St Peters by the Waterfront, College Street, Ipswich.
Saturday 13th April 7pm
Castleton Brass, Colchester Brass Band, Classic Brass Band and East Coast Sinfonietta combine to present a fundraising concert to raise money to assist Alfie Orvis to represent England at the IBD Bowling world chamionships in South Africa in May 2024.
Please call Annette on 07724918061 or Frankie on 07960023727 to book tickets.
On Sunday 31st October, 10 players from Castleton Brass attended the East Anglian Brass Band Association’s Brass Training Day, with tutors from Cory band. It was a fantastic day enjoyed by all, and we’d like to thank the EABBA and Cory for all their hard work to make it such a brilliant day.
10 players from Castleton Brass attended the East Anglian Brass Band Association’s Brass Training Day on 20th October, with tutors from Foden’s band. It was a fantastic day enjoyed by all, and we’d like to thank the EABBA and Foden’s for all their hard work to make it such a brilliant day.
On Sunday 17th March, the band travelled to Stevenage for the annual London and Southern Counties Brass Band Contest. We played in the 2nd Section, against 17 other bands, and are proud to announce that we came 8th! The band played really well, and we would like to thank everyone for all of their hard work and determination, but especially Pete, our Musical Director. Our result means that we have also secured our position in the 2nd section for 2020.
On Sunday 18th March 2018, Castleton Brass will once again be heading to the Regional Contest in Stevenage. This time, following our promotion last year, we will be competing in the Second Section. We’re hoping to make history as the first band to win the Fourth, Third and Second Sections in consecutive years at the London and Southern Counties Contest. As added encouragement, the band have recently been featured in the Diss Express newspaper.
The full online version of this story can also be found here
On Sunday 17th September 2017, Castleton Brass competed in the National Brass Band Championships in Cheltenham. It was the third year running that we qualified, but the first time we qualified in the Third Section. We are extremely proud that the band claimed Fourth place!
We would like to thank everyone who supported us on our journey to this success, and we look forward to the new challenges that the Second Section brings in March 2018.
We won the 3rd section at the London and Southern Counties area contest 18th March 2017 at Stevenage Arts Centre.
Our MD was awarded the Conductors Prize
We won the 4th section at the London and Southern Counties area contest 20th March 2016.
September 19th 2015 was the day of the National Finals.
We had qualified by being placed 2nd in our area contest which was held at Stevenage in May.
We spent a long time and much energy working on the finals piece ‘Visions’, a very difficult piece for a 4th section band, but we all grew to like it.
We drew 19th out of 19 bands, which meant that we made it on stage at around 9pm, it had been a very long day!
The judges made their decision and we were placed 11th, a good result for a band which had not played in the national contest for over a decade.
We are looking forward to competing next year.