Pelorus Trust Wellington Brass Band

When: This Sunday February 28th

Where: Harcourt Park, Akatarawa Road, Upper Hutt

Who is playing:

11.00am Upper Hutt Cosmopolitan Club Brass

12.00pm Wellington District Youth Band

1.00pm Hutt City Brass

1.45pm Wellington Brass

2.30pm Trust Porirua City Brass

3.15pm Kapiti Brass

4.00pm Levin and District Brass

Bring a chair and a chilly bin and enjoy an afternoon of music from the
bands of Wellington District.

Throughout December, each week night the Pelorus Trust Wellington Brass Band will be out playing carols around the suburbs of Wellington, and in addition, on Tuesday's will playing from on top of Kirkcaldie and Stains

The 2009 AGM will be held at the bandroom - 27 Collingwood St, Ngaio

Orchestral favourites by Wellington's premier heavy-metal band.

The 2009 Brass Band Championships of NZ are to be held in Napier from 15-19 April. The web page link for the organising committee's arrangements is http://www.championbrass.org.nz.

Pelorus Trust Wellington Brass Band will be competing in the A-grade for the first time in a long time. The A-grade test piece is Philip Wilby's "Paganini Variations".

Pelorus Trust Wellington Brass Band has won the New Zealand B-grade brass band championship title for the second year running. Conductor David Bremner said he was very proud of the band for its consistently high-level of contest performances. "I'm looking forward to the possibility of the band being promoted to the A grade", he said, when the band returned to Wellington.

All the hard work paid off for the band when they won the Australian B-Grade on Easter Sunday, 23 March.

The Australian national contest was held in Brisbane this year and Pelorus Trust Wellington Brass was one of only two NZ bands, with Dalewool, to make the trip across the Tasman.

The band won the Hymn, Own Choice and Test sections and came second in the Stage March, producing an aggregate well clear of the second-placed band.

Attention all supporters of the band!!! Dont miss the Wellington Brass Bands Pre-Australian National Contest Concert. The concert is going to be held on the 19th of March in the Salvation Army Hall, Vivian St, Wellington, tickets are $10 on the door. The concert will not only showcase the sophisticated and highly technichal test pieces (Diversions on a Bass Theme by George Lloydd, and Main Street by Eric Ball) that the band is performing in the contest over easter, but a variety of lighter enteraining numbers aswell as soloists and other fine small ensembles from the band.

It's that time of year again - the time that Wellington Brass Band walk around Wellington suburbs playing Christmas Carols. This year the band is fundraising to attend the Australian National Band Championships in Brisbane.

We're hoping to repeat our success at the 2007 New Zealand Brass Band Championships (we won the 'B' Grade) and show those Aussies a thing or two.