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Welcome
to the website of The Egham Band. We are a friendly community brass
band based in Egham, west Surrey, near London, with a history stretching
back over a hundred years. Our busy engagement list includes community
events such as Remembrance Sunday and local carnivals, along with
concerts with guest soloists, recently including famous tuba soloist
Steve Sykes, and Alan Morrison, principal cornet with the Brighouse
and Rastrick Band. We are also available for private or corporate
events.
We regularly
compete in the first section, both in local contests at Stevenage
and Folkestone and further afield at the Whit Friday Marches, made
famous by the film "Brassed Off", and at the Bugle Contest
in Cornwall.
We are fortunate to own our purpose-built rehearsal hall (with
social club), located close to Egham railway station and Junction
13 of the M25. We rehearse on Monday and Friday from 8 to 10pm.
We always welcome new players, but we're currently looking for good
cornets and basses to complete our contesting band.
Egham
Junior Brass is our training band and has been ably led by George
O'Mara, 1st Horn in the main band, for the past five years. Egham
Junior Brass now has over forty members and puts on its own events.
A rolling recruitment plan is in place for brass and percussion
players.
The band's most recent event was a trip to the Bugle contest, held
near St. Austell in Cornwall, followed by a concert at the Royal
Inn in Par.
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