I have now issued the final information to bands competing in our contest on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th February. Copies of all the documents send to the bands (apart from the draw) are on the Documents page.

A list of the percussion we will be providing for our February contest has been emailed to all the band secretaries. A copy may be found on our documents page.

I have now closed our area test piece contest on the 15th/16th February to further entries and have issued the draw and estimated timings to all the bands who have entered (please do not put your draw on social media). If your band has not received my email, please let me know and I will…

Please note that entries to the first and second sections are now closed (each section is restricted to ten bands to ensure that we keep within the fire regulations concerning the number of people in the building at any one time). Please email Robert at admin@nembba.org.uk if your band wishes to be added to the…

Entries are now open to our annual area test piece contest at the Post Mill Centre on 15th and 16th February. For further information, please see our events page. To keep within the venues fire regulations, we need to limit our sections to a maximum of ten bands. Please note that the first and second…

Next year’s contest will be over the weekend of the 15th and 16th February 2025 at the Post Mill Centre, Market Street, South Normanton DE55 2EJ. Training Bands, Unregistered Bands, Fourth and Second Sections will play on the Saturday and Third, First and Championship Sections will play on the Sunday. Entry forms will be available…

A big thank you to everybody who worked so hard to make this weekend’s contest a success: The full results of the contest are: Training Band Section 1) Ratby Crescendo Band (Becky Cook)2) Long Eaton Silver Prize Band (Sharon Stansfield) Best instrumentalist: Daniel Rigley (kit) Long Eaton Silver Prize Band Unregistered Band Section 1) Shirland…

I have now issued the final information to bands competing in our contest on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th February. Copies of all the documents send to the bands (apart from the draw) are on the Documents page.

A list of the percussion we will be providing for each of the graded sections at our contest has been emailed to all the band secretaries. A copy may be found on our documents page. Please let Robert Stansfield know if you think we have overlooked anything.               For the unregistered and training band sections,…

Please note that entries to the second section are now closed (each section is restricted to ten bands to ensure that we keep within the fire regulations concerning the number of people in the building at any one time).