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25.01.2022 A massive congrats to all the member of GWBB on a fantastic win yesterday at the Victorian State Band Championships held in Ballarat. A big thanks to all the members for their dedication leading up to the contest (especially so short after our Annual Cabaret) as well as our helpers for filling the few holes in our band. We are always greatful for your help and we hope you enjoyed playing with the band A big congrats must also go to Boroondara Brass and Box Hill City Band on... their brilliant performances on the weekend. We were lucky being drawn first that we were able to listen to the other two B Grade bands - and you both played tremendously! We love that there is always such great competition in B Grade in Victoria. A huge thanks to the VBL and the RSSS for continuously putting on a great contest every year. We always enjoy performing at our own States competition - even if Ballarat is not the sunniest of places! Another big thanks to Tim Kelly and the team at Brassbanned for their quality work and streaming over the weekend! Such a brilliant asset to the banding movement to allow people near and far to watch some quality playing over the weekend! Stay tuned to our Facebook page for our upcoming events. GWBB are excited to be preparing a repertoire for the Blue Lakes Brass Festival being held in Mount Gambier in November!

25.01.2022 Geelong West Reindeers on the 2019 Mount Gambier Christmas Parade

24.01.2022 Had a great afternoon at the Annual GWBB Christmas Party. Wed like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy safe New Year. See you all in 2020!

24.01.2022 This ones for you Jeff! We played extra classy for you!

23.01.2022 Tonights the night! Still room to come along and enjoy a great night of music. Tickets can be booked online until 4pm or at the door. You wont regret it! https://geelongindy.com.au//13-/italia-debut-for-big-band/

21.01.2022 Massive congrats to Harrison on his performances today and winning the Junior CoC!

20.01.2022 GWBB - Working the lower brass on a Sunday rehearsal! Hope the cornets have been practicing this weekend! #perth2020

20.01.2022 After all the issues we had with Jetstar yesterday - we all finally made it to Nationals in once piece. Well done on Day 1 Geelong West. You guys played like Champions! #gwbb #jetstarfails #2019brassbandnationals

19.01.2022 Geelong West Brass Band are performing at the Penny Farthing Contest at Geelong West Velodrome. If youre around. Pop in and say hello!

19.01.2022 Well done to all the bands on a fantastic weekend of music!

19.01.2022 Some photos from a great weekend of music at Blue Lakes Brass Festival in Mount Gambier.

18.01.2022 A huge congrats to our award winners at the Geelong West Christmas Party. Congrats to - Callum Edwards - Most Improved Player - Caitlin Taylor - Musician of the Year - Danny OToole and Elizabeth OToole - Most Exemplary Bandspersons - Nicole Perinaise - Attendance Award... A special thanks to Helen Giokas-Smith for presenting a framed photo taken by the late Michael Smith to the band. The photo was taken at the 2017 National Band Championships where the band performed Smithys favorite piece - Paganini Variations. He wasnt just a talented musician - but a very talented photographer capturing everything he loved in one picture. We will take such pride in finding a prime spot in our band room for this beauty. Even though he has left our band room - he will remain in our hearts and in our music.

17.01.2022 Congrats Gwbb on first place at the Victorian State Band Championships!

16.01.2022 Just a reminder of our next open rehearsal on Tuesday 30 October at 7:15PM. Please tag, message or forward to anyone you think may be interested in joining the band, or just coming along to listen! We are particularly looking to recruit percussion and lower brass players, but all are welcome. If you know a good kit percussion player looking for opportunities to play, please alert them to this.

16.01.2022 Please share this post with all your friends, and comment/tag anyone you think may be interested. We are particularly looking for percussion (kit, tuned and auxiliary), and tuba/eupho players, but all are welcome. Next formal open rehearsal is on 30 October starting at 7:15, but new players are welcome at any Tuesday evening rehearsal.... We are NOT your usual brass band! (I am aware that the picture the magazine has used is a trumpet. If you do play trumpet, its fairly easy to switch to cornet!). We have high quality instruments available for loan to members. http://fortemag.com.au/?p=41645

14.01.2022 Were playing down at Geelong Train Station! If youre around come say hello!

13.01.2022 Having a great time out busking! If you see us around sing along with us!

13.01.2022 A big thanks to all our members who performed The Last Post this morning at their homes and paid tribute to our fallen soldiers. Proud of our bandies who always perform at the Dawn Service, and made the special effort this year in these weird circumstances!Lest We Forget.

12.01.2022 GWBB would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and safe new year!

12.01.2022 First place in B Grade at Mount Gambier and a huge congrats to Jeff Steele for winning the MD of the Year Award.

