IBEW - Brass Bands Events Diary

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August 2013
1 August Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Bude Metric Brass - Poughill Revel, 2.00pm Cleobury Mortimer Concert Brass - Burwarton Show Clifton & Lightcliffe Band - Yorkshire Day - Ilkley, 11am Downton Band - New Forest Show, The Showground, New Park, Brockenhurst, 10am Heyl Town Band - West Pier, St Ives, 7.30pm Honiton Band - Honiton Show, 10.30am New Buckenham Silver Band - New Buckenham Village Hall, 8pm Pendeen Silver Band - Market Square, St. Just, 7pm 2 August Guernsey Concert Brass - Castle Carnet Pendeen Silver Band - Pendeen Church, 7.30pm 3-10 August Music for People Summer School of Music - Giggleswick School, Settle, North Yorkshire. UK's most comprehensive Summer Music School. Brass Band, Orchestra, Big Band, Dance band. See the website for details. 3 August Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Bandstand, Beamish Museum Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Beamish, 2pm Bugle Silver Band - St Mawes Regatta - St Mawes, Cornwall, 3-6pm Chapeltown Silver Band - Cromford Steam Rally Cromer and Sheringham Brass Band - St Peter's Church, Sheringham, 7.30pm Easingwold Town Band - Parliament Street, York Emley Brass Band - Emley Show, Flixton Brass Band - Brooklands Carnival, 10.30am Helston Town Band - St Agnes Carnival Heyl Town Band - Gwinear Classic Car Show, 11.30am Heyl Town Band - Hayle Carnival, 7pm Hitchin Band - Hitchin Town Square, 1pm Hook Norton Brass Band - Cherington County Fair & Flower Show Hunmanby Silver Band - Saltergate Show, 1.30pm Indian Queens Silver Band - Tintagel Carnival, 7pm Knighton Town Silver Band - Clun Carnival and Show, 1.30pm Lanner and District Silver Band - St Agnes Carnival., 6.30pm LGB Brass - Proms in the Paddock - The Paddock,Lewes, East Sussex, From 5pm Liskeard Silver Band - Looe - Carnival, 6.30pm Lympstone South West Telecoms Brass Band - Furry Dance, 3pm MK Brass Band - Grove House Gardens, Dunstable Pangbourne Band - Sulham Fete, 2pm Rhyl Silver Band - Denbigh Eisteddfod Ripon City Band - St Wilfrid's Procession. Ripon Shirley Band - Lowsonford and Rowington Flower Show Sidmouth Town Band - The Ham Marquee, Sidmouth Slinfold Concert Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 12pm St Austell Band - Tywardreath Fete St. David's Brass - Dalkeith Festival Vale of Glamorgan Brass Band - Penarth Pier, 12pm Watford Band - St John's Watford Worthing Silver Band - East Preston Fete, 2pm Wotton & District Silver Band - Cold Aston Fayre, 2pm 4-10 August 23rd International Brass Band Summer School - Swansea University. Artistic Directors Robert Childs and Nicholas Childs. Tutors: TBC. Details from Alison Childs, P.O. Box 42, Denshaw, Saddleworth, Oldham, OL3 5WQ. Tel: 01457 820138, 07802 771735, email admin@ibbss.com 4 August Aldbourne Brass Band - Pond Concert, Aldbourne Green, 4pm Alder Valley Brass - Guildford Castle, 2pm Arrow Valley Brass - Birmingham Botanical Gardens, 2.30pm Bedworth Brass - Stoke Green Park, Coventry, 1.30pm Bisham Concert Band - Peace Memorial Bandstand, Recreation Meadow, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2.30pm Blackwell Concert Band - Gheluvelt Park, Worcester, 2.30pm Breckland Brass Band - Kings Lynn Bandstand, 2.30pm Camborne Town Band - Padstow Sea Sunday, 2.30pm & 6pm Celebration Reed and Brass Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm Central Band of The Royal British Legion - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Central Band of The Royal British Legion - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm Central England Concert Band - Lido Park, Droitwich, 2.30pm Chapeltown Silver Band - Cromford Steam Rally Chedworth Silver Band - Grenadier Guards Garden Party, Dudgrove Farm, 2.30 pm Chinnor Silver Band - Mill Meadows, Henley Christchurch U3A Vintage Brass - Woodside Park Lymington, 12pm Cirencester Band - Pittville Pump Room - Cheltenham, 2.30pm City of Bristol Brass Band - Parade Gardens, Bath Durnovaria Silver Band - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2.30pm Easingwold Town Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm East Peckham Silver Band - Hastings Bandstand, 2pm Enderby Band - Bandstand, New Park, Melton Mowbray, 2.45pm Fakenham Town Band - Sandringham Royal Estate, 2pm Fakenham Town Band - Wells-Next-The-Sea Quayside, 6.45pm Flixton Brass Band - Victoria Park, Swinton, 2pm Guernsey Concert Brass - Candie Gardens, Summer Music, 3pm Guiseley Brass Band - Knaresborough Castle, 3pm Hartland Town Band - Carnival Concert, 7.30pm Heathfield Silver Band - Charleston Manor, 2pm Helston Town Band - Events Square, Falmouth, 2pm Hemel Hempstead Band - Bandstand - Leighton Buzzard Highworth Silver Band - Town Gardens Bandstand - Old Town, Swindon, 3pm Horsham Borough Band - Sumners Ponds, Barns Green Hucknall and Linby Mining Community Brass - Victoria Embankment, Nottingham Hyde Band - Gorley Bygone Day, Brooklands Farm, 12pm Indian Queens Silver Band - Indian Queens Marathon, 10.30am Knaresborough Silver Band - MG Car Rally - Pateley Bridge Showground Llangollen Silver Band - Riverside Bandstand Chester, 2pm Long Melford Silver Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Lutterworth Town Band - Jaguar Owners Event, Horwood House, Milton Keynes Markham Main Band - Brodsworth Hall, 2pm Morecambe Brass Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Mount Charles Band - St Columb Proms Northfleet Brass Band - Folkestone (Leas Cliff) Bandstand Otley Brass Band - Harlow Carr Gardens, 11am Patcham Silver Band - Podium Bandstand, Horsham Park, 2.30pm Ripon City Band - Spa Gardens, Ripon, 2pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Shipston Town Band - Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa, 2.