Contesting
	General Contest websites History of Contests Championships GB Nationals GB 1st Section GB 2nd Section GB 3rd Section GB 4th Section GB Regional GB Youth British Open Grand Shield Senior Cup Senior Trophy All England Masters English National Brass in Concert Scottish Open Yeovil European European Open World  Australian  Belgian  Danish  French  French Open  Ireland  Netherlands  New Zealand  North American  Northern Ireland  Norwegian  Swedish  Swiss  USA Open

- Items and articles on this site.

• Brass Band Results - Project to build a comprehensive Results Archive for Brass Band Contests
• Brassstats.com - home of the original brass band rankings
• NABBA Music Resources
• World rankings for brass bands (4BarsRest)
• Other rankings for overseas brass bands

Contest Websites

      UK

• Bolsover Festival of Brass
• Brass in Concert Championships - Gateshead
• British Open Championships, Birmingham
• Buxton Brass Band Festival
• Championship of Ireland Band Contests - Armagh
• East Anglian Brass Band Association Contests
• Fife Brass Band Festival
• Hardraw Scar Contest
• Leicestershire Brass Band Association Contests
• London & Southern Counties Regional Brass Band Championships
• Lytham Brass Festival Slow Melody and Quartet Competition
• National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain
• North of England Regional Brass Band Championships
• SCABA Contests
• Spring Brass Band Festival - Grand Shield, Senior Cup and Senior Trophy contests
• Uni Brass - University Brass Band Championships
• West of England Bandsmen's Festival, Bugle
• Whit Friday March Contests - Saddleworth & Tameside

      Overseas

•  Schagerl Brass Festival - Melk, Austria
•  Australasian Open Brass Band Contest
•  Anzac Fringe Festival
•  Australian National Band Championships
•  European Brass Band Championships 2011
•  Geneva Brass Festival
•  Friesland Brass Band Akademie
•  European Brass Band Championships
•  Lieksa Brass Week
•  International Tuba Competition
•  French National Brass Band Championships
•  French Open Brass Band Championships - Amboise
•  Mitteleuropa Blasmusikfest
•  Italian Brass Week
•  Netherlands Brass Band Championships
•  Norwegian National Brass Band Championships
•  New Zealand Brass Band Championships
•  Chicago Brass Festival
•  Great American Brass Band Festival - Danville, Kentucky
•  Gettysburg Brass Band Festival
•  North American Brass Band Championships
•  U.S. Open Brass Band Championships

History of Contesting

• Aboriginal Brass Band Contest - New Westminster, British Columbia, 1905
• Another Face of Saddleworth - short description of Whit Friday
•  Aston Contest, 1860
• Band Competitions - Letting off Steam: Railways and Musical Life in 19th Century Britain
•  Band Contest in Leigh
•  Brass Bands at Belle Vue - July 1894
•  The British Open Championship Contest, 1853
•  The British Open Championship Contest, 1863
• The British Open: 101 Facts and Figures - by Allan Littlemore
• Bugle Band Contest
• Complete Test Piece Database
•  The Crystal Palace Challenge (Thousand Guinea) Trophy
•  Developments in Contesting
• 50 Things that you never knew about the European Championships
•  The First Brass Band Contest
• The First Brass Band Contest at Belle Vue, 5th September 1853
• The First European Championships - Royal Albert Hall, London, Sunday 8th October 1978
•  The National Brass Band Contest in 1860
•  The First National Brass Band Championships in 1900
•  Glasgow International Exhibition Contests, 1888
• Hardraw Scar Brass Band Contest
• Hardraw Scar Brass Band Contest History
• Hardraw Scar Contest History
•  Hardraw Scar Contest Recollections
• History of the Spring Belle Vue Contest
•  Musical Prize Fight
•  Original Brass Band Music for Contests
•  Second South Yorkshire Brass Band Contest, 1860
•  Shepley Brass Band Contest 1896
•  Whit Friday Brass Band Contests
• Whit Friday Brass Band Contests (including latest results)
• Whit Friday Band Contests - a 52 minute documentary produced by Dancing Cat Films