Contesting

• Brass Band Results - a comprehensive results archive for brass band contests
• Brassstats.com - home of the original brass band rankings

Contest Websites - UK

• Brass in Concert Championships - Gateshead
• British Open Championships, Birmingham
• Leicestershire Brass Band Association Contests
• National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain
• SCABA Contests
• West of England Bandsmen's Festival, Bugle

Contest Websites - Overseas

•  Schagerl Brass Festival - Melk, Austria
•  Australasian Open Brass Band Contest
•  Geneva Brass Festival
•  World Band Festival, Lucerne
•  Lieksa Brass Week
•  French National Brass Band Championships
•  French Open Brass Band Championships - Amboise
•  Mitteleuropa Blasmusikfest
•  Italian Brass Week
•  Chicago Brass Festival
•  Great American Brass Band Festival - Danville, Kentucky
•  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 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
•  The Crystal Palace Challenge (Thousand Guinea) Trophy
•  Daily Herald National Championships 1954
•  Developments in Contesting
• 50 Things that you never knew about the European Championships
•  The First Brass Band Contest
• 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 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 (including latest results)
• Whit Friday Band Contests - a 52 minute documentary produced by Dancing Cat Films