Tayport Band is delighted to welcome Jemima Wixted into our community. Jemima is on an exchange visit from Australia for one year and has previously played soprano cornet and flugel and joins us on cornet.

Our visit to the 2011 Scottish Championships in Perth Concert Hall on 26 February saw Tayport Band picking up the fourth section runner-up prize for our performance of John Golland’s “Prelude, Song and Dance” which placed us four clear points ahead of the third placed band. Our principal cornet player Irene Reid also won the […]

The band recently performed a short concert of old favourites at a paty to celebrate retired member Jim Murray’s 90th birthday. Jim was originally a trumpet player but in his most recent time with Tayport, he played bass.

We took part in the Scottish Challenge Shield on 20th November and came third in the fourth section with our own choice test piece “Dimensions” by Peter Graham. A Good result considering the two higher placed bands had actually just been promoted to the third section!

The band had a great day out at this year’s Fife Charities Band Association Open Contest held in the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy on 2nd October, bringing home 2 trophies. On the day, we played Philip Sparke’s “Music for a Festival” to win the best 4th section prize while retaining the best Fife ‘B’ band […]

Our band played well on the day, with just a few blips and very few intonation issues, but we had to settle for third place this time – a good result considering how recently several of our players had returned to or joined the band. That gives us another year in which to work together […]

For the first time in decades, Tayport Band will compete in the fourth section at the Scottish Championships being held at the Rothes Halls, Glenrothes on Saturday 13 March 2010. The last few years have seen a decline in membership largely due to work and study commitments. That decline now seems to have been halted, […]

After a long break from contests other than the obligatory Scottish Championships, we made it to this year’s Fife Charities held in the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy on Saturday 3rd October, ?We were delighted to bring home some silverware by winning the best Fife “B” Band award. We were also particularly pleased our rendition of […]

August 2008 – this month sees the start of some serious renovations and alterations to our band hall. The old stage?has?been removed (including a dead rat!) to allow us to partition off that area as a new?room for general use and storage. The work is a group effort, coordinated by percussionist Alan Dorman. Pictures can […]