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April 2001

1 April Leicestershire BBA Junior and Senior Open Festival - Solos, Duets, Quartets - Ellesmere College, Leicester. Details: 01530-810221 Tameside Open Brass Band Championships - Tameside Hippodrome, Ashton-Under-Lyne. Details: 01942-703217 Welsh Region Brass Band Championships - Championship & 4th Sections - Brangwyn Hall, Swansea West of England Region Brass Band Championships - Championship, 3rd & 4th Sections - Riviera Centre, Torquay Arrow Valley Brass - Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston, 2.30pm Betteshanger Band - Chatham House Grammar School, Ramsgate, 7.30pm Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band - Burnley Brio Brass - Edinborough Park, Edina, MN, USA, 7pm Brøttum Musikkforenings - Konsertvikua i Ringsaker - Teatersalen, Brumunddal, Norway Cawston Brass Band - Malcolm Arnold Celebration Concert - St Andrews Hall, Norwich, 5.30pm Dalmellington Band - Portland Church, Troon Driffield Band - Spring Concert Ellesborough Silver Band - "A Night at the Movies" - Victoria Hall, Tring, 7pm Fodens Courtois Band - Manchester, Workshop Illinois Brass Band - Salvation Army, Norridge, IL, USA, 4pm Lake Wobegon Brass Band - Paramount Theatre, 913 West Germain Street, St. Cloud, MN, USA, 7pm Marple Band + Roberts Bakery Band - Northwich Memorial Hall Ratby Band - Markfield Chapel Saint Louis Brass Band - St. Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA, 3pm United Co-Op Band (Crewe) - Nantwich Civic Hall 3 April Wilton and District Youth Band - Salisbury Methodist Church, 7.30pm 4 April Black Dyke Band - Scunthorpe. Details: 01427 872635 Felling Brass Band - Birtley Primary School Birtley, Gateshead, 7.30pm Lanchester Brass Band - Fatfield Church, 7.30pm Les Quennevais School Band - St James Arts Centre, Jersey, 7.30pm Salford University Brass Band - Peel Hall, University of Salford, 7.30pm. 5 April Brass Band Eintracht Schötz - Jahreskonzert - St. Mauritz, Schötz, Switzerland 6 April Brass Band Berner Oberland - Posaunentag Kreis7, Grünenmatt, Switzerland, 8pm City of Stoke Brass - All Saints Church, Leek, 7.30pm Dronfield Band - St Elphins School, Darley Dale, 7pm Mossley Band - Bramhall High School, 8pm Parc & Dare Band - Parc & Dare Theatre with Treorchy Male Voice Choir Thurcroft Welfare Band - Clifton Church, Braithwell, 7.30pm 6-8 April BASBWE/ RNCM - Fourth International Wind Festival & The Boosey and Hawkes National Concert Band Festival - Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester 7 April Solo, Duet & Quartet Contest - Northop Audley Brass + Sheona White - Town Hall, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, 7.30pm Black Dyke Band - Coventry Salvation Army. Details: 02476 735506 Brassband Concordia - Jeugdbrassbandfestival - Parkkerk, Leeuwarden, Netherlands Brass Band Eintracht Schötz - Jahreskonzert - St. Mauritz, Schötz, Switzerland Brighouse & Rastrick Band - Town Hall, Morley Cardiff Canton Salvation Army Band - Blackburn Salvation Army Citadel, Vicar Street, Blackburn, 7pm. Carlton Main Frickley Band - Salvation Army Citadel, Woodbridge Road, Ipswich, 7.30pm Celebration Brass Quintet - Kingsway United Reformed Church, Church Street, Slough, Berkshire, 7pm Copthorne Silver Band - Spring Concert, Copthorne Village Hall 7.30pm. Tickets £3/£2 from 01342 714504 Cordula Brass Baden - Jahreskonzert - Roter Turm, Baden, Switzerland, 8pm Corps de Musique d'Elite - Salle des fêtes, Thoiry, Switzerland, 8pm Cranbrook Town Band - British Legion 75th Anniversary, St Dunstan's Church, 8pm East Riding Youth Brass Band - Easter Concert Enderby Bands - Bosworth College, Desford, Lincolnshire, 7.30pm. Details: 0116-286-1046 Enfield Citadel Band - Octagon Theatre, Yeovil Felling Brass Band - Gateshead Spring Flower Festival, Whickham Highway, Gateshead Felling Brass Band - Hebburn Tech Hebburn, Gateshead, 7.15pm Ferndown Concert Brass - A Musical Soiree, Layard Theatre, Canford School, Wimborne, Dorset, 7:30pm. A joint concert with two French Bands from Segre, Ferndown's twin town. Tickets £5.00 and £4.00 available from Mike Young 01202 884793. Discounts also available. Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Shrewsbury, Music Hall Hall Royd Band - B&M Bargains Supermarket, Morley Koninklijke Fanfare Iever en Eendracht - Jaarlijks Muziekconcert - St. Jozefkring, Mechelseweg, Kapelle-op-den-Bos, Belgium, 7.30pm Liberty Brass Band - Frühlingskonzert - Bitzihalle, Bischofszell, Switzerland, 8pm London Citadel Band - Dundas Center United Church, London, Ontario, Canada, 7.30pm Martini Brassband Groningen - Voorjaarsconcert, Groningen, Netherlands Musikgesellschaft Felsberg - Savognin, Switzerland, 7pm Musikverein Lausen - Kirchenkonzert - St. Niklauskirche, Lausen, Switzerland Newtongrange Silver Band - Newtongrange Bowling Club Northfleet Brass - guests Alan Morrison & Mark Nightingale - Gravesend Methodist Church, Milton Road, Gravesend, Kent, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01268-573111 or via www.brass-band.net NSK-RHP Ransome Band - Stratford Park Leisure Centre, Stroud Parramatta City Band - Amphitheatre, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, 10am Slaidburn Silver Band - Gargrave Village Hall, 7.30 pm, Tickets 01756 749586 7-8 April Irish National Band Championships - Good Shepherd Chapel, Waterford 8 April Marlborough Brass Band Festival - Entertainment Contest for 4th Section Bands - Marlborough. Details from 01488-684121 LBBA Solo Contests - Groby Nederlandse Kampioenschappen voor Blaaskapellen - Sporthal " de Bouwmeester ", Haaksbergen, Netherlands North West Counties BBA Annual Slow Melody Contest (member bands only) - Information: 01744-755463 SCABA Spring Contest - Town Hall, Hove, Sussex - Details: 01932-846540 Berga Brass - Berga Teater, Åkersberga, Sweden Bon Accord Silver Band - Palm Sunday Service - St Margaret's Church, 10.15am Brassband "De Vooruitgang" - Voorjaarsconcert - De Vank maandag, Nuenen, Netherlands, 12pm Brass Band Eintracht Schötz - Jahreskonzert - St. Mauritz, Schötz, Switzerland Brass Band Posaunenchor Rorbas-Freienstein-Teufen - Steigwiessaal Frühlingskonzert, Rorbas, Switzerland, 5pm Burbage Band - Bandstand, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Chalk Farm Band - Songs of Praise, Camden Town City Brass Stockholm - Säbykyrkan, Åkersberga, Sweden, 11am Derwent Brass - De Ferrers High School, Derby Dronfield Band - Victory Club, Stocksbridge, 7pm Felling Brass Band - Gateshead Spring Flower Festival, Whickham Highway, Gateshead Göteborg Brass Band - Spring Concert - Artisten, Göteborg, Sweden, 3pm Hall Village Brass Band - Legacy Concert - Royal Theatre, National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australia Hepworth Band - Marple Conservative Club, 8pm Liberty Brass Band - Frühlingskonzert - Gachnang, Switzerland, 8pm Mackay Brass - Victoria Street Markets, Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 9.30am South Brisbane Federal Band - New Farm Park, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2.30pm Vernon Building Society Poynton Brass Band - Vernon Primary School, 7pm Whaley Bridge Band - Glossop Band Club, 8pm 10 April Dalewool Auckland Brass Band - Classic Brass - Auckland Town Hall Chamber, Auckland, New Zealand Easington Colliery Band - Blackhall Working Men's Club 11 April Strabane