Regent Brass are a British Brass Band, based at Chalk Farm, North London. Musical Director is Alan Duguid, and the band is currently in the Championship Section of the National Grading Tables. We rehearse on Thursdays from 1930, at the Salvation Army church, Chalk Farm, NW3 2BL.
Regent Community Brass was formed in 2012 as an expansion to the Regent Bands and welcomed our musical director Simon Tong in December 2021. If you are interested in playing with us, we rehearse on Tuesday in East Finchley.
We would like to share the following video review from the recent DFDS Seaways Contest that Regent Brass successfully participated in earlier this year. It features our winning Soloist Tetsuro Okamura and short extracts of performances and interviews from other prize winners. Enjoy!
Regent Brass make the World Rankings!! For the first time, Regent Brass have appeared in the 4BarsRest.com brass band world rankings. The rankings were created a number of years ago to try and settle the age old issue of which band is the best, most consistent at contest, and to provide players with bragging ammunition for pre and post contest “discussions”. One a serious note, they are used from time to time by some contest organisers when choosing which bands to…
Regent Brass will be attending the annual SCABA Entertainment Contest which will be held in the Hawth, Crawley. For more information see the SCABA website.
The band recently competed at the London and Southern Counties Regional Area Qualifying Contest on 18th March, in the Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. This competition is arguably the biggest of the year, as not only does it determine the bands’ grading for competition purposes, but also provides qualification for the famous National Finals, held in the Royal Albert Hall. Drawing the dreaded number 1 slot, the band competed against a strong field of 12 other championship section bands performing Derek…
