Red Hot News!!!!!! Congratulations to our very own Siobhan Bates principal horn player of Youth Brass 2000 and European Champion Soloist on her appointment as the Principal Horn Player of the Most Famous and successful Brass Band in the World … Read More
That’s it – our 4 week post-contest holiday season is over! We now start preparing for Music for Youth on July 8th, and for our annual European Tour! This year we are off to the Lake Garda area of Italy! … Read More
What a fantastic end to an amazing Youth Band contesting season!We came second in the European Championship – one point away from the winner, Young Brass Band Willebroek from Belgium. We were absolutely delighted that our own Siobhan Bates took … Read More
As part of the European Championship weekend, we were invited to perform a joint concert with a local youth band – L’Harmonie Municpale de La Gorgue… This did mean a rather early – or late depending on your point of … Read More
Youth Brass 2000 complete the Grand Slam of British Youth Championships! We did it – by winning the National Youth Championships we’ve pulled off a hat trick, winning this contest three years in a row and completing the 2016 grand … Read More
On the weekend of the 12th to 14th of February, the band travelled to Blackpool for the National Youth Entertainment Championships in attempt to reclaim the title as the most entertaining youth band in the country. After hours of rehearsing … Read More
It’s that time of year again – The National Entertainment Youth Brass band Championship of Great Britain. It means a trip to Blackpool in early February, which isn’t for the faint of heart! It can be bitterly cold on that … Read More
It’s early January, and we’re off to take part in the annual National Mineworkers Brass Band Festival at the Butlins Skyline Centre, Skegness. This is a major event in the banding calendar which actually takes place over the whole weekend. … Read More
We had our annual trip up the M6Â to Preston, to take part in the youth section of the “Brass at the Guild” contest in Preston, Lancs. We have won this contest for the last three years – could we do … Read More
Having won the Nationals back in March, off we set to Freiburg in Germany to represent England in the European Championships (Youth Section). This was probably one of the toughest ever contests we had entered, as we were up against … Read More