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Parish Church, Sidmouth, 6pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm St Austell Band - Killacourt, Newquay, 2pm St Pinnock Brass Band - The Ship Inn, Par, 2.30pm Stockport Silver Band - Ring o bells pub, church lane, marple, 3pm Taverham Band - Gorleston Bandstand, 2pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Darley Dale Cricket Club, 6pm Thurlstone Brass Band - Wetherby bandstand, 2.30pm Tullis Russell Mills Band - Tarvit Hill, Ceres, 2pm Warbleton Brass Band - Cowbeech Dig for Victory, 2pm Wendron Silver Band - Mullion Carolaire - Mullion Gardens, 6pm West Yorkshire Brass - Sewerby Hall, Bridlington, 2pm Wetherby Band - Tockwith Show Weymouth Concert Brass - Borough Gardens, Dorchester, 2.30pm Wilton and District Youth Band - Bournemouth Band Stand, 12pm and 4pm Yorkshire Imperial Band 5-9 August English Brass Academy Summer Course - Beechwood Park School, Hertfordshire 5 August Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Central Band of The Royal British Legion - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Cowes Concert Band - Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin Torbay Brass Band - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm 6 August Central Band of The Royal British Legion - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Music by the Sea, Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm 7 August Central Band of The Royal British Legion - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm Lanner and District Silver Band - Monkey Tree Holiday Park. Near Newquay, 8pm Torbay Concert Brass - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm 8 August Backworth Colliery Band - Dalston Festival, 7pm Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Bugle Silver Band - Charlestown Carnival - Charlestown, St. Austell, Cornwall, 6.30pm Central Band of The Royal British Legion - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Heyl Town Band - West Pier, St Ives, 7.30pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Carnival Week, Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm Mount Charles Band - Charlestown Proms - Charlestown Regatta Park Mount Charles Youth Band - Charlestown Carnival New Buckenham Silver Band - Aslacton Church Concert, 7.30pm 9 August Central Band of The Royal British Legion - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Sidmouth Town Band - The Volunteer Inn, Sidmouth, 8pm West Somerset Brass Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Portland Port, 5pm 10 August Amington Band - Canwell Show - London Road, Canwell, Sutton Coldfield, 1pm Beverley Brass Band - Queen Margaret's School, Escrick Park, Escrick, 7.30pm Bideford Town Band - Hartland Carnival, 6pm Charles Church Camberley Band - Princes Gardens, Aldershot, 12pm Chiltern Hills Brass Band - Grove House Dunstable, 3pm Cholsey Silver Band - Cholsey Horticultural Show Congresbury Brass - Pawlett Flower Show, 2pm Corsham Band - Seend Village Fete Denham Brass - Grove House Gardens, Dunstable Hartland Town Band - Hartland Carnival. Heyl Town Band - St Mawes Carnival, 3.30pm Hyde Band - Roaring 40s Concert, Brooklands Farm, Gorley, 7.30pm Lutterworth Town Band - Evington Fete Lydgate Band - Yanks Weekend - Uppermill Conservative Club Marlow Town Band - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth New Forest Brass - Owslebury Horticultural Show, 2.15pm Newmilns and Galston Brass Band - Newmilns Gala Day, 11am Newtown Silver Band - Llanfyllin Show Oughtibridge Brass Band - Hillsborough Golf Club, 7pm Penrith Town Band - Lowther Country Fair Ringwood and Burley Band - Ellingham Show Royal British Legion Leiston Band - Newmarket Racecourse St. Swithun's Band - Bucky Doo Square Bridport, 10.30am Stanhope Silver Band - Slaley Show Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Queens Square, Wolverhampton Vale of Glamorgan Brass Band - Penarth Pier, 12pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Easton Gardens Summer Fete, 11am Whitburn Band - Ferry Fair - South Queensferry 11-17 August Brass Band Summer School - Framlingham College, Suffolk. 11 August Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Abbey Park, Evesham, 2.30pm Appledore Band - Appledore Carnival, 3.30pm Aveley & Newham Band - Folkestone Bandstand Backworth Colliery Band - Bandstand, Beamish Museum, 2pm Bath Spa Band - Memorial Park, Keynsham, 3pm Bideford Town Band - Bandstand, Runnymede Gardens, Wilder Road, Ilfracombe, 2pm Birchington Silver Band - Sea Sunday, Minnis Bay BM&W Brass Band - Belper River Gardens, Belper, 2pm-4pm Burbage Silver Band - Abbey Fields, Kenilworth, 2.30pm Celebration Reed and Brass Band - Peace Memorial Bandstand, Recreation Meadow, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2.30pm Chapeltown Silver Band - Queens Park, Chesterfield, 2pm Chiltern Hills Brass Band - Ashlyns Classic Car Show, Chesham, 12pm Corpus Christi Brass Band - Armley Mills Museum Car Rally Dodington Parish Silver Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm Dronfield Band - Lowedges Festival Durnovaria Silver Band - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2.30pm Friendly Band - Overgate Hospice, Elland Gloucester Excelsior Band - Lido Park, Droitwich, 2.30pm Golborne Brass Band - Coronation Park, Ormskirk, 2pm Great Yarmouth Brass - Gorleston Bandstand, 2.30pm Grimsdyke Brass - Pinner Memorial Park, 2.30pm Hartland Town Band - Hartland Quay, 7.30pm Hilgay Silver Band - Bandstand, The Green, Hunstanton, 3pm Hilgay Silver Band - Hunstanton Bandstand, 2pm Holymoorside Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Indian Queens Silver Band - Victoria Gardens, Truro, 2.30pm Liskeard Silver Band - Concerts on the Quay, Padstow, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Music for a Sunday Afternoon, Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 2.30pm Malvern Hills District Brass Band - Abbey Park, Pershore, 2.30pm Manea Silver Band - Bandstand, Jubilee Park, Ely, 2.30pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe Marlow Town Band - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth Marple Band - Ring O'Bells, Marple, 3pm Medway Concert Brass - Deal Bandstand Melton Band - Bandstand, New Park, Melton Mowbray, 2.45pm Milnrow Brass Band - Milnrow park Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Courtney Park, Newton Abbot, 2.30pm Penrith Town Band - Lowther Country Fair Phoenix West Midlands Brass Band - West Park, Wolverhampton, 2pm Ross-on-Wye Town Band - Newent Bandstand, 2.30pm Royal Corps of The Transport Veteran's Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Royal Corps of The Transport Veteran's Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm Rushden Windmill Band - Abington Park Rushden Windmill Band - Abington Park, Northampton, 2pm Shirley Band - Sanders Park, Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Soham Comrades Band - West End Park Bandstand, March, 2pm South Milford Brass - Pontefract Castle, 2pm St Austell Band - Megavissey Stanhope Silver Band - Killhope Pays Day Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Wells Bandstand, 3pm Taverham Band - Eaton Park, Norwich, 3pm Tewkesbury Town Brass Band - Ghulevelt Park Bandstand, Worcester, 2.30pm Thoresby Colliery Band - Thoresby Park Tullis Russell Mills Band - Magdalen Green, Dundee, 2pm Watership Brass Band - Classic Car Show - Newbury Race Course, 12pm Wendron Silver Band - Princess Pavillions, Falmouth, 2.30pm West Somerset Brass Band - Porlock Country Fair, 2.15pm West Wycombe Brass Band - West Wycombe Park, 2pm West Yorkshire Brass - Pudsey Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Wirral