Results First Section Hymn - Love Divine 1st Forest of Dean Brass Band 95 2nd AW Parker Drybrook 92 3rd StAustellBand 91 4th Bournemouth Concert Brass 90 5th Lake Wobegone 88

Open letter to UKRI: #PGRs against low pay. Welcomes signatures from all PGRs/PhD #students (regardless of funding source) and from other supporters. There is now 5000 signatures, less than 51 hours since launching. Please sign, share, & support! bit.ly/UKRIStipends #phdlife

Proud to lead Lydney Town Band in their 130th anniversary celebration concert on Saturday. The band played brilliantly to a full house, and it was great to join forces with Lydney Training Band for our first ever massed band finale as an organisation. A fabulous evening! 🎼🎶🎺

Dunne to tell his mental health story: A new regular blog will see the award winning tenor horn player Ross Dunne tell his mental health story to help others. dlvr.it/SbgHmr

Congratulations to Lydney Town Band 2nd place in S3 of WychavonFoB L-R MD Thomas Dunne Best Soloist Dr Samantha Ford (Sammy) Youngest Player Edward Jury Lydney Town Band Gloucestershire Brass Band Association

S3 WychavonFoB Lydney Town Band

So, Wychavon… We came SECOND!!! 😁 Our solo horn,Dr Samantha Ford (Sammy) , won Best Soloist and Edward, won Youngest Percussionist (he’s only 11!)

Thrilled to conduct Lydney Town Band to 2nd place in the Third Section of WychavonFoB yesterday! Really proud of this fantastic team. A big congratulations as well to Dr Samantha Ford (Sammy) for winning the Best Soloist award with a sublime memorised 'Over the Rainbow'. A great day! 🎼🎶🎺

Very proud to lead Lydney Town Band this year - we've had a fabulous time making high quality music at both contests and concerts, and notably celebrating the bands 130th anniversary along the way! More to come in 2023 - I can't wait! 🎺🎶

Opinions differ on PM's maths commitment in education: Critics feel that Rishi Sunak's approach to numeracy will come at the expense of a commitment to investment in other education subjects- including music. dlvr.it/SgQRR4

A few highlights from the WEBBA Regional Finals in Torquay. Enormous thanks to our Musical Director, Thomas Dunne, for all his work over the last few months! Onwards and upwards to our summer programme! ☀️😎⛱️

Wowzers! What a concert! Thank you so much to everyone that came out to watch us at Ross-on-Wye Bandstand this afternoon - you were a fantastic audience and hopefully we earned our post-concert ice creams 😅

We came third!!! 😁😁😁 Congratulations to Kerry Ford for winning the Dave Hodgetts Memorial Trophy for Outstanding Contribution 🥳 Many thanks to the organisers of the WychavonFoB for a fabulously run day ☺️

Music matters now more than ever - and particularly in our schools. My piece in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times

Delighted that my report from my Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences-funded internship with Welsh Government last year has been published! The project gathers early insights into the Virtual School Model for care-experienced children in Welsh local authority pilots. To read: gov.wales/virtual-school…

Very proud of Dr Samantha Ford (Sammy)!

There’s just ten days to go until our 2024 Celebration Concert! 🙈🎶

A very worthwhile read about the importance of music in schools.

Everyone from Lydney Town and Training Bands are sending every ounce of good wishes to Kenand Roger, who are shortlisted in today’s Brass Bands England Awards in the Services to Youth category! They have made a huge difference to both bands and we’re incredibly proud of them both ☺️🎶

Our win at WychavonFoB on Saturday was the band’s first win at a contest in 22 years! We would like to thank Thomas Dunne for all of his hard work over the last few months on The Tale of the Princess & the Dragon and working with the band to create a musical fairytale 🐉👸