The list of bands who will challenge for National honours in the autumn is now complete, following the last round of the 2013 Regional contests on the weekend.
15,000
Following three weekends that have seen around 15,000 musicians compete with bands from as far afield as Scotland down to the West Country, the full list of challengers is now known.
The full list of qualifiers for 2013 is as follows:
Championship Section
The following bands wil compete on Saturday 12th October at The Royal Albert Hall, London.
Brighouse & Rastrick
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
Cory
Flowers
Foden's [Defending Champion]
Friary Guildford
Grimethorpe Colliery
Jaguar Land Rover
Kirkintilloch
Leyland
Milnrow
NASUWT Riverside
Northop
Regent Brass
Reg Vardy
Tongwynlais Temperance
Tredegar
Virtuosi GUS
Whitburn
Woodfalls
Cheltenham:
Sections 1-4 to take place at The Centaur, Cheltenham on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September.
First Section
Final taking place on Sunday 22nd September 2013
Alder Valley Brass
Blidworth Welfare
Catterick Brass
Drighlington
Filton Concert Brass
Foresters Brass 2000
Freckleton
Harrogate
Hebden Bridge
Johnstone Silver
Kidlington Concert Brass
Lanner & District Silver
Morecambe
Newtongrange Silver
Penclawdd
Staffordshire
Tylorstown
Second Section
Final taking place Saturday 21st September 2013
Bathgate
Bilton Silver
City of Cardiff (Melingriffith) 2
Cornerstone Brass
Elland Silver
Epsom & Ewell Silver
Goodwick
Hazel Grove
Hitchin
Hoover (Bolton)
Pendennis Brass Falmouth
Ripon City
Swindon Pegasus
Unison Kinneil
Ware Brass
Whitworth Vale & Healey
Wigston
York Railway Institute
Third Section
Final taking place on Sunday 22nd September 2013
Amersham
Bodmin Town
City of Oxford Silver
Dronfield CMW
East Riding of Yorkshire
Eccles Borough
Hawk Green (Marple)
Hucknall & Linby MC Brass
Ireland Colliery (Chesterfield)
Kingdom Brass 'B'
LGB Brass
Marple
NASUWT Concert
Pontypool
Severn Tunnel
Shipston Town
Skelmanthorpe 'B'
St. Ronan's Silver
Wotton-under-Edge & District
Fourth Section
Final taking place on Saturday 21st September 2013
Ammanford
Barnsley Metropolitan
Barrhead Burgh
Burneside Brass
Camborne Junior Contesting
City of Oxford Silver
Coppull & Standish
Ebbw Valley
Gawthorpe Brass '85
Great Yarmouth Brass
Ifton Colliery
Market Rasen Resdev
Moulton ’77
Pilling Jubilee Silver
Simon Langton Brass
Swindon Brass
Trimdon Concert
Tullis Russell Intermediate
Wilton and District