Brass Band - Derby Park, Bootle, 2pm Wotton & District Silver Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm York RI Golden Rail Band - Goole Bandstand - Hook Road, Goole 12-16 August English Brass Academy Summer Course - Shrewsbury School - for age 8 to 18, up to Grade 8 English Brass Studio Summer Course - Shrewsbury School - for age 8 to 18, Grade 8 + 12 August Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Torbay Brass Band - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm 13 August Bugle Silver Band - Brass On The Beach - Polkerris Beach, Par, Cornwall, 7.30pm. A free concert on the beach - Come and join us and enjoy a drink on the sand with entertainment by this fantastic ensemble. Lyme Regis Town Band - Music by the Sea, Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm 14 August Ashover Band - Ashover Show East Sussex Concert Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm Kennet Vale Brass - Lambourn Festival, 7.15pm Lanner and District Silver Band - Monkey Tree Holiday Park. Near Newquay, 8pm Torbay Concert Brass - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm 15 August Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm New Buckenham Silver Band - New Buckenham Village Hall, 8pm Otley Brass Band - Southport Flower Show 16 August Whitworth Vale & Healey Brass Band - Rochdale Rugby Club, 6.30pm York Railway Institute Band - Southport Flower Show 17-23 August WMA Summer School of Music - Wortley Hall, Wortley Village, nr. Sheffield. The UK's most comprehensive Summer Music School. Subjects on offer Big Band, Brass Band, Chamber Music, Composition (Intermediate or advanced) Folk, Guitar workshop, Jazz Mod and Trad and Vocal, Light Orchestra, Opera, Sight singing, public singing for the terrified, recorder group, solo singing, string orchestra, woodwind ensemble, and summer school chorus. Applications/brochure from school co-ordinator, maviscook99@gmail.com 17 August Ashover Band - Woolley Show Bournemouth Concert Brass - St Marys, Swanage Chedworth Silver Band - Chedworth Flower Show, 2.30 pm City of Wolverhampton Brass Band - Sedgley Flower Show, 1pm Coalburn Silver Band - Victory in Japan Parade, Knightswood, Glasgow Co-operative Funeralcare Band - St Columba's Church, Largs, 7.30pm Copthorne Silver Band - Capel Vintage Car Show, 12pm Corpus Christi Brass Band - Shadwell Flower Show East Woodhay Silver Band - East Woodhay Village Hall Flower Show Gloucester Excelsior Band - Tibberton Fete and Flower Show Grays Town Band - Orsett Rose Gardens, 10am Great Horwood Silver Band - Aston Clinton Show, 2pm Great Yarmouth Brass - The Minster, Great Yarmouth, 7.30pm Harlow Brass Band - Wright Green Village Fete, 2pm Hathern Concert Brass - Hathern Church Garden Fete, 1pm Heathfield Silver Band - Horticultural Society Show, Community Centre, Heathfield, 2pm Honiton Band - Dalwood Fair, 2pm Hyde Band - Breamore's 100th Flower Show, Breamore, 3pm Knighton Town Silver Band - Montgomery Show, 1pm Malton White Star Band - Rosedale Show, 1pm Marske Brass - Lock Park, Redcar Mid Sussex Brass Band - Rodmell Village Fete, 2.15pm Morecambe Brass Band - Southport Flower Show Patcham Silver Band - Small Dole Village Fete, 2pm Ringwood and Burley Band - Sopley, 2pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 7.30pm St Albans Band - Grove House Gardens, Dunstable St Pinnock Brass Band - Golant concert, carnival and flora, 6.30pm Stanhope Silver Band - Romaldkirk Stiperstones Brass - Minsterley Show Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Norton sub Hamdon Flower show, 2pm Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Queens Square, Wolverhampton Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Hurst Horticultural Society Show West Mercia Police Band - Salwarpe Fete - Churchfields Farm, 2pm Whitehaven Brass Band - Carlisle City Centre, 11.30am 18 August Alder Valley Brass - Family Day - Hinton Ampner Appledore Band - Region of Instow beach, 2pm Armthorpe Elmfield Band - Brodsworth Hall, 2pm Arrow Valley Brass Band - Lido Park, Droitwich, 2.30pm Avonbank Brass Band - Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa, 2.30pm Backworth Colliery Band - Bandstand, Beamish Museum Bath Spa Band - Grove Park, Weston Super Mare, 5pm Bodmin Town Band - Harbourside, Padstow, 2.30 & 7.30pm Buckhaven & Methil Miners' Brass Band - Letham Glen, Leven Bugle Silver Band - St Ewe Country Fair - St Ewe, Cornwall, 10:15-11am; 1:15-2pm. the fantastic country fair, held in the village of St Ewe Camborne Town Band - Killacourt, Newquay, 2.30pm Cantium Brass - Royal Military Canal Bandstand, Hythe, 3pm Charles Church Camberley Band - Philips Mem Ground, Godalming, City of Ely Military Band - Bandstand, The Green, Hunstanton, 3pm Cleobury Mortimer Concert Brass - Botanical Gardens, Birmingham Crawley Millennium Concert Band (TBC) - Podium Bandstand, Horsham Park, 2.30pm Cricklade Band - Parade Gardens, Bath Cromer and Sheringham Brass Band - Harvest of the Sea - Blakeney, 6pm Daventry Brass - Dodford Fete, 2pm Easingwold Town Band - Memorial Park, Easingwold, 2pm Fairfield Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Fakenham Town Band - Bandstand, King's Lynn Walks, 2pm Faversham Mission Brass - Broadstairs Bandstand, 2.30 p.m. Ferryhill Town Band - Ferryhill Gala Fleckney Silver Band - Knaptoft, 3pm Flixton Brass Band - Botanic Gardens, Southport, 2.15pm Fodens Band - Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire Great Yarmouth Brass - Fairhaven Water Gardens, South Walsham, 2pm Gweek Silver Band - Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, 2.30pm Halesowen Brass Band - Sanders Park, Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Hall Royd Band - Myrtle Park, Bingley, 2pm Hathern Band - Quorn Banks, 3pm Hemel Hempstead Band - Scarecrow Festival, Flamstead Hitchin Band - Mill Meadows Bedford, 3pm Honiton Band - Branscombe Songs of Praise - Branscombe beach, 6pm Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Band - Bridlington Spa Theatre, 1pm Kent Police Band - Henry Wellcome Bandstand, Dartford, 2pm Lancaster City Brass - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2pm Leicestershire Co-op Snibston Band - Peace Memorial Bandstand, Recreation Meadow, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2.30pm Lofthouse 2000 Brass Band - Dartmouth Park, Morley, 2pm Long Melford Silver Band - Halstead Public Gardens, 2pm Manea Silver Band - St Ives Waits, 2.30pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Riverside Gardens, Goole Mellow Tone Brass - St. Nicholas Park, Warwick, 2.30pm Mereside Brass - Runcorn Hill, 1pm Morecambe Brass Band - Southport Flower Show Moulton 77 Brass Band - Abington Park, Northampton, 2pm New Forest Brass - Lymington Bandstand - Bath Road, Lymington, 3pm Nottingham Concert Band - Bandstand, New Park, Melton Mowbray, 2.45pm Otley Brass Band - Otley Market Square Pillowell Silver Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm Ratby Co-operative Mid Band - Abbey Park, 3pm Rivington & Adlington Band - Coronation park Ormskirk, 1.30pm Ross-on-Wye Town Band - Ross Bandstand, 2.30pm Rushden Windmill Band - Grafton Underwood Shirley Band - Abbey Park, Evesham, 2.