It is my privilege and pleasure to introduce and welcome our new international website, with many thanks to our webmaster Nuno Miguel Silva for creating it. As the world’s leading military music appreciation organisation, we are always keen to share with others around the world our special interest in the splendour and traditions of military music, and this website is a major element in achieving that. I should perhaps add that it is in the process of being re-built and I am confident will be enhanced over the coming months.

Please surf the pages and absorb the different scenes and information of our many member countries. From these you will see that, despite constant economic challenges, military bands and their splendid music are alive and well, supporting a wide range of ceremonials and entertainment, as they have done in their unique way for hundreds of years.

Membership is open to anyone who shares our love of all that is great about the many aspects of military music, whether you are a musician or, like me, simply an enthusiast, and it is very inexpensive to join us - in most cases less than the cost of two CDs. We hope you will contact your national IMMS representative, or simply write to the International Chairman, to enrol as a member and receive our excellent ‘Band International’ magazine mailed to your home three times a year - and join our network of fellow members around the world.

 

BOB DAVIS

International President, Auckland, New Zealand, August 2019