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Brighouse gain tuba duo

Simon Gresswell and Andy Cattanach to provide Brighouse with their tuba foundation at British Open.

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After a break of two years one of the banding movement’s most experienced tuba stars is making a top flight return.

Tuba section

Simon Gresswell will once more be seen in action with Brighouse & Rastrick at the forthcoming British Open Championship in Birmingham in September, where he will be joined in the West Riding band’s BBb tuba section by the equally experienced and former Foden’s player Andy Cattanach.

It’s great to be able to return to such an important contest with such a great band. Teaming up with Andy is a huge bonus too – he’s a tremendous playerSimon Gresswell

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Simon told 4BR: "It’s great to be able to return to such an important contest with such a great band. Teaming up with Andy is a huge bonus too – he’s a tremendous player."

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