Learning Festival workshops and committee elections

At the Annual General Meeting executive committee members were elected to serve for 2025 were Lesley Crumlish (Brass Sounds Inverclyde), Les Palmer (Newtongrange Silver), Jim Wishart (Brass Central Strathearn), Lorraine Quinn (Galashiels Town), Jim Milligan (Annan Town), Brian Hutchinson (Buckhaven & Methil Miners), Tom Smith (Brass Central Strathearn), Damian Martin (Bon-Accord Silver), Freya McLernan (Galashiels Town) and Georgia Adamson (Whitburn).

After the business of the AGM had concluded, there was a Learning Festival comprising a series of workshops on a number of topics:

Carole Ednie of the cooperation band on performance technique

Robert Fraser of Whitburn Band on “I have handed that out already!” – observations on brass band librarianship

Whitburn Band on the 2025 2nd Section test piece Friendly Takeover by Oliver Waespi

Whitburn Band on the 2025 3rd Section test piece Arkansas by Jacob de Haan

Lynsey McIlwraith of Lochgelly Band on fundraising ideas for your brass band