Concert Brass - Church of the Good Shepherd, Sion Mills, 8pm 12 April Poyntzpass Silver Band - Royal British Legion Hall, Poyntzpass, 8pm Coleshill Town Band - Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston, Birmingham 2pm 13 April British Energy Morecambe Band - Music From The Silver Screen - The Platform, Morecambe, 7.30pm Cholsey Silver Band - Market Square, Wallingford, 11.15am Knaresborough Band - Good Friday Procession of Witness, Knaresborough 13-16 April Australian National Championships - Brisbane Town Hall, Queensland, Australia. Details: +61 (0)37 3882 0272 14 April SABBA Scottish Schools Solo & Quartet Finals Contest - Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate Brassband "David" - Sionskerk, Zwolle, Netherlands, 2pm Buckhaven & Methil Miners Brass Band - Schools Finals - Bathgate Croydon Brass Band - Craft Show, Bexleyheath Govan Citadel Band - Chelmsford Citadel, Baddow Road, Chelmsford, Essex, 7pm. Details: 01245-261257 Jersey Premier Brass + Plus Brass - Jersey Arts Centre, St Helier, Jersey, 7.30pm Newtongrange Silver Band - Newtongrange Bowling Club Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Steam Train welcoming - Okehampton Railway Ratby Co-operative Band - Hinckley Leisure Centre Thurcroft Welfare Band - Rotherham Rugby Club 14-19 April Harrogate International Youth Music Festival 15 April Croydon Brass Band - Craft Show, Bexleyheath Dove Holes Band - Bandstand, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Eastbourne Silver - Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Esbjerg Brass Band - Påskespil ved Treenighedskirken, Denmark, 9.30am Gold Coast City Brass Band Inc. - Broadbeach Mall Centre Stage, Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia, 11am Queensland Govan Citadel Band - Chelmsford Citadel, Baddow Road, Chelmsford, Essex, 10am and 4.30pm. Details: 01245-261257 Hunmanby & District Silver Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Muker Silver Band - Easter Concert, Muker, pm Otley Brass Band - Easter Service - Otley Chevin 15-21 April National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain Easter Course - Harrogate Ladies College, North Yorkshire 16 April Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Alcester Easter Parade, 1.30pm Cornwall Youth Brass - Easter Course Grand Concert with Simone Rebello - The Hall for Cornwall, Truro Cranbrook Town Band - Hever Castle, Edenbridge, 2pm Croydon Brass Band - Craft Show, Bexleyheath Haslemere Town Band - Weald & Downland Museum, Singleton, 12pm 17 April Arbroath Instrumental Band - Handicapped Concert - Ladyloan Primary School, Arbroath Durham Constabulary Band - Horden Methodist Church 18 April Abergavenny Borough Band + Garndiffaith Gleemen Male Voice Choir - Borough Theatre, Abergavenny City of Bristol Brass Band - Town Hall, Chipping Sodbury Drogheda Brass Band - Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland, 8pm 18-22 April New Zealand National Contest - Wanganui, New Zealand 19 April Annan Town Band - Spring Centenary Concert - Annan Academy, 7.30pm Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Spring Charity Concert - Charter hall, Okehampton, 7.30pm Poyntzpass Silver Band - South West Down Band's Association Concert - Acton 20 April Ashbourne Town Band - Clifton Cricket Club, Ashbourne, 7.30pm Clitheroe Town Band - Parish Church Hall, Church Brow Clitheroe Koninklijke Utrechtse PTT Brassband - Gezamenlijk concert met de Koninklijke Rotterdamse PTT Harmonie - Theater Musica, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 8pm Mossley Band - Oldham Masonic National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain - Durham Cathedral, 