NEWS
A second successive year at the Nationals for TTB!
On Saturday 14th September 2024, the Band attended the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain for the second successive year. This year's test piece was 'The Shipbuilders' by Peter Yorke. With great musical imagery, it is written in four movements: Web of...
Honouring 50 years long and loyal service from Bob Tattersdale
Picture the scene... it's 1974... it's the year of the Three-Day week, two general elections, the disappearance of Lord Lucan, a state of emergency in Northern Ireland, and our first post-war recession. But there were glimmers of light and hope as well... ABBA win...
Introducing our new Principal Cornet!
(June 2014) We're pleased to announce the appointment of our new Principal Cornet, Emily Roberts. Emily works as a brass teacher for Northamptonshire Music And Performing Arts Trust. She joins us from the Brass Band of Central England (formerly the Jaguar...
Third Section Champions at first time of asking!
On Sunday March 3rd 2024, following our success winning the Fourth Section in 2023, the band competed once again at the Midlands Regional Finals, but in the Third Section for the first time. The piece was titled "Corineus" - a beautifully melodic, but very technical...
Player spotlight
Player Spotlight We are delighted to put the spotlight on our young percussionist Annabel Halcrow. Annabel has been a familiar face with the band for a long time as her Mum (Alison), Dad (Ed), Sister (Amey) and Brother in Law (Alex) all play in the band. So following...
Thrapston’s first National Finals!
At least we think it's our first-ever National Finals... Certainly in the "modern era", it most certainly is! And what a journey it's been. Just 3 years to get to this point. Back in late 2019, we had conversations alongside our (at the time) new MD, Nathan...
We are the Champions!
Thrapston Town Band win the Midlands brass band championships and qualify for the national finals. Thrapston Town Band is celebrating its 165th year in style, by qualifying for the National Finals of the Brass Band Championships in Cheltenham later this year. On...
Busy 2023!
Here at Thrapston Town Band it’s been a busy start to the year as we have spent the last several weeks preparing for the Midlands Area Contest on Saturday 4th March. In addition we’ve been keeping up with our commitment to teaching with our learners class taking place...
Cornet vacancies
We are a sociable and hard-working band in Northamptonshire. This year we came 3rd in the Midlands Areas 4th Section under the baton of our MD, Nathan Waterman. We are committed to improving further as an ensemble. We now have only a couple of cornet positions to fill...
New Flugel player joins our band
We are excited to announce that Diana Randle has been appointed to the position of Flugelhorn with Thrapston Town Band. Diana started her playing career with TTB at the age of 10 as a learner on cornet. She went on to play with other bands including Northants County...