Saturday 16th October After a Covid lockdown enforced break of 18 months it was fantastic to be back performing a full blown concert at the Verwood Hub on Saturday 16th October. The audience, some 150 strong, certainly welcomed being back too and was thoroughly entertained by each of the bands. Please see the programme contained […]

Sunday 12th September What a totally delightful Sunday afternoon for our first post lockdown concert. The sun was shining . . . 37 players from Verwood Concert Brass Band and Verwood Town Band were raring to perform . . . musical director, Kevin Smith had baton poised . . . a huge crowd of around […]

30th August 2021 It’s fantastic to be back playing. Today was the first public performance by VCB in Verwood since Christmas 2019. A combination of players from Verwood Concert Brass Band and Verwood Town Band, under the direction of Kevin Smith, performed a number of sets of music at the Verwood Rotary Rustic Fayre. It […]

We are getting closer and closer to when we might be able to start rehearsing together and roll on the day when we can actually give live performances. But until then enjoy this great piece played by Verwood Training Band – “Swingin’ with the Mountain King” arranged by Matt Kingston – together with a great […]

It was with deep sadness that we learned of the death of Nigel Tiller yesterday following his long battle with kidney cancer.Where does one being to describe Nigel and the sadness and loss so many people feel from his passing. “Stalwart” is somewhere to start – not an elegant sounding word but its meaning so […]

Verwood Training Band wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. All at Verwood Concert Brass look forward to the time we can be making music together and performing to live audiences again.

Unfortunately due to Covid-19 restrictions, Verwood Concert Brass is unable to perform the Verwood Remembrance day service On this Remembrance Sunday in 2020: We will miss playing at the church service.We will miss leading the parade with the British Legion march.We will miss one of our cornet players sounding the last post.We will miss playing […]

We will party like it’s 1999 All the bands of Verwood Concert Brass have had massive fun and great experiences from making ‘distance banding’ videos during Covid Lockdown – they are all here on Facebook. But we decided we would do just one more and so it had to be BIG and it had to […]

Mellow Out with Verwood Town Band Here is our latest ‘distance banding’ video. It’s the lovely arrangement by Peter Graham of the traditional Māori lullaby “Hine e Hine”. Well done Town Band it sounds fabulous and many thanks to bass player Josh and his dad Neil for piecing all the individual player videos together. We […]