7.30pm. Details: 01223-234090 20-21 April North American Brass Band Championships - Fort Myer, Virginia. Details from the US Army Band 20-22 April Swiss National Solo and Quartet Championships - Orsières, Switzerland 21 April Carnegie Dunfermline Contest - Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline Aldbourne Band - Pilgrim Centre, Swindon, 7.30pm Ammanford Town Silver Band - Ammanford Welfare Hall Bradwell Silver Band - St James Church New Bradwell Camborne Town Band - Bournemouth Carlisle Citadel Band - Silloth Methodist Church Corps de Musique d'Elite - Concert de gala en faveur de la fondation Clair-Bois - Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland Ever Ready Band - Playhouse, Alnwick, Box Office 01665 510785 Fodens Courtois Band - Sandbach Transport Festival Foss Dyke Band - The Lawn, Union Road, Lincoln, 7.30pm Gloucester Salvation Army Band + Brett Baker (trombone) & Kevin Robbins (cornet) - A Century of Salvation Army Music - Salvation Army, Eastgate Street, Gloucester, 7pm. Tickets: 01452-615660 Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Weymouth Hall Royd Band - All Saints', Ilkley, 7.30pm Hungerford Town Band - Corn Exchange, Hungerford, 7.30pm Kibworth Band - Hinckley Concordia Theatre National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain - City Hall, Sheffield, 7.30pm. Details: 07710-505689 Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Proms Night - Knott End Golf Club, 7.30pm Riddings Band - Ripley Leisure Centre, 7pm St Keverne Youth Band - Roach Victory Hall, 7.30pm Scioto Valley Brass and Percussion Company - Pontifical College Josephinum, Worthington, OH, USA, 5.30pm Sendai British Brass Band - Izumity 21 Small Hall, Sendai City,Miyagi Pref., Japan, 6.30pm Travelsphere Holidays Band - Stantonbury Theatre, Milton Keynes, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01908 505877 US Army Brass Band - NABBA Championships Gala Concert - Center for the Performing Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, 8pm Worcester Concert Brass - St John's Parish Church, 7.30pm Yorkshire Building Society Band - Castle Theatre, Wellingborough, 7.30pm 22 April Alcester Victoria Silver Band - International Caravan Club, Moreton Morrell, 7.30pm Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Durham Scouts - Durham Beaumaris Band - Pavillion Theatre, Rhyl, 7.30pm Berga Brass - Salvation Army, Västerås, Sweden Brass Band Concert - Formby Hall, Atherton, Lancashire, 7.30pm. Tickets on door £4.00 and £3.50 Brassband De Bazuin Triemen-Westergeest + Melodia Oranje - Ee, Netherlands, 4pm Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band - Queens Theatre, Hornchurch Chapel-en-le-Frith Town Band - Glossop Band Club, 8pm Crystal Palace Band - London Marathon, Southwark, 9am - 12pm Denham Hendon Brass Band - St George's Day Parade, Greenford, 11.00am Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Minehead, Regal Theatre Haverhill Silver Band - Town Hall, Haverhill, 8pm Knaresborough Band - St George's Day Parade, Knaresborough, 2pm Longridge Band - Formby Hall, Alders Street, Atherton, 7.30pm. Details: 01942 876496 Lydgate Brass Band - The Saint and the Bard - Piece Hall, Halifax, p.m. Marshside Brass Band - St. George's Day Parade - Lord Street, Southport, 1.45pm Mossley Band - Marple Conservative Club, 8pm Muker Silver Band - Scout Parade, Richmond, North Yorkshire, pm Musikverein Lausen -Eierläset, Lausen, Switzerland Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - ANZAC Service, Cannock Chase St Sebastian (Wokingham) Brass Band - St George's Day Parade, Wokingham Swindon Pegasus Brass Band + Choirs - Wyvern Theatre, Swindon. Details: 01793 