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About NABBA
Founded in 1983, the North American Brass Band Association has brought bands together for 48 years — a Championships every spring, a journal in between, and a community of players and conductors across the United States and Canada. This timeline is how we are gathering that story.
Work in progress. NABBA is assembling its history with the association's historian and the people who were there. The first twenty-five years draw on Diana Herak's history of NABBA, written for the board in 2007; every Championships comes from our results records, and every issue of The Brass Band Bridge is being mined for the stories between. Corrections, photographs and memories are welcome: email history@nabba.org.
Hover or touch to hold the timeline; it flows again a few seconds after you stop. Click a card for the full story; ← → move between entries. Drag or scroll the strip to travel.
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Championships on the line, each with its host and champion from NABBA's results.
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Issues of The Brass Band Bridge, the association's journal since 1980 — read them.
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Milestones written so far, most of them from the presidents' own accounts of NABBA's first twenty-five years.
The timeline is the record; the chapters are the stories in it, each drawn from NABBA's own results, journal and the people who were there.
Featured chapter
NABBA's highest honour and its hall of fame: every recipient since 2012, from the founders and presidents to the composers of the test pieces, with the dedications read at the Championships.
Chapter 1
Every section champion since 1983, and the records that follow: most titles, longest streaks, most appearances.
Chapter 2
Every host city on a map and year by year: the travelling decade, the return visits, and the halls that became home.
Chapter 3
From three sections and six bands to eight sections and forty-five: the sections, when they existed, and the test pieces along the way.
Chapter 4
Every presidency since 1983, with portraits and the account of each from the association's own history.
Chapter 6
From the first woman on a NABBA podium in 1984 to the Athena Brass Band and today's champions and adjudicators.
In preparation