Saturday 27th July A lovely afternoon for playing at Luscombe Valley where a private garden is opened to the public to share the delights of the gardens along with a varied ‘steam’ collection, including rides on a miniature railway around the grounds. Well done to Will Cainen, who plays cornet in Verwood Concert Brass Band, […]

Sunday 14th July – Principal Band

The Verwood Concert Brass summer concert held on Saturday 6th July was “Out of this World”. It was a fantastic and fun event but to claim it was out of this world might be a bit pretentious were it not for the fact that it related to the theme of the concert. It was 50 […]

Saturday 15th June The Training band were once again invited to play at the bi-annual Fete at Cranborne manor. Despite the wet weather at the start. The Fete went ahead as planned and the turnout was excellent. No sooner had they declared the event open, did the weather take a turn for the better. The […]

Sunday 9th June The Verwood Town Band had a great time playing at The White Horse Inn at Stourpaine on Sunday evening. Thank you to The White Horse for inviting us and for your hospitality. Also for these fabulous photos including some great aerial shots (Reminder for next time – polish inside the instrument bells!). […]

The Verwood Concert Brass Ensemble were very honoured to have been asked to play at the Tarrant Rushton airfield D-Day commemorations which were held on Sunday 2nd June 2019. If you saw our posting of the Verwood Training Band playing in damp conditions then that’s nothing compared to the down pour the ensemble got caught […]

The weather forecast for 3pm on Sunday 2nd June was not looking favourable for an open air concert but the Verwood Training Band are made of sturdy stuff . . . and so are many of our supporters. It was decided that the show would go on so everyone set to in setting up and […]

Monday 27th May Verwood Concert Brass were delighted to take part in the Verwood Carnival procession as it has done ever since the carnival started in 1929 – so 90 years! It was brilliant to have players from all parts of the VCB i.e. Verwood Concert Brass Band, Verwood Town Band, Verwood Training Band and […]

Saturday 18th May Newsflash – contest result. Verwood Concert Brass came 3rd!!! A fantastic result for the band in their first time competing in the Spring Festival Senior Trophy contest in Blackpool. They were up against 19 other bands from around the UK with 13 of them being ranked higher than VCB in the world […]

The Band was saddened to hear the news about David Williams who died on May 4th. David was a member of the Training Band for many years and when the Town Band was formed, he became one of the third cornet players as well as often helping out behind the scenes. Unfortunately David had to […]