524481 Test Valley Brass + Basingstoke Male Voice Choir - The Anvil, Basingstoke Tewit Youth Band - St. George's Day Parade - West Park Stray, Harrogate, 2pm Thurlstone Band - Victory Club, Stocksbridge 8pm Tideswell Band - Bandstand, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Tintwistle Band - St George's Day Parade, Glossop Waltham Forest Co-op Band - London Marathon, The Oporto Wantage Silver Band - St George's Day Parade, Faringdon Welwyn Garden City Band - St Georges Day Parade, Harpenden, 2.30pm Wem Jubilee Band - St Georges Parade - Wem, 2.40pm + 4.00pm 23 April Newstead Welfare Band - Festival Hall, Kirkby, 7.45pm Patcham Silver Band - Hailsham Pavilion, 7.30pm. Box office: 01323 841414 Slaidburn Silver Band - St George's Day Concert, Moorcock Inn, Waddington 7.30 pm, tickets: 01200 422333 Tadley Band - Ambrose Allen Centre, Tadley, 8pm 24 April Imperial Brass Ensemble - St Martin-In-The-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, 1pm 25 April Cawston Band - University of East Anglia, 7.45pm Leigh Silver Band - Conservative Club, Railway Road, Leigh. Tickets £3 26 April Betteshanger Brass Band - Betteshanger Sports Club, 7.30pm Kirkintilloch Band + Glasgow Phoenix Choir - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 7.30pm Strabane Concert Brass - Spring Arts Concert - Omagh Leisure Centre, 8pm. Tickets: (028) 8224 7831 26-28 April Grenland Brass Festival - Skien, Norway 27 April Aunt Bessie's East Yorkshire Brass - Opening of Bridlington Arts Festival - Spa Royal Hall, Bridlington, 7.30pm Brassband De Bazuin Triemen-Westergeest - Gouden Spiker festival - Bakkeveen, Netherlands Chapeltown Silver Prize Band - Patrons Concert, Newton Hall, Chapeltown Charles Church Camberley Band - Indian Earthquake Appeal Concert - Park Evangelical Church, Aldershot, 8pm. Details: 01252-330677 Coleshill Town Band - Andrew Lloyd-Webber Spectacular - Town Hall, Coleshill, Birmingham, 7.30pm. Details: 01675- 464906 Dalmellington Band + Marr Cappella Choir - Concert Hall, Troon Musikgesellschaft Brass Band Auw - Jahreskonzert - Merenschwand, Switzerland Musikverein Künten - Turnhalle, Künten, Switzerland Newhall Band - St John's Church, Newhall, 7.30pm Norridge Citadel Band - London Citadel, London, Ontario, Canada, 7pm Oughtibridge Brass Band - Montgomery Hall, Sheffield, 7.30pm Poyntzpass Silver Band - South West Down Band's Association Annual Display - Scarva Street Presbyterian Church Hall, Banbridge, 8pm Whitehaven Brass Band - Whitehaven News Awards - Whitehaven Civic Hall, 9pm 27-29 April Tomra/Ørskog Brassfestival - Norway 28 April Manx Music Festival - Solo/Ensemble Classes Repton Brass Festival - National Trombone Competition - Repton, Derbyshire. Details - Tel: 020 7240 3823 Barnsley Metropolitan Band + Barnsley Town Concert Band - Barnsley Town Centre Bedford Town Band - Bedfordshire Police Headquarters, Woburn Rd, Kempston, 7pm Brass Band de Thudinie - Gala Concert - Montignies-le-Tilleul, Belgium British Energy Morecambe Band - Westholme Theatre, Blackburn, 7.30pm Camborne Town Band - Trevithick Day, Camborne Cantium Brass - Bolougne Festival Chapeltown Silver Prize Band - Shiregreen 6 o'clock Club Parade Cholsey Silver Band - Chad Water Project Concert - St Mary's Church, Cholsey, 7.45pm Coleshill Town Band - Andrew Lloyd-Webber Spectacular - Town Hall, Coleshill, Birmingham, 7.30pm. Details: 01675- 464906 DUT Yorkshire Imperial Band - Canary Wharf, London Eastern Iowa Brass Band - Subscription Concert - Mt. Vernon, Iowa, USA, 7.30pm Enderby Band - Leicester Cathedral, 7.30pm Enfield Citadel Band - Annual Spring Festival - Christ Church, Chase Side, Enfield, 7.30pm Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia - Soirée annuelle - Salle du Vieux-Moulin, St-Prex, Switzerland Foss Dyke Band - Proms 2001, Werrington Sports Centre, near Peterborough, 7.30pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - High Wycombe, Swan Theatre Hallé Brass Quintet - Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, 7pm Hitchin Band - Kent Garden Show, Paddock Wood, Kent Huddersfield Youth Brass Ensemble Association - Spring Concert - Huddersfield Methodist Mission, Lord Street, Huddersfield, 7.15pm. Tickets £5/£3 Jackfield Elcock Reisen Band - Penn Church, Wolverhampton Kibworth Band - Melton Mowbray Theatre Knaresborough Band - Aldborough Church Langbaurgh Brass - Robininson Institute, Glaisdale Leyland Band - St George's Hall, Blackburn, 7.30pm Middleton Brass Band - Tottington High School, Bury Musikgesellschaft Brass Band Auw - Jahreskonzert - Mehrzweckgebäude Auw, Switzerland MG Konkordia Aedermannsdorf - Konzert und Unterhaltung - Mehrzweckhalle Aedermannsdorf, Switzerland, 8pm Musikverein Künten - Turnhalle, Künten, Switzerland Newcastle Brown Ale Brass Band - Heddon on the Wall Community Association. Newcastle Reddish Prize Gorton Silver Band - St George's celebration concert - Christ Church, Reddish, 7pm Riddings Band - Mortimer Wilson School, Alfreton, 7pm Salvation Army International Staff Band - Croydon Citadel, Booth Road, Croydon, 8pm Sellers International Band - South Normanton Community Centre, 7.30pm. £5. Tel: 01773 863858 Sheldon Theatre Brass Band - T.B. Sheldon Theatre, Red Wing, MN, USA Silk Brass - Sutton Club Tylorstown Band - "Rhondda Live" Massed Bands and Choirs Concert - Rhondda Fawr Sports Centre, Tylorstown United Norwest Co-op Milnrow Band - St Margarets School, Heys Lane, Heywood, 7.30pm Williams Fairey Band - "The Very Best of Brass" - Winter Gardens Theatre, Bournemouth, 7.30pm. Box office: 01202-456456 Yeovil Town Band + The Risca Male Voice Choir - Octagon Theatre, Yeovil, 7.30pm 29 April Holmfirth Contest Manx Music Festival - Ensemble/Band Classes Nostell Priory Yorkshire Challenge Contest Heat (Section B & C) - Nostell Priory. Details from Joan Ellis, Tel: 01924 890096 Triton Contest - Hitchin Town Hall, 2pm Heats, Final 7pm Yorkshire & Humberside BBA Annual Contest (member bands only) - Spa Complex, Scarborough, 10am onwards ASDA Stocksbridge Band - Victory Club, 8pm Avonbank (Evesham) Brass Band - Spring Concert - Arts Centre, Evesham, 7.30pm Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Brass Band Midden-Brabant - Diksmuide, Belgium City Brass Stockholm - Pingstkyrkan, Tyresö, Sweden, 11am City Brass Stockholm - Filadelfiakyrkan, Stockholm, Sweden, 6pm Dalmellington Band - Dalmellington Community Centre Fairfield Band - Bandstand, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Felling Brass Band - Gibeside Chapel Whickham, Gateshead, 1pm Fodens Courtois Band + Biddulph Choir - Hanley, 7.30pm Glossop Old Band - Glossop Band Club, 8pm Hathern Band - Queens Park, Loughborough, 4.30pm Haverhill Silver Band - In Concert - Haverhill Arts Centre, 8pm. Tickets £4, £3 concessions. Details: Haverhill Arts Theatre, 01440-714140 Hitchin Band - Kent Garden Show, Paddock Wood, Kent Knaresborough Band - Knaresborough Spring Fayre Launceston Town Band - Callington Methodist Church, 2.30pm Liskeard Silver Band - St George's Day Parade (Caradon Scouts) Marshside Brass Band - St. George's Day Parade, Formby Mossley Band - Broadoak Oldham Brass '97 - "Brilliance of Brass" - Royton Assembly Hall, Market Square, Royton, Oldham, 1.30pm. Tickets (including hotpot lunch): 0161 911 4072 Opera North Brass Ensemble + Bones Apart - Pears School, Repton, Derbyshire, 7.30pm Porthywaen Silver