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followers and wider community, resulting in the band’s Making Music
‘Green Award’ in 2023.

Shortly after, the band took its innovative ‘Bitesize Broadway’ production of

the award-winning ‘Sweet Charity’ to the Bolsover Festival of Brass. This
daring and somewhat controversial musical production no doubt added to

the bands growing reputation for daring to break the mould. Derwent Brass
then became the inaugural winners of the Brass Bands England Innovation

Award in recognition of its enterprise over this and many previous years.

Derwent Brass live in concert at Derby Theatre

Soon after performing with Southwell Choral Society in Southwell Minster,

the band was shortlisted for the coveted title of 4BarsRest’s ‘Band of the

Year’, before later gaining a podium finish at the Midland Regional Brass
Band Championships in early 2023. Across later events in 2023 the band

wowed the audience with yet another innovative and heavily augmented and
distinctly Derwent set ‘Once Upon a Time in The West’, culminating in a