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NCBF 2024/25 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | NORTHAMPTON | LONDON | WARWICK | GLASGOW
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NCBF 2024/25 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | NORTHAMPTON | LONDON | WARWICK | GLASGOW
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NCBF 2024/25 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | NORTHAMPTON | LONDON | WARWICK | GLASGOW
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NCBF 2024/25 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | NORTHAMPTON | LONDON | WARWICK | GLASGOW
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NCBF 2024/25 REGIONAL FESTIVAL
ENTRIES OPEN
OLDHAM | EASTLEIGH | NORTHAMPTON | LONDON | WARWICK | GLASGOW
Regional & National Festival 2024/25 Dates
NCBF Festivals | Band Spaces Available | ENTRY CLOSING DATE |
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Sunday 3rd November 2024 |
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OLDHAM - Crompton House Academy | CLOSED | Closing date: Sunday 6th October 2024 |
Saturday 9th November 2024 | ||
EASTLEIGH - Barton Peveril Sixth Form College | CLOSED | Closing Date: Sunday 13th October 2024 |
Sunday 17th November 2024 |
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NORTHAMPTON - Cripps Hall, Northampton | CLOSED | Closing Date: Sunday 20th October 2024 |
Sunday 24th November 2024 |
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LONDON - Trinity School, Croydon | CLOSED | Closing Date: Sunday 27th October 2024 |
Sunday 1st December 2024 | ||
WARWICK - Warwick Hall, Warwick School | CLOSED | Closing Date: Sunday 3rd November 2024 |
Sunday 19th January 2025 | ||
SCOTLAND - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow | 12 spaces left | Closing Date: Sunday 29th December 2024 |
NCBF National Festival | Wind Band Slots Remaining | Big Band Slots Remaining |
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NCBF National Festival 2025 | By Invitation Only | By Invitation Only |
Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th April 2025 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