Wollongong City Brass & Wind Bands

Are you ready to shine a light into the dark corners of the musical world? Join the City of Wollongong Wind Band on an odyssey through darkness and light expressed in music at our “Darkness Illuminated” concert. We’re excited to be celebrating the music of Australian composers, contemporary wind band composers, and classics from The Beatles, Glenn Miller and more!

The concert will be at the Figtree Anglican Church Auditorium at 2pm on Saturday 18 October 2025. The ticket price includes afternoon tea, and there will be a great selection of raffle prizes if you want to try your luck with some raffle tickets. Tickets are available at the door, or online via TryBooking.

Congratulations to the City of Wollongong Junior Brass Band, winners of the Youth B Grade Brass contest at the recent NSW State Band Championships!

The Junior Brass Band is going from strength-to-strength and performing at a very high standard. The program for the 2025 competition was very challenging:

• Ross Roy – Jacob de Haan
• Baba Yetu – Christopher Tin & Chris Kiagiri, arr. Frank Bernaerts
• Pro Patria Mori – Alan Fernie

The whole band and the soloists rose to the occasion and secured a well deserved win!

The City of Wollongong Brass Band presents their first concert of 2025 “Brass Spotlight: Meet The Band”. We’re excited to be showcasing each section of the band with a “special feature” piece that puts them in the spotlight and highlights their unique sound. Of course, there will be plenty of music from the whole band as well!

The concert will be at the Figtree Anglican Church Auditorium at 2pm on Saturday 17 May 2025. The ticket price includes afternoon tea, and there will be a great selection of raffle prizes if you want to try your luck with some raffle tickets. Tickets are available at the door, or online via TryBooking.

As the Australian National Band Championships wraps up for another year, congratulations to our Junior Brass Band on their great results in Melbourne!

The band placed 2nd in Junior B Grade Brass, 4th in Open D Grade Brass, 1st in the Open D Grade Street March, as well as the title of Best Drum Major!

Our soloists also rose to the challenge with Julian Eckermann taking out 1st place in the Junior Euphonium and Erin Wilkie scoring 3rd place in Junior Clarinet and 3rd place in Open Clarinet.

Another (long!) weekend of brilliant performances on the National stage!

The City of Wollongong Wind Band presents our 2025 Seniors Festival concert “Walk On The Wild Side”! Join us for an afternoon of music by Mancini, Gershwin, Saint-Saens (and more!), exploring wildlife from the plains of Africa, the ocean depths, and our own backyards!

 The concert will be at the Figtree Anglican Church Auditorium at 2pm on Saturday 15 March 2025.

The ticket price includes afternoon tea, and there will be a great selection of raffle prizes if you want to try your luck with some raffle tickets.

Tickets are available at the door, or online via TryBooking.

We’re excited to announce a very special City of Wollongong Brass & Wind Band concert celebrating the band’s 90th Anniversary!

Join us for an afternoon of music that celebrates 90 years of community music in Wollongong. Each of our major brass and wind ensembles will be performing, so there will be something for everyone to enjoy. We’ve got music spanning the band’s 90 year history, plus a world premier!

If you have friends, family, or acquaintances who have a connection to the Steelworks Brass Band or any of the City of Wollongong Brass or Wind Bands, please let them know about the concert. We’d love to have as many people as possible there to share in this special occasion!

The details of the concert are:

When: Saturday 16 November 2024 2:00PM to 4:00PM
Where: Figtree Anglican Church Auditorium, 4-10 Gibsons Rd, Figtree
Tickets: Available at TryBooking or at the door, $20/adult, $15/concession, $50/family, U12 free

The concert ticket price includes afternoon tea.

The City of Wollongong Wind Band presents “A Symphonic Odyssey”! Join us for an afternoon of music throughout time and space, from a musical tour of Australia’s beloved “Big Things” to the edges of the galaxy via a latin fantasy, you’ll hear music about something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue!

 The concert will be at the Figtree Anglican Church Auditorium at 2pm on Saturday 19 October 2024.

The ticket price includes afternoon tea, and there will be a great selection of raffle prizes if you want to try your luck with some raffle tickets.

Tickets are available at the door, or online via TryBooking.

Wollongong was well represented at the 2024 NSW State Band Championships over the weekend of 24-25 August, with 3 of our bands competing in 4 sections. Each band tackled some challenging pieces and performed admirably in their events:

Brass Band	Open C Brass	4th
Wind Band	Open C Concert	2nd
Junior Brass Band	Junior B Brass	1st
Junior Brass Band	Open D Brass	3rd

Congratulations to every band member who competed!

Three of our bands recently competed in the Large Ensembles section of the 2024 Wollongong Eisteddfod and got some great results:

• Wind Band – 1st Place
• Brass Band – Highly Commended
• Junior Brass Band – Highly Commended

The adjudicator’s comments were positive and helpful for all three bands, and it was fantastic to have our organisation so well represented at the event.

Congratulations to the Wind Band on their success!

The City of Wollongong Brass Band presents “An Afternoon at the Opera”, featuring soprano Jane McIntosh! Dust off your opera glasses and join us for a program of highlights from operatic masterpieces.

 The concert will be at the Figtree Anglican Church Auditorium at 2pm on Saturday 18 May 2024.

The ticket price includes afternoon tea, and there will be a great selection of raffle prizes if you want to try your luck with some raffle tickets.

Tickets are available at the door, or online via TryBooking.