Come and join us! Lewes Glynde and Beddingham Brass performs A Christmas Carol Saturday 16th December 2017 4pm at All Saint’s Arts Centre, Lewes e-mail secretary@lgbbrass.co.uk for tickets
Category: Performances
Wish Concert at All Saints
Ahead of our summer season, the band have been asked by the Mayor of Lewes to give a concert at All Saints this coming Saturday starting at 6.30pm. It takes the form of a German style Wish Concert, where the audience bids to hear their favourite piece(s) played. The one raising the most money gets played […]
LGB Brass welcomes High Sheriff at Inauguration Ceremony
The Lewes, Glynde and Beddingham (LGB Brass) fanfare trumpeters were on display this week at the High Sheriffs’ inauguration ceremony at Lewes Crown Court on Tuesday 22nd March 2016. Tony Line and Alex Emberley were playing the Sheriffs’ own Eb silver bugles, together with Jane Humberstone and Christina Kearley playing full-length Bb fanfare trumpets, directed […]
Great success for LGB Brass at Solos contest!
LGB Brass claimed a clean sweep of the scaba Senior Solos and Duets contest at St Paul’s Catholic College in Burgess Hill this weekend. Their principal euphonium player James Emberley was placed first in both the Slow Melody and Air Varie categories, playing ‘Donegal Bay’ and ‘Napoli’ respectively (accompanied by band chairman Peter Cowlett on each occasion). […]
Scrooge comes to town!
The Lewes Glynde and Beddingham (LGB) Brass Band performed ‘A Christmas Carol’ with a twist (!) last Saturday at the All Saints Arts Centre in Lewes – three narrators telling Dickens’ story accompanied by a variety of Christmas music, from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker to Howard Blake’s Walking in the Air. Put together by Ian Stewart, LGB’s […]
Despite the Rumours, LGB Brass is Entertaining!
LGB Brass claimed first place in B section Of the Southern Counties Amateur Band Associations entertainments contest held recently at the Hawth Theatre in Crawley on Sunday 16th May 2015. The band performed a lively and entertaining mix of music which led to adjudicator John Maines placing them first in a keenly contested competition making […]
Come and hear Gordon Campbell in concert with LGB
You are hereby cordially invited to our forthcoming concert, featuring Gordon Campbell in an evening of Big Band music and Brass Band favourites. Gordon is one of the country’s leading trombone players, has been lead trombone in the BBC Big Band since 1984, and has played along side (among others) Shirley Bassey, Ella Fitzgerald and […]
Band bolsters Boobs and Brass
Saturday 13th September will mark a proud day for LGB Brass, when six of our members (and several of our regular deps) perform as part of the famous ‘Boobs and Brass’ all-female brass band, under the directorship of no less than our President, Dennis Wilby. The band was born in 2006, when they performed what […]
Chalvington Flower Show
The band recently performed at the Chalvington Flower Show after it was rained off last year. The sun stayed out for the day and allowed one member of the band to show off her new mohawk hairstyle. Or is that a plant behind her…
Band + fireworks = great night out
Get your tickets while you still can folks – this Saturday marks a highlight of the LGB calendar – ‘Proms in the Paddock’. If you fancy an evening of great music, all topped off with fireworks (in traditional Lewes style), then get yourself down to the Paddock in Lewes on Saturday night. Gates open at […]