10.01.2022 Hi everyone. We are about to perform for day 2 of the Contest. Running about 30min behind - should be on sometime between 5:00 and 5:30 televised from Brassbanned in Hall 2!

10.01.2022 To all our friends and family - GWBB will be performing on stage at the Victorian State Band Championships at 2:30. Tune into Brassbanned to watch us play!

10.01.2022 Tune in to Brassbanned at 9:30am to hear the B Grade section of the competition. Geelong West will be performing their hymn and test piece selections early in the section - so make sure you tune in and listen to us perform!

10.01.2022 Had a great afternoon at the Annual GWBB Christmas Party. We’d like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy safe New Year. See you all in 2020!

10.01.2022 Geelong West Brass Band at the Mount Gambier Brass band Festival 2019 https://www.youtube.com/playlist

09.01.2022 The gang involved with Star Dust thanks everyone for your dedication and commitment to this fantastic show!

09.01.2022 Hey on it this morning! We will be on stage at 9:30

08.01.2022 Members of the Geelong West Brass Band are involved in this great project StarDust and The Mission. It will be showing at GPAC tomorrow and Friday evening. Tickets are usually $35 but if you use our special promo code community you can get a $20 ticket. A very good price for what will be an amazing show. Get yourself down to see it and support local talent!

07.01.2022 Thats a wrap from the 2019 Brass Band National Championships! What a great weekend had by all. After a not so good start (due to our friends at Jetstar) - we were stoked to hear that Harrison Steele-Holmes won the Junior Tenor Trombone section - and subsequentially went onto win the Junior Champion of Champions He also competed in the Open Tenor Trombone section, and was awarded a 3rd place! Well done Harrison! We completed the marching on Saturday under the guidance of ...our fearless DM Bruno Andrade. Our turn may not have gone down to plan exactly - but we definitely had a great time swaggering down the street to Stevie Wonders Superstition. Well done Bruno and the marching crew on a job well done and a new PB for Bruno After an extremely suspenseful results announcement - GWBB was awarded 2nd overall for the B Grade section - out of a field of 16 competitors. We are absolutely stoked with that result, falling just shy of Waratah by 2 points. A highlight for the band (mainly Jeff) was the bands hymn (Prelude on a hymn tune Lavenham) - which scored us a 2nd place. We also scored 2 3rd places in the test and march. Well done to all the players for their efforts over the weekend. All your hard work, patience, and dedication has paid off with a fantastic result. A huge thanks to the players families and friends for their support during our Nationals campaign. Thanks to our helpers (you know who you are) for complementing our band and helping get us to the competition. Some of you played in more than one band on the weekend / and we cant thank you enough for helping us out too! Big shoutout to Tim and the team at Brassbanned for providing a quality stream of brass bands over the weekend! Big thanks to the NBCA and QBA for organizing the event. Well done to all the bands involved across the weekend, in particular our good friends at City of Greater Dandenong Band (Melbourne) #nongband, Creswick Brass BAND Wonthaggi Citizens Band (who took out the Open C Grade with our very own Jeff Steele on Soprano) A massive thanks also to Jeff Steele (our MD) for constantly pushing us to play better, and extracting the full potential out of the band. We had a great weekend / and now looking forward to the next project after a few weeks off!

06.01.2022 If anyone wants to get behind this wonderful project - we participated in it last year and it was absolutely amazing! Good luck guys!

05.01.2022 A few photos from this mornings march. The turn may not have been perfect but we had fun doing so.

05.01.2022 Just a reminder that we have our open rehearsal tonight at 7:15! Come along if you are interested in joining us, feel free to listen or bring your instrument and join in. Equally, if you are just a supporter and would like to come and listen, you are very welcome. We need supporters!... There will be refreshments including home baked treats! 7:15 - Fairley Lodge, Cnr Hope and Weller Streets, Geelong West. Please forward, share and tag anyone who might be interested!

04.01.2022 Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all have a wonderful day and we look forward to entertaining you in 2021!Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all have a wonderful day and we look forward to entertaining you in 2021!

02.01.2022 What an amazing show to be a part of. Big thanks to Joel, Tom and the team for putting on a fantastic show and letting us at GWBB be a part of it. We had an absolute blast. Best wishes for the tour around Victoria with the remaining shows. If you didnt get down to Geelong to see the show - it will be in Ballarat next Saturday. A show not to be missed!

02.01.2022 Come along - an amazing show and a great tribute especially on Remembrance Day!

01.01.2022 Massive congrats Harrison!