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Skipton Brass - Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival St Austell Band - Ship Inn, Par, 2pm St Michael's Brass Band - Queen's Park, Heywood, 2pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington, 2pm Watford Band - Hertford Castle, 2.30pm West Somerset Brass Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 12pm and 2.30pm West Yorkshire Brass - Crescent Gardens, Filey, 2pm Weston Brass - Blake Gardens, Bridgwater, 2pm Woodhouse Prize Band - Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe, 10am Worthing Silver Band - Canadian Memorial Service Grand Ave, Worthing 19 August Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Cowes Concert Band - St Mary's, Brading Torbay Brass Band - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm 20 August Lyme Regis Town Band - Music by the Sea, Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm 21 August Bournemouth Concert Brass - Bournemouth Pinewalk Bandstand Gillingham Imperial Silver Band - Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show Lanner and District Silver Band - Monkey Tree Holiday Park. Near Newquay, 8pm Old Silkstone Brass Band - York Races St Austell Band - Fowey Carnival, 7pm Torbay Concert Brass - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm Wealden Brass - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm 22 August Bournemouth Concert Brass - Bournemouth Pinewalk Bandstand Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Heyl Town Band - West Pier, St Ives, 7.30pm New Buckenham Silver Band - New Buckenham Village Hall, 8pm Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Moretonhampstead Carnival St. Swithun's Band - Melplash Show, Bridport, 10am Unite the Union Brass Band - LSM Sheffield, Magna 23 August Bournemouth Concert Brass - Bournemouth Pinewalk Bandstand Burtle Silver Band - East Brent Harvest Home Fodens Band - Sandbach Park, Sandbach Gweek Silver Band - Clay Pigeon Shoot, Zelah Farm, Gweek, 6pm 24 August Land o' Burns Contest (for Championship, First and Section section bands in the UK) - Troon Concert Hall, South Beach Ayr Street, Troon. KA10 6EF Bournemouth Concert Brass - Bournemouth Pinewalk Bandstand Bude Metric Brass - Bude bandstand, 2pm Bude Metric Brass - Bude Light, 3pm Camborne Town Band - Heartland Proms Chedworth Silver Band - Windrush Valley Flower Show, 2.00 pm Congresbury Brass - Axbridge Village Fair, 2pm East Sussex Concert Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 12pm Epsom & Ewell Silver Band - West End Village flower show Goodwick Brass Band - Fishguard Carnival Helston Town Band - Lismore Proms, 7pm Irvine & Dreghorn Brass Band - Marymass Kirkby Stephen Silver Band - Kirkby Stephen Vicarage open day Lutterworth Town Band - Ilston on the Hill Fete Midsomer Norton Band - High Littleton and Hallatrow Village Fair, 12.30pm Ringwood and Burley Band - Ringwood Conservative Club, 7.30pm Slaithwaite Brass Band - York Races Stockport Silver Band - Poynton Show Thoresby Colliery Band - Clumber Park Watford Band - Grove House Gardens, Dunstable, 3pm West Somerset Brass Band - Bicknoller Garden Party, 2.15pm York RI Golden Rail Band - Cawood Craft Festival, 2pm 25 August A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band - Ross-on-Wye Bandstand, 2pm Arrow Valley Brass Band - Pittville Pump Room - Cheltenham, 2.30pm Ashover Band - Hall Leys Park, Matlock, 2pm Aveley & Newham Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Backworth Colliery Band - Bandstand, Beamish Museum Breckland Brass Band - Walsham-le-Willows, 2pm Bugle Silver Band - Brass in the Beer Garden - The Ship Inn, Par, Cornwall, 2pm. a free concert in the beer garden of the Ship Inn - a fantastic afternoon of family entertainment Camborne Town Band - Padstow Sunday, 2.30pm & 7pm Celebration Reed and Brass Band - Abbey Park, Evesham, 2.30pm Central England Concert Band - Peace Memorial Bandstand, Recreation Meadow, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2.30pm Dodworth Colliery Band - Wetherby Bandstand Flookburgh Band - Bandstand, Grange-over-Sands, 2pm Hathern Concert Brass - Hathern Horticultural Show, 1pm Hesketh Bank Silver Band - Botanic Gardens Concert, Botanic Gardens, Southport, 2pm Heyl Town Band - West Pier, St Ives, 7.30pm Hilgay Silver Band - The Walks Bandstand - King's Lynn, 2pm Hunmanby Silver Band - Filey, Bandstand, 2pm Kent Police Band - Leas Bandstand, Folkestone, 2.30pm Leicestershire Co-op Snibston Band - Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa, 2.30pm Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - Peasholm Park Scarborough, 2pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Moorgreen Country Show, Watnall Showground, Watnall, Lydgate Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Music for a Sunday Afternoon, Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 2.30pm Malton White Star Band - Eden Camp, 1.45pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Clifton Park, Rotherham Mid Sussex Brass Band - Haywards Heath, 11am Mid Sussex Brass Band - Podium Bandstand, Horsham Park, 2.30pm Pendeen Silver Band - Beer Festival - First & Last Inn, Sennen, 4pm Rushden Windmill Band - Rockingham Pleasure Park Sheffield Concert Band - Brodsworth Hall, 2pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Skelmersdale Prize Band - Coronation Park, Ormskirk, 2pm Somersham Town Band - Beer Festival - The Cock, Hemingford Grey, 2.30pm Tenbury Teme Valley Band - Sanders Park, Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Tewkesbury Town Brass Band - Malvern Bandstand, 2.30pm Wotton under Edge Silver Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm 26 August Arnfield Brass - Beer Festival - Bulls Head Tintwistle Black Diamonds Brass Band - Erewash Museum, Ilkeston, 2pm Bratton Silver Band - Westwood Flower Show, 2.30pm Bretforton Silver Band - Bretforton Supporters Club Fete, 1pm Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Bude Metric Brass - Bude bandstand, 11am Carlton Brass - Lowdham Horticultural show Chedworth Silver Band - Bibury Fete, 2.30 pm Congresbury Brass - Bishop's Moat Race - Wells, 1pm Daventry Brass - Everdon Fete, 2pm Durnovaria Silver Band - Whitchurch Canonicorum Flower Show, 2pm Ellesborough Silver Band - Cholesbury Village Fete, 1.30pm Farnham Brass Band - Normandy Fete, 2pm Gislingham Silver Band - Memorial Hall, Walsham-le-Willows, 2pm Great Horwood Silver Band - Winslow Show Heathfield Silver Band - Heathfield's French market, 9.30am Hemel Hempstead Band - Fete, Berkhamsted Lion Ilkeston Brass - Mooregreen show, 10.30am Lanchester Brass Band - Burnhope Miners Banner Party, 12pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Flower Festival, All Saints Church, Sawley, 2pm New Buckenham Silver Band - New Buckenham Fete, 1pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Show, 9.30am Ross-on-Wye Town Band - Lea Show, 2pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Shanklin Cricket Club Fete, 1pm St Michael's Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Torbay Brass Band - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm Verwood Concert Brass - Potterne Park, 12pm Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Littlewick Show, 2.30pm Wendron Silver Band - Flushing Fete, 2pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Portland Port, 7pm Worthing Silver Band - Wisborough Green Fete, 2pm York RI Golden Rail Band - Brodsworth Hall, Brodsworth, 2pm Yorkshire Brass Quintet - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm 27 August Bletchington Silver Band - Dinton Fete Gretton Silver Band - Wansford Horticultural Flower Show - The Haycock Hotel, Wansford, 1pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Music by the Sea, Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Shanklin Leonard Cheshire Home Fete, 1pm Swineshead Silver Band - Community Centre, Sutton Bridge, 7.30pm 28 August Bath Spa Band - Special Olympics Opening Ceremony - Bath University, 6pm Lanner and District Silver Band - Monkey Tree Holiday Park. Near Newquay, 8pm Torbay Concert Brass - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm Uckfield Concert Brass - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm 29 August Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Heyl Town Band - West Pier, St Ives, 7.30pm New Buckenham Silver Band - New Buckenham Village Hall, 8pm Slaidburn Silver Band - Brass At The Bounty - The Hark To Bounty Inn, Slaidburn, 7pm 30 August Muker Silver Band - Wine Party - Muker, 7.30pm 31 August Billingham Silver Band - Bilsdale Show, 1pm Black Dyke Band - Liverpool Philharmonic Hall BM&W Brass Band - Matlock Bath Illuminations - Derwent Gardens Matlock Bath, 6.30pm - 8pm. Featuring a unique parade of illuminated and decorated boats on the River Derwent. Each boat carries a decorated model and as darkness falls the boats disappear into the blackness below, leaving the models apparently gliding along just above the water. BM&W will provide a concert in the band stand before and after the boat display. Cricklade Band - Carnival procession, Malmesbury, Downshire Brass - Belfast Zoo EYMS Band - Big Bus Day, Streetlife Museum, High Street, Hull Fairey Band - Plaza Theatre, Stockport, 7.30pm Golborne Brass Band - Daten Centre, Culcheth, 7.30pm Honiton Band - St Paul's Church, Honiton, 11am Irvine & Dreghorn Brass Band - Largs Vikingar Festival Knighton Town Silver Band - Knighton Carnival, 1pm Knottingley Concert Brass Band - Connaught Court Masonic Residential Home Lancing Brass - Bea Buckwell Littleborough Band - Littleborough Arts Festival Long Melford Silver Band - Cavendish Fete, 1.45pm Newtown Silver Band - Llanfair Show Rushden Town Band - St Andrews Church, Kimbolton, 2pm Rushden Windmill Band - Proms in the Park St Sebastian Wokingham Brass Band - Sunny Saturday Wokingham, 1.30pm Stanhope Silver Band - St Johns Chapel Show Tyldesley Band - Mesnes Park, Wigan, 6.30pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Portland Port, 7pm Wilton and District Youth Band - Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton Wootton Bassett Brass Band - Boroughfields, Wootton Bassett
September 2013
1 September Aldbourne Brass Band - Pond Concert, Aldbourne, 7.15pm Alder Valley Brass - Bandstand, Godalming Avonbank Brass Band - Abbey Park, Evesham, 2.30pm Barrow Steelworks Band - Barrow Park Bandstand, 2pm Bath Spa Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Belper Town Wind Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Bewdley Concert Band - Lido Park, Droitwich, 2.30pm Bream Silver Band - Malvern Bandstand, 2pm Bretforton Silver Band - Throckmorton Fete Camborne Town Band - Truro Gardens, 2pm Chapeltown Silver Band - Imperial Club, Mexborough, 8.30pm Chatteris Town Band - Bandstand, The Green, Hunstanton, 3pm City Of Coventry Brass - War Memorial Park, Coventry, 1.30pm Colchester Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Corby Silver Band - Abington Park, Northampton, 2pm Crofton Silver Band - Seafront Bandstand, Filey Dereham Band - Queen Mothers Garden, Dereham, 2.30pm East Sussex Concert Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm Ellesmere Port Silver Band - Vale Park, New Brighton, 2pm Fleckney Silver Band - Knighton Park, 3pm Forest of Dean Brass - Peace Memorial Bandstand, Recreation Meadow, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2.30pm Gislingham Silver Band - Brundish Church, 6.30pm Gloucester Excelsior Band - Sanders Park, Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Great Horwood Silver Band - Parsons Close Bandstand. Leighton Buzzard Harvey's Brass - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Hathern Band - Brassed Off Concert - Loughborough Town Hall, 7.30pm Hathern Concert Brass - Sutton Bonington Show, 12.30pm Helston Town Band - Padstow Kibworth Band - Bandstand, New Park, Melton Mowbray, 2.45pm Kirton Brass Band - Park House, Donington, 2pm Knottingley Silver Band - Wetherby Bandstand, 2.30pm Lutterworth Town Band - Winwick Fete, 2pm Lydgate Band - Uppermill Conservative Club, 2pm Mereside Brass - Victoria Park Swinton, 2.30pm Midsomer Norton Band - Keynsham Band Stand, 3pm Morecambe Brass Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Oughtibridge Brass Band - Oughtibridge Park, 3pm Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass - Vale Park New Brighton, 2.30pm Potters Bar Town Band - Canons Park Fun Day, 1pm Rotherham Town Brass Band - Brodsworth Hall, 2pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Skegness Silver Band - Tower Gardens Bandstand, Skegness, 2pm Staines Lammas Band - The Walled Garden, Sunbury, 3pm Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Forbury Gardens, Reading, 3pm Whaley Bridge Brass Band - Memorial Park, Whaley Bridge Witney Town Band - Wychwood Forest Fair, Crawley, 12pm Wrentham Band - Nicholas Everitt Park 2 September Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Cowes Concert Band - Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin Torbay Brass Band - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm 