City of Cambridge Brass Band

The City of Cambridge Brass Band is a Championship Section brass band and is registered as a Charity under the Charities Commission (no. 1083294). The Band is presently self-financing, income being generated from concerts, fund-raising events, subscription fees and donations. This is used to cover a variety of costs such as buying instruments and music, hiring rehearsal facilities, insurance and contest entry fees. The Band is however, always on the lookout for sponsorship from local businesses.

We play many concerts in and around the Cambridge area in places as different as Ely Cathedral and Chequers Court in Huntingdon! We play an even wider varity of music from Gregson's Laudate Dominum to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, and from Borodin's Polovtsian Dances to Allan's Knight Templar.

If you wish to book the band, please email manager@cambridgeband.co.uk.

Over the last few years the band have:

• played a light programmes of music in local parks, church fairs, and garden shows
• performed at concerts to raise money for other local charities, including the Ely Cathederal Choir's Christmas Concert.
• run a Church Concert Tour playing music from Mozart and Gregson
• at a Wedding in a church just outside Newmarket
• played carols outside Tesco, the Grafton centre, and during the drinks reception of a company's christmas dinner
• played background music and a fanfare for the opening of the new clock at Corpus Chrisit College!

To book the band, please email manager@cambridgeband.co.uk.

Feel free to listen to the band, and look at some pictures of the band on our MySpace site.

Over the years the band has recorded several CDs. A recording from 1982 of the band playing music by Arthur Wills, in Ely Cathedral, under the baton of David Read, is available from Hyperion. Click here to listen to a few sample tracks.