Ah, Stevenage. The concrete epicentre of the London & Southern Counties Regional Brass Band Contest. 15 bands gathered in the Arts & Leisure centre for the first area contest since 2019. Due to two 300 ton, 70m long bits of some sort of national grid infrastructure making its way across Sussex (didn’t they know about […]
Category: Contests
First Section – here we come
By most people’s standards, and for lots of reasons, it’s been a tough start to the year for LGB Brass. So we toddled off to Stevenage on Sunday 17th March for the London and Southern Counties Area Contest with mixed feelings. The piece (Darrol Barry’s Rise of the Phoenix) hadn’t sparked too much a flame […]
Thank you Lewes Town Council
All at LGB Brass would like to say a very big thank you to Lewes Town Council, for their very kind donation of £1000 to our Cheltenham fund. The money, as with everything raised to help get use to the finals in September, will go towards the costs of getting a band of 25 ready […]
A day of firsts
Well. It’s been nearly a week now, but it still doesn’t quite feel real. On Sunday 18 March LGB Brass travelled to Stevenage to take part in the London and Southern Counties regional contest of the National Brass Band Championships. The pilgrimage to Hertfordshire is an annual one for the band, and 2018 would be […]
Spring Contest success in Crawley
On 25 February the band made the regular pilgrimage to The Hawth in Crawley to take part in the scaba Spring Contest. To add a bit of extra challenge, this year LGB entered the first section, as well as in our regular berth in the second section. The second section performance was first up, where […]
The band is still Entertaining – More top prizes at the scaba Entertainments contest
Lewes Glynde and Beddingham Brass Band brought some more silverware home this weekend with success at the scaba Entertainment contest. The band were placed second overall, retaining the trophy from 2016. The best Soloist prize was awarded to Jon Smith, our Principal Euphonium. The Trombone section Peter Cowlett, Lizzie Holmes, Ann Zeal-Bland, Jane Stewart, were […]
Clean Sweep at scaba Spring Contest
Lewes Glynde and Beddingham Brass Band had a clean sweep at the scaba Spring contest held on Sunday 30th April. The band played an own choice March of Bramwyn, John Carr and own choice test piece Rhapsody in Brass, Dean Goffin. We were awarded the following : March Prize Test Piece Prize Best Instrumentalist: Simon Emberley (Soprano) […]
Congratulations at the Areas
Huge Congratulations to our Former members and friends who have been out contesting at the Areas! Former member Ian Hobbs and friend and regular dep Sharon McCallum whose band SW Comms won the First section in the West of England Former members Colin and Wendy Bourne whose band Bournemouth Concert came second in the First […]
LGB crowned scaba Band of the Year 2016
LGB Brass swept the board in the second section at the scaba Autumn contest in Crawley on Sunday 25th October. The band took first place in the hymn tune category, and followed that by taking first prize for their superb rendition of “Images for Brass” by Stephen Bulla. There were individual awards for Angela Holloway […]
The Mermaid Swims to Silverware
Lewes Glynde and Beddingham Brass had a fantastic outing at the scaba Spring Contest this weekend, winning second place overall in their section. Their programme began with the march “Death or Glory” by RB Hall, continued with a beautifully restrained rendition of the hymn tune “Sandon” and concluded with the magnificent test piece “The Mermaid of […]