Welcome to the New Buckenham Silver Band website!

123 years old  in 2009 and still making music....

We are a jolly bunch aged from 14 - 87 with grade 5+ ability to teaching grade 8+, a massive library of music and we play each Thursday night at New Buckenham Village Hall in Norfolk from 8 - 10pm.   Beginners start at 7pm with Pauline. 

So, what have we been up to lately?  Well, on Sunday 4th. October, Carl, Pauline, Wendy, Gerry and I attended the East Anglian Brass Band Training Day  at  St. Andrew's Hall in Norwich.  Tutors from The Brighouse and Rastrick Band - Stephen Wilkinson, Melvyn Bathgate, Gary McPhee, Mike Howley and Simon Gresswell - put us through our paces.  ' New Colonial March',' Ellers' (a hymn arrangement),' Kingdom' - based on the 'O Come O Come Emmanuel' carol and 'All that Jazz' were nobly attempted!  Fantastic arrangements and a real sense of the community of music was so uplifting that all of us want to attend next year too

 NB was joined by members of Watton Silver, Martlesham, Cawston, Hellesdon & Sprowston, Dereham  Town and Taverham Brass - 66 of us in total.  It was great to meet other band members and talk about what we were playing, how we were playing(!), and who was doing what where, etc.  Brass players need to stick together and help each other's bands out whenever we can!      C'mon, let's shake up the schools and wake up the talent that is within them to enjoy a life of  fun and opportunity  that only playing music can bring!

OLD BUCKENHAM, ATTLEBOROUGH, ECCLES, KENNINGHALL, BANHAM, HARLING, ROCKLANDS, GREAT ELLINGHAM, CARLEON RODE and all in between, come and learn to play brass with us!  Bring your rellies, the golden oldies, the ones who gave up in their 20's, get a babysitter, turn off the telly, put the laptop on standby and get your hands on top quality lottery funded brass instruments and percussion!  Shake those maraccas and bang the drum for your local silver band.

In fact, if you're reading this, why don't you ring up your local school and enquire as to what they offer their pupils in the way of brass instrument tuition?  Find out if they can supply a free instrument with free tuition and an unlimited supply of music..*  WE ARE A SAFE BAND.

What else?    Ogden Court in Wymondham - lovely again and 3 birthdays to celebrate! 

Oh yes, Rememberance Sunday - we were busy at Attleborough, Hingham, Old Buckenham, Scole, New Buckenham and Deopham Aerodrome with LP and Reveille ,but we did not have enough band members to play the hymns in St. Marys' Church for the first time in a decade.  Absolutely dreadful and shaming towards our community and the memory of those brave men, women and children who died for our present freedom.  Where are all you brass players?  Even if you don't belong to a brass band - any band - just come along and play with us in the church.  It's a once a year job for us yet a lifetime anniversary for others and it means so much.  'Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.'

Also Old Buckenham Methodist Chapel on Thursday 3rd. and many thanks for the delicious eats and drinks afterwards!  Lovely singing - especially 'Marys' Boy' and T'was the Night Before Christmas' poem, loved by everyone.

And so now it's Christmas......Have already played in Diss for the lights switch on - many thanks to Sally and Martin form Watton for their great playing - helped by the mince pies and mulled wine!.  Carols are officially being practised with intermittent 'Holiday Melodies of Yesteryear' to warm the cockles and spread good cheer.  The NBSB will be walking the streets of New Buckenham on Thursday 10th. December, 7pm - 9pm playing Christmas Carols and songs.  We will be collecting (yes we have a licence) donations as we are a charity and our funds need replenishing again...  We do requests (not 'Over the Hills...') and love it when you can join in the carols, especially the children - their little faces so excited as IT REALLY IS NEARLY CHRISTMAS!  So if you have reindeery bells to jingle or tambourines to shake and bang, dust them off!

After our exertions, we will repair to:

Jackie and John in The King's Head  on the green for refreshment and for Tommy  to point out our dynamic abilities with the 'silent pause'...    Our esteemed conductor would like it clarified that he has not been conducting since 1887 and that it is the band that has turned his hair white.  By the way Tom, it's your round.... THERE WILL BE CHIPS  for band members and gingerbeer (lashings of) etc and no doubt we will play there too! 

Meanwhile, check out our engagements page for what's happening this festive season!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!!

Several players from Watton Silver Band often come along for a blow.  We pop along to see them on a Wednesday night 7.30-9  at Barn Rouche, Thetford Road, Watton.

NBSB requires new players due to  6th. Form and University.......

7.00 - beginners

8 - 10 main band

And now a joke.

A band (obviously NOT ours) finally finished the first half of their concert.  The conductor turned to the audience, announced that the interval (and raffle of course - this is the UK)  would now commence and that the band were available for requests to play whatever the listeners wanted in the second half.  Someone shouted 'CARDS'.

*We Can...