4 September Battle Town Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm Bideford Town Band - Emmanuel Church, Wilder Road, Ilfracombe, 8.15pm Muker Silver Band - Muker Show, 10am Torbay Concert Brass - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 7.30pm Weymouth Concert Brass - All Saints Church, Wyke Regis, 7.30pm 5 September Brixham Town Band - Brixham Quay, 8pm Trentham Brass - Collectors Lunch - Emma Bridgewater, Stoke-on-Trent 6 September Bretforton Silver Band - Harvest Festival - Bretforton Church, 6.30pm Driffield Silver Band - Burton Constable Hall, 7pm Friendly Band - Rushbearing, Sowerby Bridge market and Norland Scarecrow Festival, 1pm 7 September 161st British Open Championships - Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA, 10am. Tickets from 0121 200 2000 SWBBA Exmouth Brass Band Festival - Pavilion & Pavilion Gardens, The Esplanade, Exmouth. Entertainment contest. Andover Town Band - Longparish fete, 1pm Andover Town Band - Last Night of the Proms - Wherwell, 7pm Beverley Brass Band - Cleveland House, Meaux Lane, Routh, 1.50pm Bilton Silver Band - Monks Kirby Church Bodmin Town Band - Sterts Theatre, Upton Cross, Nr. Liskeard, 7.30pm Breckland Brass Band - Thetford Festival Cholsey Silver Band - Basildon Fete Cleobury Mortimer Concert Brass - Beer & Brass - Cleobury Mortimer Corby Silver Band - St. John's Home, Northampton, 1.30pm Corpus Christi Brass Band - Ledsham Fayre, 12pm Dunchurch Band - Priors Marston Fete, 12.30pm EYMS Band - St Mary's Elloughton Garden Party, 2pm Farnham Brass Band - Pilgrim Wood Nursing Home, 2pm Flixton Brass Band - Flixton Carnival, 12pm Great Yarmouth Brass - Lowestoft Yacht Club, Lowestoft Grimsdyke Brass - Hampstead Garden Suburb Horticultural Society, 3pm Heathfield Silver Band - Uckfield bonfire march Helston Town Band - Helston Farmer's Market, 10am Helston Town Band - Helston Carnival Highworth Silver Band - Longworth Fete - Longworth Manor, Church Lane, Abingdon Horsham Borough Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 12pm Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Band - North Thoresby Lancing Brass - Clapham & Patching Summer Show, 2pm Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - Sleaford & District Classic Car & Motorcycle Show, 2pm Lingfield Silver Band - Outwood Fete, 1.30pm Loddon Band - Alpington and Yelverton Fete, 2pm Midsomer Norton Band - Wellow Flower Show, 1.25pm Newhall Band - Rosliston Forestry Centre, 6.30pm Northallerton Silver Band - Kildale Show, 12.30pm Pangbourne Band - Ufton Nervet Fete Reading Spring Gardens Brass Band - Woodley Town Centre, 11am Roke and Benson Brass Band - Moulsford Village Fete, 2.30pm Shirebrook Miners Welfare Unison Band - Rhubarb Farm Somersham Town Band - Somersham Millenium Fields South Milford Brass - Riccall Regen Centre, 7.30pm Sussex Brass Band - St Michaels Hospice Garden Fete, 10am Tadley Concert Brass - The Old Mill, Aldermaston, Berks, 2pm Tyldesley Band - Pennington Park, Leigh, 6.30pm Wem Jubilee Band - Wem Carnival, 1pm Westerleigh Brass Band - Westbury on Trym Flower Show, 2pm Worcester Concert Brass - Alfrick & Lulsley Village Show, 12pm Wrentham Band - Worlingham fete, 1.15pm Yorkshire Brass Quintet - Ilkley Bandstand, Ilkley, 2pm 8 September Hardraw Scar Contest - Green Dragon Inn, Hardraw, Hawes, North Yorkshire, DL8 3LZ. A spectacular setting for a contest in the natural amphitheatre by the Hardraw Force waterfall. Entry forms and rules are available from www.yhbba.co.uk Alder Valley Brass - Bandstand, Henley-on-Thames, 2pm Arrow Valley Brass Band - Sanders Park, Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Audley Brass - Bandstand, Leek Park, Leek, 2pm Belle Vue Brass - Ring O Bells Pub, Marple, 3pm Black Diamonds Brass Band - Winding Engine, Bestwood Country Park, 2pm Blackwell Concert Band - Abbey Park, Evesham, 2.30pm Burbage Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Cawston Band - Fat Cat Brewery Tap 'Proms in the Pub' - Lawson Road, Norwich, 3pm Chapeltown Silver Band - Chapeltown Park, 2pm Chelmsford Silver Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Corpus Christi Brass Band - Car Rally at Thwaite Mills, Stourton, 12pm Cromer and Sheringham Brass Band - Sheringham Little Theatre, 7.30pm Denton Brass - Denton Carnival District Of Dunchurch Brass - Abington Park, Northampton, 2pm East Riding of Yorkshire Band - Filey Crescent Gardens, 2pm Fodens Band - Symphony Hall, Birmingham Godalming Band - Bandstand, Godalming, 3pm Great Horwood Silver Band - Little Brickhill Gardner's Club Fete/Fun day, 7.30pm Gretton Silver Band - Rockingham Road Park Bandstand, Kettering, 3pm Hade Edge Band - Huddersfield Town Hall Hall Royd Band - Otley Car Extravagnza Harborough Band - Bandstand, New Park, Melton Mowbray, 2.45pm Harworth Brass - Hodsock Priory, 11am - 6pm Horbury Victoria Band - St Mary's Church Garden, 4pm Knottingley Silver Band - Beaumont Park Gala, Huddersfield Littleport Band - Kings Lynn Park, 2pm Lockerley Silver Band - Romsey Band Stand, 3pm Malvern Hills District Brass Band - Lido Park, Droitwich, 2.30pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Markham Main Colliery Memorial, Armthorpe Martlesham Brass - Martlesham Heath Aviation Society Open Day, 12pm Mount Charles Youth Band - Ship Inn, Par, 2pm Newmount Brass - Brinsley Headstocks, 2pm North London Brass Muswell Hill - Muswell Hill Festival, Cherry Tree Wood, Patcham Silver Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm Phoenix Brass - Chute Village Hall, Chute Standen, 3pm Phoenix West Midlands Brass Band - Birmingham Symphony Hall Foyer, 11.30am Poole Borough Band - Pinewalk Bandstand, Bournemouth Gardens, 11.00am & 3.00pm Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass - Ashton Park West Kirby, 2pm Radcliffe Brass Band - St John The Baptist Church, Algernon Road, Walkden, 3pm Ratby Co-operative Band - Monks Rest Gardens, 3pm Resdev Market Rasen Band - Proms in the Park Caistor, 3pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Stannary Brass Band - Courtney Park, Newton Abbot, 2.30pm Tarleton Brass Band - Derby Park, Bootle, 2pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Rotherham Show Todmorden Community Brass Band - Centre Vale Park, Todmorden Wadhurst Brass Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Wendron Silver Band - Princess Pavillions, Falmouth, 2.30pm Whitworth Vale & Healey Brass Band - Whitworth Rushcart Witney Town Band - Witney Feast, 6pm Wrentham Band - Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival York Concert Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington, 2pm 11 September Band of The Surrey Yeomanry - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm 13 September Hathern Band - The Civic