Welcome to St Alban's Wind Band Cardiff
St Alban's Wind Band Cardiff is a friendly community wind band with over 125 years of history, based in Whitchurch in Cardiff. We play a range of music from traditional wind band pieces to marches, musicals, film, pop and classical.
New players of any wind instruments or percussion are always welcome to come along and meet the band. The band is made up of players of all ages and abilities from those who have played in childhood and fancied picking up their instrument again, adult learners to those who have made a career from music.
New players of any wind instruments or percussion are always welcome to come along and meet the band. The band is made up of players of all ages and abilities from those who have played in childhood and fancied picking up their instrument again, adult learners to those who have made a career from music.
LATEST NEWS
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Looking forward to our Christmas concert, come and join us on 17 December 2022 at Ararat Baptist Church 7pm to get you in the festive mood. Featuring lots of family favourites including the Polar Express, White Christmas, Baby it's Cold Outside and many more. Tickets are available in advance from the band by contacting us on stalbanswindbandcardiff@btinternet.com or from the Ark Cafe at the church.
Looking forward to our Christmas concert, come and join us on 17 December 2022 at Ararat Baptist Church 7pm to get you in the festive mood. Featuring lots of family favourites including the Polar Express, White Christmas, Baby it's Cold Outside and many more. Tickets are available in advance from the band by contacting us on stalbanswindbandcardiff@btinternet.com or from the Ark Cafe at the church.
Remembrance Concert
The band were really proud to raise over £600 for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal at our remembrance concert on 12 November 2022. It was a fantastic evening with some excellent music making with supporting visuals and film clips making a special atmosphere. Our thanks go to our musical director Geraint Barnes for all his planning and preparation work, our compere Ceri Stennett, the Whitchurch Branch of the Royal British Legion and standard bearer Colin Davies, CPS Printers in Caerphilly for the tickets and programmes, Gareth Witts and all at Ararat Baptist Church for allowing us to use the venue for rehearsals as well as the concert, and finally to the band members for all their hard work in preparing for the concert and providing some very yummy cakes for the interval!
The band were really proud to raise over £600 for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal at our remembrance concert on 12 November 2022. It was a fantastic evening with some excellent music making with supporting visuals and film clips making a special atmosphere. Our thanks go to our musical director Geraint Barnes for all his planning and preparation work, our compere Ceri Stennett, the Whitchurch Branch of the Royal British Legion and standard bearer Colin Davies, CPS Printers in Caerphilly for the tickets and programmes, Gareth Witts and all at Ararat Baptist Church for allowing us to use the venue for rehearsals as well as the concert, and finally to the band members for all their hard work in preparing for the concert and providing some very yummy cakes for the interval!
Remembrance Concert - 12 November 2022
Looking forward to our next concert full of thought provoking music and images in aid of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal at Ararat Baptist Church in Whitchurch at 7.30pm. We would especially like to welcome our special guest compere Ceri Stennett. Tickets are available in advance from the band or from the Ark Cafe at the church.
Brecon Jazz - 12 August 2022
Our first visit to Brecon Jazz - and what an experience playing in the amazing setting of Brecon Cathedral, made even better by the cool temperature in there on one of the hottest days of the year! We played a range of stage and screen music in the first half including a beautiful rendition of Cinema Paridiso by our principal clarinettist (listen again at Cinema Paradiso featuring Principal Clarinet Julia Barton live at Brecon Jazz 2022 - YouTube). The second half upped the tempo for some partying! We're already looking forward to our next visit in 2023.
Our first visit to Brecon Jazz - and what an experience playing in the amazing setting of Brecon Cathedral, made even better by the cool temperature in there on one of the hottest days of the year! We played a range of stage and screen music in the first half including a beautiful rendition of Cinema Paridiso by our principal clarinettist (listen again at Cinema Paradiso featuring Principal Clarinet Julia Barton live at Brecon Jazz 2022 - YouTube). The second half upped the tempo for some partying! We're already looking forward to our next visit in 2023.
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Movie night concert We had a fantastic movie night concert featuring special guests, female acapella group City Sirens (citysirenscardiff.co.uk). Playing to a sell-out audience at Whitchurch Methodist Church who enjoyed a wide range of music from films across the ages with some dancing and singing along the way. Check out our you tube channel for a bit of Disney Into The Unknown - A Night At The Movies 2022. and other clips! |
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2022 Events
We are looking forward to the events that we planned so far across 2022 at Whitchurch Methodist Church and Ararat Baptist Church. Lots of new music to enjoy. Watch this space for more information. |
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Christmas Concert We enjoyed our Christmas concert at St Mary's Church on Saturday the 18 December and are looking forward to being there again next year. Congratulations to Liz for winning the Christmas jumper with her massive baubles! |
New Conductor
The band is really please to announce that we have a new conductor - Geraint Barnes is joining us as we get back to playing and we are really looking forward to working with him and making some great music with some exiting ideas for the future of the band. We'd also like to thank Geraint Hilbourne for all his work with the band over the past couple of years and for many years previously. He's stepping back due to work commitments but will still be making a guest appearance on trombone from time to time.
Rehearsals
And we are back. Really happy to say that rehearsals will re-commence on Monday 27 September 2021. A full risk assessment has been completed to make rehearsals as safe as we can. See you there!!!
The band is really please to announce that we have a new conductor - Geraint Barnes is joining us as we get back to playing and we are really looking forward to working with him and making some great music with some exiting ideas for the future of the band. We'd also like to thank Geraint Hilbourne for all his work with the band over the past couple of years and for many years previously. He's stepping back due to work commitments but will still be making a guest appearance on trombone from time to time.
Rehearsals
And we are back. Really happy to say that rehearsals will re-commence on Monday 27 September 2021. A full risk assessment has been completed to make rehearsals as safe as we can. See you there!!!