The Federation of Australasian Brass Bands (FABB)

This site is dedicated to the promotion and rebirth of Brass Banding to the wider community. It is hoped that the brass band movement can be promoted as both a healthy art form and building up of alternative family blocks within which the members can actively seek and act out their musical passions.

It is our goal to promote the banding movement to all levels of our community and hope that individuals with musical talent and inclinations have a viable pathway into the community whether their goals be as a professional or amateur musician.

Keller Links to FABB

The Federation of Australasian Brass Bands and the Keller International Soloist of the Year event have linked each of the respective festivals in a new collaboration.

At the FABB Australasian Open Brass Festival at Tweed Heads, October 23-25 2009, the winning brass soloist from the Australasian Entertainment event will now be recognized by the Keller Festival as an automatic entrant, funded by the FABB, to the International Soloist of the Year event held annually at St Marys Band Club.

The agreement came after discussions between St Marys Band Club Board member and organiser of the Keller International Soloist of the Year Ken Bradley and FABB Chairman, Rick Casagrande.

“The collaboration between the two entities further cements the new direction in which we see Australasian Banding heading,” said FABB Chairman Rick Casagrande. “It is important and the responsibility of each of us to do all we can to promote banding in the wider community.”

Both festivals are played out in major public clubs in New South Wales with access to the general public and the mutual goal of bringing entertainment and brass playing back to the community from whence it began.

Posted on 26 May 2009