass Band Association contest at Cokethorpe School. It gives us the opportunity to play the Regional test piece 20,000 Leagues under the Sea - ‘A tribute to Jules Verne’. Following the hectic Christmas season, the band spend most of the New Year preparing for the qualifying competition at Stevenage in order to maintain their position as a second section band. Loved by...

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...