Bendigo Brass

The City of Greater Bendigo Brass Band presents Brass Night of the Proms: A Celebration of Brass will be held on Sunday, 17th November, starting at 2pm at the Capital Theatre in View Street, Bendigo. Get your tickets at the Capital Box Office.

The band has had a very successful 2019, winning at the Bendigo Competitions and placing 3rd at the Victorian State Championships.

This November they bring their award winning music to audiences in Bendigo, celebrating the wonderful playing of committed band members. Join MC Chris Emond while the band features all the different sections of the band as well as soloists and duets.

The concert will also feature the Proms classics that our audiences have some to love. Prepare to sing along to Rule Brittania, Land of Hope and Glory and many more. Please join us for a flag waving, exciting afternoon of music.

The Bendigo community turned out in force for the two ceremonies that the band played at on ANZAC Day 2019. A very large crowd sat and stood for the service at Huntly starting at 9am. Later in the morning Pall Mall was lined with an excellent crowd for the annual march and it was then standing room only for the 11am service at the RSL.

Well done again to Don for leading the band during the march and a special well done to Cally for keeping us on track for the hymns and national anthems. Also congrats to both Fred (Bendigo) and Luka (Huntly) for excellent renditions of the last post.

(Photo from Kate Emond’s video)

The band did itself proud over the Easter 2019 weekend with some outstanding marching in both the Torchlight Procession (Saturday) and the big Gala Parade (Sunday). This year the band kept the huge crowds entertained with a quick paced version of YMCA. We also made use of our colourful plastic instruments to brighten up our presentation.

Well done to Don for leading us through both processions.

(Photo courtesy of the Bendigo Advertiser)

For Australia Day, the band was out in full strength at both the breakfast event at Maiden Gully and then at Lake Weeroona at Midday. Some great Australian music was played. Well done to Cally and Brendan for their excellent new arrangements of some well known Austrlian pop numbers. Oi..!