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Butlin's Mineworkers

Section 1 Summary

Year Winners Conductor Test piece
2020 Eccles Borough Mareika Gray Symphonic Episodes for Brass Band, Brian Balmages arr. Mike Kilmartin
2019 Boarshurst Silver James Garlick La Forza del Destino, Berlioz arr. Frank Wright or Le Corsair (Berlioz arr. Geoffrey Brand
2018 Eccles Borough Mareika Gray Renaissance, Peter Graham
2017 Skelmanthorpe Jim Davies Fantasy for Brass, Sir Malcolm Arnold
2016 Hebden Bridge Alan Hobbins A Celt in Jersualem
2015 Unite the Union (City of Sheffield) David Hirst Three Folk Songs Settings for Brass Band, Andrew Boysen Jnr. arr Mike Kilmartin
2014 Sandhurst Silver Ian McElligott Vitae Aeturnum, Paul Lovatt-Cooper
2013 Drighlington Jim Davies Ad Undas (To the Waves), Gareth Churcher
2012 Becontree Brass Adam Cooke High Peak, Eric Ball
2011 City of Sheffield David Holling Granite City Variations, Darrol Barry
2010 Jackfield Elcock Reisen Simon Platford A Hebridean Suite, Andrew Duncan
2009 Blackburn & Darwen Nick Sheppard Hostile Skies, Richard Grantham,
2008 Skelmanthorpe John Roberts The Plantagenets, Edward Gregson
2007 Innovate Skelmanthorpe John Roberts Music For The Common Man, Kenneth Downie
2006 Haverhill Silver Mark Ager Purcell Variants, Peter Meechan
2005 Hatfield Coal Power G. O'Connor Ballet for Band, Joseph Horovitz
2003 Horden BHK (UK) Wilf Beddell Rhapsody In Brass, Dean Goffin


Harlow Brass Band - SPRING CONCERT - AN ANIMATION SENSATION

Saturday 16 May • St Andrew's Methodist Church. The Stow. Harlow. CM20 3AF


Sherborne Town Band - Free-Music in the park

Sunday 17 May • Dorchester- Park Bandstand DT1 1RG


Newstead Brass - Mansfield MVC - Brass and Voices

Sunday 24 May • Forest Town Arena. Clipstone Road West,. Mansfield NG19 0EE


Contest: Whit Friday March Contests

Friday 29 May • Saddleworth & Tameside OL3


The Hepworth Band - Brassband Burgermusik Luzern

Saturday 30 May • Dewsbury Minster, Vicarage Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF12 8DD


Chinnor Silver

May 11 • We are looking for PERCUSSIONISTS to join us as we head into an exciting period for the band.Good and varied diary ahead.. We rehearse on Wednesdays in our own bandroom (so none of that tedious setting up and down)


Hathern Band

May 10 • Due to University placement we require a Bb Bass player- we are a First Section band based at our own band room in the village of Hathern LE12 5LJ Leicestershire (between M1 Jcts 23 & 24) and close to Lougborough and Nottingham Universities


Newstead Brass

May 10 • Newstead Brass are on the lookout for a talented 2nd BARITONE player to join our ambitious and hardworking Nottinghamshire-based Championship Section band.. A rare chance to become part of an ambitious brass band striving for even greater success together.


John Maines

BA (Hons)
Presenter, compere and conductor


               

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