NEWS

We had a wonderful turnout today from both Ugie Voices Choir and the Sax Orchestra. There were a couple of Covid absences but we’ve been...

Carol singers outside in the snow? No - It’s Ugie Voices rehearsing with us on December 5th with the doors and windows open! Thanks to...

Well, we didn’t win the award but being nominated and then placed on a shortlist of 6 groups from around the entire country is surely...

The whole month was a Sax-Fest for some of us. 10th-12th was the annual saxophone weekend at The Burn. This weekend was run by Cat and...

This nomination is in recognition of our cross-border project, produced for Make Music Day in June this year. We got together with...

23rd May and finally Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra got together to rehearse again. Of course it had to be outside and of course there...

Several members of the orchestra attended a Zoom rehearsal with Phoenix Saxophone Orchestra this morning. Phoenix very kindly invited us...

The course at the RNCM is performance based, and I will be studying with Rob Buckland and Carl Raven. My performance studies will include...

Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra, Ugie Voices and Ben Lunn had several discussions about the sort of material that everyone would find...

We recently enjoyed our first rehearsal of 2021, and as we’re still in lockdown we Zoomed in what has now become the usual way. Musical...

Sunday 6th December marked Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra’s last rehearsal of the Autumn term and of 2020: a very strange year but...

All sort of things have been happening this month. BBC Radio Scotland picked up the story of our Easter Aquorthies video and Foss and...

It had been fun doing the Bakehouse of Fleet Lockdown video so we decided to make another one. This would also be one of Richard's...

Emily Manson An Aberdeen saxophonist has joined up with a group of other young musicians around Scotland to create a multimedia...

In May the orchestra decided that it would be a great idea to record a lockdown video. Bebhionn bravely volunteered to patch everyone's...

Zoom Sunday and the orchestra’s third attempt at having a Zoom rehearsal, hosted by Ben who is best with the technology. As well as...

In the midst of the Coronavirus lockdown all our rehearsals are of course cancelled so the news is a bit thin on the ground. All our gigs...

The really exciting news this month is that the National Lottery Community Fund ‘Awards for All’ has awarded us a grant of £7,000. We...

Today we held a special workshop lead by Mike Brogan from Edinburgh. This was an experiment to see whether it would be a useful extra for...

We had a break in December in case people’s focus was more on Christmas preparations than on rehearsing so it’s been a while since we...