Woodley Concert Band is an award-winning, high quality wind band based in Woodley, near Reading in Berkshire.
We’re a warm, welcoming band and we’re proud of the extremely high standard we achieve, the variety of engagements we carry out and our thriving social scene!
If you’re a brass, woodwind or percussion player looking for a friends, good quality wind band to join– why not come and try us?
Our broad repertoire challenges our musicians and entertain our audiences.
Interested? Click here for more information and then please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
Posted on Sunday February 21st, 2021
It's been almost a year since our last rehearsal and this week, we finally got back together...kind of!🎵 Our first ever Zoom rehearsal included scales, articulations and work on note lengths, just like a normal rehearsal, and we all started to remember what it's like to play music in the company of other people! Due to the technical limitations of Zoom (there's a huge d..e..l..a..y..), we unfortunately can only play with our microphones muted, but it was great for the band to be able make music with each other in some form again. MD Claire took us through the piece which we've selected for our next virtual recording, pointing out pitfalls and the way that different sections should be played, and we had a chance to try out fiddly passages and play along with a recording of the piece too.
Hopefully, it won't be *too* long before we're able to get back together in real life but in the meantime, it was fantastic to get back to some communal music-making and we hope to have another rehearsal soon!
