At our recent Spring contest, It gave the scaba team great pleasure to present Janet Blackford with a thoroughly deserved award for 50 years service to brass banding. Janet started her banding career with Godalming Band and, with the encouragement of her parents Bob and Peggy Tucker, joined the National Youth Brass Band of Great…
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Following another successful Easter course under the leadership of Ian Porthouse, the Southern Counties Youth Band is recruiting for the 2016/17 academic year. The SCYB was set up by scaba to encourage young brass players to improve their playing ability and to have fun making music. The band meets once a month on a Sunday….
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Friary Guildford Band’s bass section is celebrating the arrival of a brand new set of Yamaha Neo instruments, purchased with the help of funding via the suppliers, Rosehill of Beaconsfield. EEb bass player and Band Librarian Phil German explains: ‘Some of our previous basses were nearly 30 years old, and gave us great service –…
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Oxted Band is pleased to announce the latest ‘Stars of Brass’ concert: Saturday 16th April St John’s Church, Hurst Green, Surrey RH8 9EA 7.30pm This year’s featured soloist is Ben Dixon, principal EEb tuba of the world famous Black Dyke Band. Ben joined Black Dyke in 2013, and following 3 years studying performance at Salford,…
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Friary Guildford cemented its position as the South’s number one band on Sunday, retaining the title of London & Southern Counties Regional Champions at Stevenage and securing a return to the National Finals at the Royal Albert Hall for the fourth successive year. Despite being drawn as the first band to play – never a…
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Following the last Quarterly Forum meeting held in January, there have been a number of amendments to our Contesting, Registration and Day Transfer rules. Updated rules and Day Transfer form have been sent to member bands today and can be accessed on this site. The key changes are: Rules & Conditions for Contesting &…
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The annual scaba Entertainment Contest will take place on Sunday 22nd May 2016 at The Hawth Theatre, Crawley. Bands will play Own Choice musical programmes. Adjudicator tbc. The contest will be limited to 18 bands on a first come, first served basis. scaba member bands have been given preference over non-member bands for…
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The scaba Spring Contest will take place on Sunday 24th April 2016 at The Hawth Theatre in Crawley. Our adjudicator for the day will be John Berryman. John is an internationally respected adjudicator, and is making a welcome return to scaba having adjudicated our Spring Contest in 2002. The contest will comprise of own choice…
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With Christmas just around the corner, many of us will have some extra time on our hands for lots of home practice, so why not put it to good use and prepare for scaba’s first event of 2016?! Our Solo and Duet Contest will be held on 13th February at St. Paul’s Catholic College in…
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