Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make yesterday’s contest such a success: David Ashworth our adjudicator; Marie Smith our registrar; Mike Allcock and Melanie Cooper for compèring the contest; Mark Davis and Graham Healey for transporting and managing all the percussion during the day; Jo Priestley for looking after all our trophies;…

I have now issued the final information to bands competing in our area test piece contest on 12th February.

NEMBBA offers long service certificates to players (and conductors) of our member bands (those who have entered our February contest) for 25, 50, 60 and 75 cumulative years of membership of brass bands (this includes time playing in school and non-contesting brass bands and with non-NEMBBA bands). Awards can be made retrospectively if you have,…

I have now issued the contest draw and estimated timings to the secretaries of all the bands who have entered our contest (please do not put the draw on social media), together with a list of percussion which is being supplied. If you have entered, please let me know if your band has not receive…

Entries to our February contest are now closed. My apologies to those bands who are missing out, particularly to those bands who have supported our contest in previous years. I will look for a larger venue or split the contest over two days in 2024 so that we can accommodate more bands. If your band…

Thank you to all the bands who have already entered our February contest: twenty so far, which is already more than last February. We can accommodate a maximum of a further three bands at our venue (which would make it our biggest NEMBBA contest since I first attended in February 1997). My apologies to those…

Entries are now open to our annual area test piece contest at the Post Mill Centre on 12th February. For further information, please see our events page.