National Concert Band Festival

The National Concert Band Festival is the largest, most active festival for musicians who play in wind bands & big bands in the UK.

The organisation aims to provide unique performing opportunities in a friendly, welcoming and musically enriching environment.

Bands enter into their local regional festival where they perform in front of their peers, parents, audience, and NCBF adjudicators who offer feedback based on the NCBF Award Criteria.

Bands are not competing against each other but are critiqued against the various aspects of performance and are awarded a certificate signifying their success: Platinum, Gold Silver or Bronze.