Membership

What’s In It For Me?

The Wind Band Association (WBA) is an energetic organisation dedicated to providing opportunities for adult amateur and professional wind band players of all standards, to make music with other like-minded musicians from across the UK.  We do this through various events, including our main WBA Festival weekend in October, plus various one-day music-making sessions (Big Blow) across the UK, and workshops wherever possible.

Individual Membership provides:

  • The opportunity to take an active part in the Association and help develop its aims and objectives.
  • The opportunity to attend all Annual General Meetings and vote on its activities and future prosperity.
  • Discounted rates for all WBA events, providing substantial savings on the full price.
  • Free Newsletter
  • Discounts from various retailers including The Wind Section, Edinburgh (10%) Musical Instrument & Accessories supplier and Bandleader Publications Ltd. (20%) Music Publisher of Wind Band, Brass Band & Bagpipe music.
  • Access to the WBA Music Library, including the lending of individual parts for individual members (subject to copyright laws).

Become a member

Membership costs £15 a year and is payable by 1st April.

Band Membership

Band Membership provides:

  • The opportunity to nominate one band member to represent the band as a fully paid up member of the Association.
  • Discounted rate for all WBA events for the band representative, providing substantial savings on the full price.
  • The opportunity for the band representative to attend all Annual General Meetings and vote on its activities and future prosperity.
  • Free Newsletter
  • Discounts from various retailers including The Wind Section, Edinburgh (10%) Musical Instrument & accessories supplier and Bandleader Publications Ltd. (20%) Music Publisher of Wind Band, Brass Band & Bagpipe music.
  • Access to the WBA Music Library, including the lending of full band sets (subject to copyright laws).
  • The band’s contact details advertised in the WBA website in ‘Links’ section.
  • Any Band who is a member of the Wind Band Association can get free membership of Making Music for the rest of 2023. When you renew at the end of the year you can then get 25% off for 2024 and 10% for each renewal from 2025 onwards. If you are currently a member contact Jean Aldred at secretary@windbandassociation.co.uk for the relevant code.

Band Membership costs £25 a year and is payable by 1st April.