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Bristol Brass Consort would like to say a big thank you the very generous customers of The Merchants Arms in Hotwells for contributing over £213 to the British Heart Foundation last night. All we had to do was turn up and have a good time playing Carols & drink some excellent Bath Ales beer. Thanks also to the Merchants Arms, our favourite little boozer, for facilitating the event… Continue reading

Due to the atrocious weather conditions our Carol services in Weston Super Mare today (20th) and tomorrow (21st) have been cancelled, as as our concert at Arnos Vale cemetery chapel tomorrow evening. We’re still hoping that our festivity gig at the Merchants Arms will go ahead on Wednesday (22nd) evening. A slightly downbeat ending to our generally very successful 25th birthday year… Continue reading

Just to point out that our concert on 15th May at Trinity Henleaze United Reform Church has been cancelled. Wish I hadn’t turned down that gig with the Berlin Phil. now… Continue reading

As you may have see from our event diary or Facebook  page, or even the post from 31st January (which I’d completely forgotten I’d written until I started writing this), we are off to Paris in March for a couple of joint concerts  arranged by KA Brass of Paris. This post is just to point you to their website and to thank… Continue reading

This is the first post in the newly designed Wordpress based web site. Heaven knows how long it will stay like this, Wordpress provides a constant temptation to fiddle with the site whilst it crashes and burns around you. So the design is prety much in place but rough edges have to smoothed over and a lot of the content needs attention. Any glaring errors/problems/nastiness then just leave a comment… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Well, the concert in Cheddar on the 22nd of January went quite well with plenty of positive feedback. We were very pleased to be able to share part of the concert with the Cheddar Valley Music Club Senior Brass Ensemble, a very talented bunch of lads who are a credit to Anne Higgs of the Somerset Music Service who runs and directs the group. Next up for us is a… Continue reading

Well this is the first post of our 25th Birthday year. It’s also the first post to appear only on our new(ish) worpress based blog. There is still a lot of stuff to do and the old static html/css site is still up but over the next few weeks it will all be transferred here. Hopefully. And before the 50th birthday. Oh, and here’s a variant of our new logo… Continue reading

Two posts in two days, we’re on a roll.

Anyway - a date not to be missed - 4th October 2008 – 7.30 pm

Bristol Brass Consort (Very Big Version) PRESENTS !

• Mussorgsky (arr Elgar Howarth) Pictures at an Exhibition
• Strauss Festmusik der Stadt Wien
• Koetsier Symphony for Brass
• Sibelius (arr

Just posting to try and get some momentum going on this blog. As usual we have the usual suspects lined up for our small number of Christmas concerts this year. Tomorrow night might be a little different however, and not too sure what to expect as we’re contributing to a concert by the pindrop club which will be new to me although some of the consort have had dealings… Continue reading

The wedding gig on Saturday went very well for the quintet. Even our sight reading of Sousa’s “Semper Fidelis” march was fine despite it being a 10 piece arrangement and each of us having to cover two parts. Having the appropriate music to play is of course, all part of our unique Bristol Brass “Gig Management System” (GMS) ™. Still, the bride was lovely and there was a fee… Continue reading