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Our Freshers' Squash (aka first rehearsal of the year) will take place on 10th October in Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Come along to begin another fun year of music-making! There will be an extended break and refreshments in the middle of the rehearsal to give newcomers a chance to chat and get to know everyone.

For more information on joining the band see here.

At our AGM on the 9th May we elected the new committee for the 2019-20 academic year, who will be as follows:

Chairperson: Oliver John
Musical Director: Daniel Phillips
Junior Treasurer: Jonathan Ford
Secretary: Imogen Lever
Concert Manager: Charlotte Manser
Publicity Officer: Jonathan Ford
Social Secretary: Laura Belt
Librarian: Daniel Phillips
FoCUBB Chairperson: Josh de Gromoboy

* The Contest Secretary and Tour Secretary will be appointed by the new committee at the beginning of next year.

Following the EGM held on 18th October, and having reviewed applications for tour and contest secretary, we can now announce the remaining members of the 2018-19 committee:

Junior Treasurer: Joshua de Gromoboy
Tour Secretary: Charlotte Wood
Contest Secretary: Daniel Phillips

Following our AGM on the 17th May, we are pleased to announce the results of our committee elections. The new committee will be taking over at the end of this academic year, following handover meetings with the current committee members. We wish them the best of luck in organising another great year of music-making and socialising.

The new committee will be as follows:

Chairperson: Robert Turnbull
Musical Director: Daniel Phillips
Junior Treasurer: Fraser Parker
Secretary: Imogen Lever
Concert Managers: Sarah Partridge & Matthew Waterson
Publicity Officer: Jonathan Ford
Social Secretary: Oliver John
Librarian: Charlotte Manser
FoCUBB Chairperson: Josh de Gromoboy

* The Contest Secretary and Tour Secretary will be appointed by the new committee in the coming months.

The band held it's Annual Dinner on Saturday evening (5th May) in Wolfson College, Cambridge. We got dressed up in black tie and enjoyed a lovely formal dinner, before listening to speeches and presenting awards to some of the current members.

Thank you to all the members who came, both past and present, we hope to see you all again next year!

There are only two weeks until we depart on our annual tour. This year we're heading to Cheshire and North Wales for three days for a mixture of playing and sightseeing. If you happen to be in or around Chester on Saturday 24th March, then it would be great to see you at our concert in St John the Baptist Church, Chester.

The band are thrilled to announce that we have finally come away with some silverware. We were delighted to be awarded the prize for the most entertaining band in our section and came 6th overall out of 11 bands. Perhaps most importantly for our university pride, we also triumphed over Oxford :P.

Congratulations to the other bands, it's been a good day of music making! The challenge will be to come up with something as entertaining next year in Bangor (the new host university)...

We're now enroute to UniBrass, York here we come :)

Today is the day; UniBrass is upon us; and it's way too early in the morning to think of something motivational to write.

CUBB will be playing in the Shield Section at around 11:35am in York Barbican (and on the livestream).

Good luck to all bands competing!

The band will once again be competing against other university brass bands from across the country in what promises to be enjoyable day (albeit one with a very early start). We've been hard at work over the last 5 weeks of term preparing our 20 minute entertainment programme which should have some surprises in store for the audience members watching on Saturday (17th February 2018)...

The band will be competing in the UniBrass Shield Section and are due to play at around 11:35am. There will be a (free) live stream of the event so you can tune in to watch our set online if you don't fancy making the trek up to York.

More details about the event can be found here.

Following our trip to Oxford last year, it was our turn to host this year's Brassity event. The day started with a pub lunch at lunch time (surprisingly), and was followed by an afternoon of master classes lead by professional tuba player and conductor, Andrew Kershaw. Under his expert guidance, both bands polished their UniBrass sets ready for the contest on the 17th February. We rounded off the afternoon with a concert in Lee Hall, Wolfson College to an appreciative audience. All that was left was to finish the day with further socialising over a curry.