Centre, Braunstone, Leicester, 7.30pm Jackfield Band - St Marys Church Madeley, 8pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Long Eaton Silver Prize Band Social Club, 7.30pm Muker Silver Band - Gunnerside Chapel, 5.30pm 14-15 September Wychavon Festival of Brass Entertainment Contest - Evesham - Contest Sec: Keith Hemmings 01386 870069 see website for entry forms (by July 20th), contest rules and prizes. Saturday: First and Second Sections, Sunday: Championship, Third and Fourth 14 September Band of the Cheshire Constabulary - Haslington Burry Port Town Band - Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli Clacton-on-Sea Co-operative Band - Great Dunmow, 7.30pm Clifton & Lightcliffe Band - Ilkley Bandstand, Ilkley, 2pm Cobham Band - Heritage Day, Walton on Thames, 12pm Co-operative Funeralcare Band North West - Gracie Fields Theatre, 7.30pm Cory Band - Huddersfield Town Hall, 7pm Cottenham Brass Band - Parkers Piece, 12pm Creswell Colliery Brass Band - Clowne Gala, 11am Dunchurch Band - Weedon Bec Fete, 1pm Dunston Silver Band - St Peter's Church, Wallsend, 7pm Elland Silver Band - Rastrick Bowling Club, 8pm Fairey Band - Ripon International Festival, Ripon, 7.30pm Fodens Band - Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Friary Guildford Brass Band - Winston Churchill Theatre, Ruislip, 7.30pm Frome Town Youth Band - Frome Cheese Show, 10am Golborne Brass Band - Kenyon Hall Farm, 7.30pm Guernsey Concert Brass - St James, 8pm, RAFA Concert Hammonds Saltaire Band - Saltaire Brewery Harrogate Band - Pateley Bridge Methodist Church, 7.30pm Heathfield Silver Band - Crowborough bonfire march, 7.30pm Hitchin Band - Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre, 1pm Horsham Royal Airforce Association Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 12pm Hucknall and Linby Mining Community Brass - Eric Coates Evening - Central Methodist Church, Hucknall,, 7pm Kent Police Band - Boughton Aluph Church, 7.30pm Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band - Kirkbymoorside Memorial Hall, 7.30pm Lingfield Silver Band - Crowhurst Fete, 2pm Maltby Miners Welfare Band - Rotherham Civic Theatre, Catherine Street, Rotherham, 7.30pm Marple Band - Marple Food and Drink Festival, 11am Mid Sussex Brass Band - Cuckfield Park Flower Day, 2pm Middleton and Teesdale Silver Band - Bowes Show, 1pm Milnrow Brass Band - St. Chads Church, Rochdale Norfolk Wherry Brass - Stalham Church, 7.30pm Oughtibridge Brass Band - Dore Show, 12pm Phoenix Brass - BUPA Donnington Nursing Home, Newbury, 2pm Poole Borough Band - Canford Cliffs Village Hall, 7.30pm Raunds Temperance Band - Raunds Carnival, 12pm Ripon City Band - Harrogate Autumn Flower Show Rushden Town Band - Dean & Shelton Flower Show, 2pm Rushden Windmill Band - Ringstead Church Sherborne Town Band - Catholic Church Fete - Pageant Gardens, Sherborne, 1pm Shirebrook Miners Welfare Unison Band - New Tupton Village Hall Slaidburn Silver Band - Hodder Valley Agricultural & Horticultural Society Show, 1pm St Austell Band - Porthpean Golf Day St. Swithun's Band - Bucky Doo Square Bridport, 10.30am Staines Brass - St Peter's Church, Laleham Road, Staines, 7pm Stanhope Silver Band - Stanhope Show Thurlstone Brass Band - Penistone Show, 2pm Vernon Building Society (Poynton) Brass Band - Heald Green Village Hall, 7.30pm Yarnton Band - Long Hanborough Playing Fields York Railway Institute Band - Pocklington Methodist Church, 7pm 15 September Amington Band - Heritage Day - Tamworth Castle Bandstand, 1pm Billingham Silver Band - Courtyard, Belsay Hall, Nr Morpeth, Northumberland, 2.30pm Birchington Silver Band - Minster Salvation Army Bournemouth Concert Brass - Regent Centre Cantium Brass - Oval Bandstand, Eastern Esplanade, Cliftonville, 2.30pm Carlton Brass - Radcliffe on Trent Central England Concert Band - Sanders Park, Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Chalgrove Band - All Souls College, Oxford, 2pm Cholsey Silver Band - Castle Gardens, Wallingford, 3pm Clifton & Lightcliffe Band - Yorkshire Cricket Club, Headingley, 7pm Cobham Band - Castle Grounds, Guildford, 2pm Corby Silver Band - Rockingham Road Pleasure Park, Kettering, 3pm Corpus Christi Brass Band - Pocklington Car Rally Dereham Band - Battle of Britain Parade - Dereham, 10.30am Dodworth Colliery Band - Holiday Inn Dodworth Driffield Silver Band - Hornsea Memorial Gardens, 2pm Farnham Brass Band - Farnham Marathon - Sands Recreation Ground, 1.30pm Felling Band - Middlesbrough Town Hall Fleckney Silver Band - Knaptoft, 3pm Gweek Silver Band - Harvest Festival, Gweek Mission Church 3, pm Hartland Town Band - NFU Harvest Festival at the Milky Way, 8pm Harworth Brass - Harworth Church, 7pm Hilgay Silver Band - Downham Market War Memorial, 10.45am Hitchin Band - Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre, 1pm Holbeach Town Band - Ayscoughfee Gardens, Spalding, 2pm Jaguar Landrover Band - Coventry Park - Heritage Day, Caludon Castle Park, 1.30pm Kennet Vale Brass - Carnival Opening Service & Concert, Pewsey Market Place, 7pm Loxley Silver Band - St James' Church, Midhopestones Lydgate Band - Uppermill Civic Hall, 2pm March Brass 2000 - Bandstand, The Green, Hunstanton, 3pm March Brass 2000 - Hunstanton, 2.30pm Old Silkstone Brass Band - Wetherby Band Stand Portsmouth City Band - "The Pig Pen", Village Square, Finchdean, 2.30pm Ratby Co-operative Youth Band - The Heights of Abraham, Matlock, Derbyshire Roke and Benson Brass Band - Henley River Bandstand, 2pm Shirland Welfare Band - Queens Park, Chesterfield, 2pm Silsden Town Band - Silsden Fun Run - The Punch Bowl, SIlsden St Pinnock Brass Band - The Ship Inn, Par, 2.30pm Stannington Brass Band - Niagra Leisure Complex, Niagra Road, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield Suffolk Concert Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Swineshead Silver Band - Community Centre, Hubberts Bridge, 7pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Filey bandstand, 2pm Tadley Concert Brass - Victoria Park, Newbury, 2.30pm Ware Brass - The Priory Gardens, The Priory, Ware, 3pm Warrington Brass - Battle of Britain Memorial - Gulliver's World, 10.30am Watership Brass Band - Forbury Gardens, Reading, 3pm 18 September Brighton & Hove City Brass - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm 19 September Faversham Mission Brass - Alexander Centre, Faversham, 7.30pm Rushden Mission Band - Mission Summer Concert, 7.30pm 20-22 September European Brass and Wind Band Festival / International Festival of Music - Bad Schlema, Germany. 