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Butlin's Mineworkers

Section 2 Summary

Year Winners Conductor Test piece
2020 City of Coventry Jonathan Fearn Galdhøppigen, Simon Kerwin
2019 Shirland Welfare Lynden Cooper Academic Festival Overture (Brahms arr. Denis Wright /The Frogs of Aristophanes, Bantock arr. Fran
2018 Haydock Mark Quinn Variations for Brass Band, Ralph Vaughan Williams
2017 Pemberton Old Wigan DW 'B' Michael Golding Inclusion, Paul Sharman
2016 Besses Boys James Holt Fire in the Blood, Paul Lovatt-Cooper
2015 Eccles Borough Mareika Gray Phoenix, David Holling
2014 Mossley Duncan Byers Kenilworth, Sir Arthur Bliss
2013 Mossley Duncan Byers In Memorium, arr. Neville Buxton
2012 Mossley Duncan Byers The Frogs of Aristophanes, Granville Bantock
2011 Mossley Duncan Byers Rise of the Phoenix, Darrol Barry
2010 East London Brass Jayne Murrill Folkmusic, Keith Wardle
2009 East London Brass Jayne Murrill Crusade, Rieks van der Velde
2008 Haslingden & Helmshore David Holland An Alberta Suite, Derek Broadbent
2007 Delph Phil Goodwin Kaleidoscope, Philip Sparke
2006 Kippax Band Keith Wardle Prometheus Unbound, Granville Bantock
2005 Carlton Brass T. Wilson Verona Lights, Bruce Fraser
2003 Snibston and Desford Colliery Kevin J Steward Triptych For Brass Band, Philip Sparke


Regent Hall Concerts - Royal College of Music Sackbut Ensemble

Friday 21 February • Regent Hall (The Salvation Army). 275 Oxford Street. London W1C2DJ


Regent Hall Concerts - The Band of the Welsh Guards

Friday 21 February • Regent Hall (The Salvation Army). 275 Oxford Street. London W1C2DJ


Newstead Brass - Midlands Championships Preview Evening

Sunday 23 February • Summit Centre . Kirkby in Ashfield . Nottinghamshire NG17 7LL


Contest: North West Regional Championships

Sunday 23 February • Winter Gardens Complex, Church Street, Blackpool FY1 1HU


Regent Hall Concerts - Royal Greenwich Brass Band

Friday 28 February • Regent Hall (The Salvation Army). 275 Oxford Street. London W1C2DJ


Boarshurst Silver Band

February 17 • Boarshurst Silver Band, NW Championship Section, requires a BBb player, flugel, and front row cornet player. Under MD Jamie Prophet, the band have an ambitious and varied calendar for 2025, including NW Area, Spring Festival and Whit Friday.


Mid Rhondda Band

February 14 • Mid Rhondda Band are looking for the following players : Front Row Cornet, Solo Trombone, Eb Bass, Kit and Tuned Percussionists. The band will be competing in the 3rd Section at the Welsh Area. Contest & concert engagements in the diary for 2025


Reading Spring Gardens Brass Band

February 13 • Reading Band (current joint 1st place in the L&SC 4th section grading tables) needs a TENOR HORN for the regional contest in Stevenage on 15th March! Rehearsals in Woodley (RG5) on Thursday evenings with our MD Stephen Bucknell.


Ian Holmes

BA (hons), PGDip (RCM), ARCM, ALCM
Conductor, piano accompanist and educator


               

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