This weekend's Bolsover Festival of Brass which takes place on Sunday 2nd October promises to feature a great mix of brass band music and chat.

Chat, opinions and viewpoints

Not only will the event be broadcast live into homes and community venues from the first band taking to the stage at 9.00am, but there will be plenty of topical chat, opinions and viewpoints from a host of guests as well.

Plenty to say

The event will be presented by 4BR Editor Iwan Fox alongside studio experts Kenny Crookston of British Bandsman and Chris Thomas of Brass Band World magazines.

In addition to participating conductors, players and judges joining the trio there will be a number of leading brass band personalities such as euphonium star Steven Mead to discuss the most pressing topics of the banding movement — from test pieces and player registration to criteria based adjudication systems and even a bit of brass band gossip!

Social media links

And with an 'in-house' social media expert on hand throughout the day, your opinions, questions and viewpoints can be aired to the whole of the banding world.

All you have to do is get in touch!

The broadcast will be aired from the Heritage High School in Clowne.

Success

Following the success of the 2015 event, which attracted viewers from over 30 countries, the 20 minute entertainment sets of bands in the Championship and First Section will be broadcast live around the world, with all performances from the Second, Third, Fourth and Unregistered Sections recorded for future broadcast.

The first band will take to the stage at 9.00am and this year that innovative approach will hopefully see more and more people become involved through social media.

So if you are family or friends, supporters, players, conductors and or even rival bands, you can directly get involved by interacting on Twitter @FirstArtProject using the dedicated hash tag festofbrass

Use the hash tag

So if you are family or friends, supporters, players, conductors and or even rival bands, you can directly get involved by interacting on Twitter @FirstArtProject using the dedicated hash tag #festofbrass

The tweets will become part of the event by appearing along the bottom of the big screen sharing your well wishes with the world.

Further details of the contest day and how you can be involved will be released this week in the run-up to the contest on Sunday 2nd October.