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.
Regent Brass is proud to welcome back our followers to our website following a long absence owing to technical issues… a huge thank you goes to Joey Gold who helped to resolve the issues we’d seen, upgrade our database and PHP version and get us back online!
Clearly some individuals within Regent Brass were anxious to get a weekend by the seaside – and what better place to go than Blackpool, especially with the annual British Open qualification contests in the next weeks?! Regent’s MD, Alan Duguid, baritone player Steve Rongevær-Boother, and Emily Peart from our tuba team are all delighted to be assisting Aveley and Newham band at Blackpool in their performance of Hubert Bath’s classic, ‘Freedom’ which is the set test in the Senior Cup…
Both Regent Brass and Regent Community Brass took their places at their London & Southern Counties regional qualification contests last weekend. For both bands it was a fantastic opportunity to re-establish our links to colleagues in the brass band movement, lots of whom we hadn’t seen since the 2019 event. For Regent Brass it was a case of what might have been – the band produced an account of Gilbert Vinter’s ‘Spectrum’ which, in the words of 4BarsRest, was a…
Regent Brass and Regent Community Brass presented a joint concert at our rehearsal venue, Chalk Farm Salvation Army hall, last night where we shared each other’s preparations for the upcoming London and Southern Counties regional finals (the ‘Areas’). We were invited by the Salvation Army to put on the event, which was free and attended by members of the community, including some of the homeless from the surrounding area, which the Army does so much to support. Our sister band,…
