BFBS launches new station

BFBS has launched a new radio station, BFBS Best of British, playing the best of British music through the decades. After giving listeners to chance to vote for a new station in the autumn, BFBS Best of Britis...

Tune into new app

BFBS has launched a new app, so that you can tune into all its radio stations, anywhere in the world, and listen to and download your favourite music and BFBS podcasts. It's available for all Android and Apple...

Tackling loneliness and isolation through singing

Earlier this year the Military Wives Choirs were the recipient of a grant awarded to SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to help alleviate loneliness ...

Sign up to sing

With 72 choirs and nearly 2,000 members in British military bases across the UK and overseas, the Military Wives Choirs is a charity that brings women in the military community closer together and empowers them...

Requiem release for Remembrance

A world-premiere recording, intended as an epitaph to those served in the First World War, will released in time for Remembrance Day, with all the proceeds being donated to service charities. Cenotaph Requiem ...

D-Day Darlings make their debut

FOLLOWING their success on Britain’s Got Talent 2018, The D-Day Darlings have signed a record deal with Sony Music UK.   The group's debut album I’ll Remember You is released on Friday 9 November and continu...

Kids take to the stage for centenary concert

CHILD musicians are gearing up to deliver the biggest indoor staged First World War centenary Remembrance event. More than 2,500 youngsters will add their musical talents to the Lest we Forget National Child...

Military maestros’ musical masterclass

YOUNG musicians from across the West Midlands attended an open day hosted by the Band of the Royal Corps of Signals at RAF Cosford near Wolverhampton. Sixteen youngsters aged between 14 and 19 took part in m...

Soldiers join students for musical masterclass

GIFTED young musicians from Colchester were given a first-hand experience of military music from a group of Army experts. Fourteen-to-16-year-olds from The Philip Morant School and College welcomed The Band ...

Musical notes

As Army families, we often look to provide stability in our children’s lives. AFF Education & Childcare Specialist Lucy Scott investigates how you can take music with you wherever you are… IT DOES not ...