Community directory

Letchworth Garden City Band

Venue: Brotherhood Hall, Gernon Road, Letchworth (opposite Broadway Cinema).
Times: Wednesday evenings 7.45pm-9.45pm.

Founded in 1906, Letchworth Garden City Band has taken part in local community life since the town's earliest days.

Besides enabling amateur brass players to make music together, the band brings enjoyment to audiences at local events of many kinds, including festivals, garden parties, official functions and fund-raising concerts. Joint performances with the band of Wissen, Letchworth's twin town in Germany, have been a feature of several exchange visits in recent years.

The band is funded mainly by its membership fees and by its public performances.

The band has male and female players from secondary school age upwards. There is a core of experienced players, and they welcome newcomers.

Their repertoire is wide, running from 16th-century Tudor dances, through later classical pieces, traditional marches, ragtime, jazz and pop, to arrangements of contemporary film and TV themes.