20 September Peebles Burgh Silver Band - Burgh Hall Peebles, 7.30pm Shirebrook Miners Welfare Unison Band - Doncaster Minster, 7.30pm 21-22 September National Brass Band Championships Lower Section Finals (Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4) - Cheltenham Racecourse - Centaur Venue 21 September National Youth Brass Band and National Children's Brass Band of Great Britain Regional Audition - St Dennis Bandroom, Cornwall. NYBB 12-18 years, NCBB 8-13 year olds. Please apply in writing to Philip Biggs, 2 The Coppice, Impington, Cambridge, CB24 9PP. Black Diamonds Brass Band - Chilwell Road Methodist Church, 7.30pm Black Dyke Band - Wakefield Cathedral Bournemouth Concert Brass - Swanage Bracknell and Wokingham Community Band - Sunny Saturday - Wokingham Town Centre, 1.30pm Brighouse and Rastrick Band - Truro Camborne Town Band - Padstow Proms in the Church Deepcar Brass Band - The Venue, Stocksbridge, 7pm Denton Brass - St George's Centre, Dane Bank, 7pm Dunchurch Band - All Saints Church, Braunston, Northants, 7.30pm Felling Band - Stokesley Show Friendly Band - St Mary's Church, Luddenden, 7.30pm Frome Town Youth Band - Frome Carnival, 2.30pm & 7pm Gillingham Imperial Silver Band - Tisbury Carnival, 6pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple, 7.30pm Heathfield Silver Band - Mayfield Bonfire march Hesketh Bank Silver Band - Hesketh Bank Village Show, All Saints Church Hall, Station Road, Hesketh Bank, 1.45pm Kennet Vale Brass - Pewsey Carnival Procession, 7.30pm Lingfield Silver Band - St. Peter & St. Paul's Church, Lingfield, 7.30pm Long Melford Silver Band - Long Melford Village Hall Loxley Silver Band - Tapton Hill Congregational Church, Tapton Hill Road, Crosspool, Sheffield, Middleton and Teesdale Silver Band - Eggleston Show, 1pm Radcliffe Brass Band - Mill Gate Shopping Centre, Bury, 11.30am Riviera Concert Brass - Central Church, Torquay, 7.30pm Sherborne Town Band - Last Night of The Proms - Sherborne Stockport Silver Band - Lyme Park Stoke sub Hamdon Band - United Reform Church, Stoke sub Hamdon Trentham Brass - Central Hall, Longton West Chiltington Silver Band - Pulborough Harvest Fair 22 September Bradford Youth Concert Band - Ilkley Bandstand, Ilkley, 2pm Brighouse and Rastrick Band - Cardiff Co-operative Funeralcare Band North West - Nantwich Civic Hall, 7pm Crawley Millennium Concert Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm East Woodhay Silver Band - Newbury Show Fairey Band - St. Marys Church, Beaminster Grimethorpe Colliery Band - City Hall, Salisbury, 3pm Harworth Brass - Blyth Church, 4pm Knottingley Silver Band - Stocksbridge Band Club, Sheffield, 8pm Leyland Band - Chorley Town Hall, 2pm Newport (Shropshire) Town Band - Civic Sunday, Church Aston Oughtibridge Brass Band - Brodsworth Hall, 2pm Phoenix Brass - Closing Carnival Service - St. Alfred's Statue, Pewseyl Reading Spring Gardens Brass Band - Newbury Bandstand, 3pm Skegness Silver Band - Embassy Theatre, Skegness, 7.30pm Stannington Brass Band - Wetherby Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Queens Park Bandstand, Chesterfield Virtuosi GUS Brass Band - The Grove Theatre, Dunstable, 7.30pm Woodhouse Prize Band - Clifton Park, Rotherham, 10am 23 September Aveley & Newham Band - Thurrock Film Festival 25 September Eastbourne Silver Band - Bandstand, Eastbourne, 8pm Rayleigh Brass - Burnham Carnival, Ormiston Rivers Academy, Burnham Trentham Brass - Stafford County Showground 26 September Maltby Miners Welfare Band - Maltby Miners Welfare Institute, 8pm 27 September Appledore Band - St Mary's Church Appledor, 7.30pm Ilkeston Brass - Smalley, 2pm Midsomer Norton Band - Hayesfield Girls School, 7.30pm Ratby Co-operative Band - Braunstone Civic Centre, 7.30pm Vernon Building Society (Poynton) Brass Band - Stockport Grammar School, 7.30pm 28 September Audley Brass - Longton Methodist Hall Cadishead Public Band - Irlam Catholic Club, 8pm Clifton & Lightcliffe Band - St Annes Church, Southowram Crawley Millennium Concert Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 12pm Derwent Brass - St. James Church, Newbold Verdon Felling Band - Newcastle Civic Centre, 7pm Gillingham Imperial Silver Band - Shaftesbury Carnival, 6pm Jubilee Brass - Beaulieu Caravan Show Kirkby Stephen Silver Band - Kirkby Stephen Grammar School, 7.30pm Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band - Stockton-on-Forest Village Hall, 7.30pm Liskeard Silver Band - St Matthew's Fair - Liskeard Marple Band - Bierkeller, Hawk Green Reading Rooms, 8.30pm Middleton and Teesdale Silver Band - Langdon Beck Show, 1pm Mount Charles Band - Proms at the Minack New Buckenham Silver Band - St. James, Great Ellingham, 7.30pm Northallerton Silver Band - Masham Sheep Fair 0 Masham Market Place, 12.30pm Oddfellows Brass - St Michael's Church, Camberley. 2pm Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Chagford Film Festival, 2.15pm Portsmouth City Band - The Chapel, Finchdean, 7.30pm Ripon City Band - Ripon Races Rothwell Temperance Band - Kirkby Overblow Church, 7.30pm Shirebrook Miners Welfare Unison Band - Hasland Village Hall, 7.30pm Stiperstones Brass - Cruckton Ploughing Match Swineshead Silver Band - Sutterton Village Hall, 7.30pm Taverham Band - RAFA - Carnegie Room, Thetford, 7.30pm Virtuosi GUS Brass Band - Castle Theatre, Wellingborough, 7.30pm West Mercia Police Band - 25th anniversary of the Band - Worcester Cathedral, 7.30pm Winterley Brass Band - Audlem Methodist Church, 7.30pm 29 September Lancashire Contests - Fleetwood Contest - Fleetwood Marine Hall, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire. See: www.lancashirecontests.com Birchington Silver Band - Birchington Village Centre, 2.30pm City of Wolverhampton Brass Band - Birmingham Botanical Gardens, 2pm Copthorne Silver Band - Copthorne Church Cory Band - Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm Dereham Band - Hunstanton Bandstand, 2pm Eastbourne Silver Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Farnham Brass Band - Guildford Castle Grounds, 2pm Friendly Band - Middleton Park, Leeds, 7.30pm Greenalls Brass Band - Steam Rally - Victoria Park, Widnes Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Orchard Theatre, Dartford, 3pm Guernsey Concert Brass - Candie Gardens, Summer Music, 3pm Lutterworth Town Band - South Wigston Methodist Church Harvest Festival, 6pm Mereside Brass - Victoria Park Widnes, 2pm Mount Charles Band - Proms at the Minack Ringwood and Burley Band - Beaulieu Caravan Show St Austell Band - Liskeard Public Rooms, 7pm St Peter's Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Torrington Silver Band - RHS Rosemoor Real Ale & Cider Festival Watership Brass Band - Victoria Park, Newbury, 3pm Woodhouse Prize Band - Clifton Park, Rotherham, 2pm Worcester Concert Brass - Sanders Park, Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm 30 September Weymouth Concert Brass - Portland Port, 7pm


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