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
We did it again – we are the National Champion Youth Band for the second year running! A really difficult test piece in The Saga of Tyrfing, and we were up against some pretty serious opposition. We pulled it off though, … Read More
It’s Butlins again! Unfortunately we didn’t manage to take that huge rose bowl home with us this time, but we still had a great time. A day at the Skyline Centre is certainly worth making the trip for!Many thanks to … Read More