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NCBF 2025/26 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | LONDON | NORTHAMPTON | CARDIFF | TELFORD | GLASGOW
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NCBF 2025/26 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | LONDON | NORTHAMPTON | CARDIFF | TELFORD | GLASGOW
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NCBF 2025/26 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | LONDON | NORTHAMPTON | CARDIFF | TELFORD | GLASGOW
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NCBF 2025/26 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | LONDON | NORTHAMPTON | CARDIFF | TELFORD | GLASGOW
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NCBF 2025/26 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | LONDON | NORTHAMPTON | CARDIFF | TELFORD | GLASGOW
Regional & National Festival 2025/26 Dates
NCBF Festivals | Band Spaces Available | ENTRY CLOSING DATE |
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Sunday 2nd November 2025 |
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OLDHAM - Crompton House Academy | AVAILABLE | Closing date: Sunday 5th October 2025 |
EASTLEIGH - Barton Peveril Sixth Form College | AVAILABLE | Closing Date: Sunday 5th October 2025 |
Sunday 16th November 2025 | ||
LONDON - Trinity School, Croydon | AVAILABLE | Closing Date: Sunday 19th October 2025 |
Sunday 23rd November 2025 |
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NORTHAMPTON - Cripps Hall, Northampton | AVAILABLE | Closing Date: Sunday 26th October 2025 |
CARDIFF - Cardiff University | AVAILABLE | Closing Date: Sunday 26th October 2025 |
Sunday 30th November 2025 |
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TELFORD - Haberdashers' Abraham Darby Academy | AVAILABLE | Closing Date: Sunday 2nd November 2025 |
Sunday 18th January 2026 | ||
SCOTLAND - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow | AVAILABLE | Closing Date: Sunday 21st December 2025 |
NCBF National Festival | Wind Band Slots Remaining | Big Band Slots Remaining |
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NCBF National Festival 2026 | By Invitation Only | By Invitation Only |
Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th April 2026 RNCM, Manchester | ||
Regional Festival Finder
Bands enter into their local ncbf regional festival where they perform in front of their peers, parents, audience, and ncbf adjudicators who offer feedback based on the ncbf Award Criteria. Bands are not competing against each other but are critiqued against the various aspects of performance and are awarded a certificate signifying their success: Platinum, Gold Silver or Bronze. Read more about the ncbf festival here
About NCBF
Since its modest beginnings 40 years ago, NCBF - National Concert Band Festival has developed and grown in size and prestige until now it is recognised as the largest, most active, enterprising Festival for wind instrument musicians who play in wind bands or big bands throughout the UK.
The ncbf celebrates and promotes the music and activities of wind bands / jazz bands by holding regional festivals across the UK and a National Festival. The organisation aims to provide unique performing opportunities in a friendly, welcoming and musically enriching environment.
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We are pleased to announce four new initiatives to widen the participation in ncbf.
ncbf Digital | ncbf at Home | ncbf Youth Ambassadors | ncbf Young Composers Scheme