Today feels a little weird, because instead of rushing around, packing up and heading away, we are spending Easter at home. You see, the Australian Brass Band Championships are held every year at Easter….hundreds of brass players and percussionists arrive on mass to compete in the various grades. This year, the destination is Gawler…a town […]
Sadly, we had another funeral today…yet another loss to cancer. But despite the grief and loss felt by those who attended, today turned out to be a really lovely farewell. He was very much involved in the brass band community, as a player, conductor and adjudicator, and there are many musicians around Australia who are […]
Last week, I wrote about my husband retiring from playing in brass bands, but there is one band that he is still involved in…and it is a brand new one. Over the weekend, about 30 or so brass and percussion players gathered to put in some long hours rehearsing…Victoria Brass was in session for it’s […]
Yesterday, another chapter in our lives closed…my husband played at his last brass band competition as he is going to take some time off. Brass bands have been a part of our lives forever…we actually met through being in the same band. He was…and still is…a top cornet player and conductor who had grown up […]
Despite feeling sad that we were missing out THE blogging event of the year happening up on the Gold Coast, we ended up having a fun weekend away in Ballarat! We stayed in a fabulous place….which I will write about in the next few days… Despite it raining while we were out walking on Friday […]
Last night I went to a show that literally blew my mind…Rotunda is performed by the New Zealand Dance Company, and features music performed live on stage by one of Australia’s best brass bands, Darebin City Brass. Now I have to admit I would not have gone to see it if my husband wasn’t playing […]
Last week, I wrote about how the Australian brass band landscape has changed…To Win at All Costs…and it certainly stirred up some quite enthusiastic discussion. That post has between viewed hundreds of times since then, as well as being shared, and I have read through each comment made on the blog and social media, plus […]
We are currently attending the Australian National Brass Band Competition, which is being held in Sydney. Every year, bands converge into a location, to compete in various grades, in the hope to be victorious as Australian champions. As always with these contests, there is a lot of waiting around, which allows for some socialising and […]