Receives The King’s Award for Voluntary Service Macclesfield Youth Brass Band Receives The King’s Award for Voluntary Service Macclesfield Youth Brass band (MYBB), a volunteer led organisation, has been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntar…
Read more →Proud as punch today. I’ve listened to all our three bands deliver excellent performances, starting with Liz and the training band and then a well deserved bronze award for Harry and the juniors. And tonight, a fantastic third place and a g…
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Read more →Macclesfield Youth Brass Band were crowned the new Brass Factor champions on their debut performance at the Brass Factor entertainment competition held at the Picturedrome in Holmfirth last Saturday (28 th October). They scared off strong c…
Read more →This weekend Macclesfield Youth Brass Band will premiere a new work by British Composer Award winner Lucy Pankhurst. Commissioned for the band’s performance at the Barnaby Festival, ‘Contact Light’ (the words spoken by Buzz Aldrin as the Lu…
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Read more →MYBB delivered a colourful, high energy 20 minute programme on the theme of the Rio olympics for this year’s Action Research Youth Band Entertainment competition held in the Opera House at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. Their efforts got …
Read more →MYBB is once again teaming up with British Composer Award winner Lucy Pankhurst to come up with an original and ground breaking project for the youth band. Using Novation launchpad technology, the young musicians have been working with Lucy…
Read more →“Blown away”, “ A night to remember”, and “WOW!”. Just some of the comments which have been coming from the audience at MYBB’s Tenth Anniversary concert on 4th July. The concert hall at the Royal Northern College of Music was filled with pl…
Read more →It was a late night for MYBB players on Whit Friday but there was a very nice surprise for them when they woke up on Saturday – they had become Tameside Youth Champions! Maybe there were a few clues during the evening. The band’s first marc…
Read more →Where? The Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester When? Saturday 4th July 7 pm Why? MYBB’s biggest and best concert is not to be missed – you will hear • Music from all three bands and the Drum Corps, plus an appearance from former pla…
Read more →The Youth Band got the tenth anniversary year off to a great start in the Action Medical Research Youth Entertainment Championships at Blackpool on 8th February. A colourful Tyrolean themed programme gave them their best result to date, bei…
Read more →MYBB is one of the country’s newest youth bands but will be ten years old in 2015! We have been working on plans for a very special year and are looking forward to some exciting events. Here is a list of performances arranged so far: Sunday…
Read more →Adjudicator Fiona Rolfe had some difficult decisions to make in Macclesfield Youth Brass Band’s sixth Slow Melody Contest on Saturday 27th September. The standard was very high, with only one point between contestants in many classes, not t…
Read more →Macclesfield Youth Brass Band has opened its summer season with some dazzling performances from the Training Band, Junior Band and Drum Corps at Wildboarclough Rose Queen Fete. The sun didn’t quite manage to dazzle as well, but it was warm …
Read more →Macclesfield Youth Brass Band’s principal cornet player George Wright has won the prize for the Best Junior Cornet Player at the Staleybridge contest during the recent Whit Friday Marches. He was presented with a shield at a concert in aid …
Read more →Rex Richardson with Tubalate and some of the ‘retiring’ youth band members Star Studded Night of Brass in Macclesfield Macclesfield Youth Brass Band’s Spring concert turned out to be a quite remarkable event lat Saturday at Macclesfield Aca…
Read more →Adjudicator’s remarks MYBB Training Band Newcastle under Lyme Festival for Music, Speech and Drama 16 th March 2013 Very smart and disciplined Chorale (Schumann) You achieve a very appropriate “Lento” at the outset in the full band – nicely…
Read more →The Macclesfield Youth Brass Band Slow Melody Contest took place on March 3rd. It was adjudicated by Steve Critchlow who had some tough decisions to make but gave lots of advice and encouragement. Thank you and well done to all who entered!…
Read more →Here’s an interesting one, a producer from the BBC rang tonight to ask us to pass on this information to our youth band members. Early days, but they are looking for some non- classical young musicians to work with Fazer from NDubz (is that…
Read more →This is an email received from a gentleman in Northern Ireland who has been watching our Menin Gate video. This is what he said… “Last night I gave a presentation on THE GREAT WAR to folks all in their 70’s, at the end I played SILVER HILL …
Read more →Macclesfield Youth Brass Band is celebrating achieving a Gold Award at The National Youth Brass Band Championships of Great Britain held at the Royal Northern College of Music inManchester. The band just missed out on a podium finish in the…
Read more →Liz Hudson, one of the founder Trustees of Macclesfield Youth Brass Band, has been awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by Macclesfield Castle Rotary Club. “Paul Harris was the founder of Rotary International,” explained Rotarian Sue Bowen at t…
Read more →The Macclesfield Youth Brass Band Slow Melody Contest took place on 26th February. The results were as follows. Age 7 or 8 1. Jess Hall 2. Hetty Hill Age 9 or 10 1. = Ailsa Hay and Sam Wood 2. = Ella Banks, Kieran Shaughnessy and Roisin Mid…
Read more →Members of the Cheshire Police Drum Corps travelled from all over Cheshire, despite the snow, to show the keen youngsters at Macclesfield Youth Brass Band just what a drum corps can do. Around 15 of MYBB’s own percussionists, aged 7 to 17 y…
Read more →Macclesfield Youth Brass Band is hosting a Drum Corps Workshop with the help of Cheshire Police Band Drum Corps this Sunday 5th February at Morton Hall on Union Road in Macclesfield. The event is open to budding young drummers aged from 7 y…
Read more →For a fun night out between Christmas and New Year come along to Broken Cross Club on Thursday 29th December for a Meatloaf tribute night featuring Stars in Their Eyes winner Terry Nash (he also does Blues Brothers and there is a disco). Ho…
Read more →Members of Macclesfield Youth and Junior bands will be playing carols at 7pm in Victoria Park on Friday 23rd December. The bandstand will be festooned with lights as locals celebrate the launch of the new Friends of Victoria Park group.
Read more →All of the bands will perform at our annual Christmas concert at St Michaels in the marketplace, Macclesfield. Starts 7pm. Tickets £4 and £2 children. To reserve your tickets please contact us.
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