Band - Shrewsbury and district Scouts, 2pm Rayleigh Brass Plays the Classics - Freight House, Rochford, 8pm Reddish Prize Gorton Silver Band - St George's Concert - Reddish Conservative Club, p.m. Repton Brass Festival - Masterclasses - Repton, Derbyshire. Details - Tel: 020 7240 3823 St Keverne Youth Band - Manaccan Marquee Solid Brass - Arkansas School for the Blind Auditorium, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, 7pm Tintwistle Band - Mottram Church, 7.30pm Wantage Silver B Band - St George's Day Parade, Didcot 30 April Brassband Concordia - "De Boei" in Vinkeveen, Netherlands, 11am Brassband "David" Zwolle - Koninginnedagconcert, De Wissel, Netherlands, 9.30am Brassband "De Vooruitgang" - Koninginnedag, Klooster, Nuenen, Netherlands, 12.30pm Flevo Brass - Oranje Concert - Voorhuys Emmeloord, Netherlands, 8pm Koninklijke Utrechtse PTT Brassband - Koninginnedag, Aubade & Concert - Stadhuisbrug, Utrecht, Netherlands, 9am & 11am Randstad Brass Adventure - Verpleeghuis Vrederust West, Den Haag, Netherlands, 2pm

May 2001

1 May Camborne Town Band - Parkhouse Centre, Bude, 7.30pm Rayleigh Brass - Doggets Primary School, Rochford, 9.45am 1-4 May European Solo and Quartet Competition for Brass Instruments - Montreux, Switzerland. Email: bunternaehrer@swissonline.ch 2 May Århus Brass Band - Præsentationskoncert før EM 2001 - Følger hurtigst muligt, Denmark Brass Band Berner Oberland - Thun Tourismus, Thun, Switzerland, 8pm Langley Band - Pedmore Church, 7.30pm 3 May Band Of The Island Of Jersey - St. Helier Precinct/Royal Square, 8pm 4 May European Brass Band Championships - First Section - Stravinsky Auditorium, Montreux, Switzerland, 5.30pm Brassband Berner Oberland + European Soloists - Stravinsky Hall, Montreux, Switzerland, 8pm Brass Band Chemnitz - Saal des Hauses "spektrum", Chemnitz, Germany, 7pm Knottingley Concert Brass - St Mary's Church, Badsworth Muker Silver Band - Charity Concert - Muker, evening Musikgesellschaft Brass Band Ermensee - Frühlingskonzert - Mehrzweckhalle, Ermensee, Switzerland 4-5 May 4th Lacock Serpentarium - Serpent workshop and coaching - London Serpent Trio, Cantax House, Lacock, Chippenham 5 May Borders Entertainment Contest - Victoria Halls, Selkirk European Brass Band Championships - Championship Section - Stravinsky Auditorium, Montreux, Switzerland, 10am Senior Cup & Grand Shield (qualifying events for the British Open Championships) - Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Box office: 01253-292029 Audley Brass + guest artist - Civic Hall, Alsager, 7:30pm Banks Brass Band - Southport Spring Garden Festival - Meols Hall, Churchtown, Southport, p.m. Basingstoke Silver Band + Farnham Brass Band - Basingstoke Carnival Hall, Council Road, Basingstoke, 7.30pm. Tickets: £5 - 01256 327231 Bradwell Silver Band - Stantonbury Theatre Centenary Concert Brass Band 70 - "Conte Musical" - Salle des Congrès, Gray, France, 8.30pm Brass Band Chemnitz - Saal des Hauses "spektrum", Chemnitz, Germany, 7pm Brass Band VeluweBrass Amersfoort - Zeewolde, Netherlands Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band - Ulverston Croydon Brass Band - Craft Show, Farnborough, Kent Crystal Palace Band - St John the Evangelist Parish Church, High Street, Penge, 7.30 pm Epsom and Ewell Silver Band - May Merrie - Kingston, 11am Gawthorpe Brass '85 - May Day Procession, Gawthorpe Guernsey Concert Band - Spring Concert - St James Concert Hall Holymoorside Band - Chesterfield Town Centre, 12pm Hungerford Town Band - Methodist Spring Concert, John O Gaunt, 7.30pm Jericho Brass - Chatta. Realtors' Assoc. - Coolidge Park, Chattanooga, TN, USA Morecambe Youth Band - Heysham Village Fun Day, 2pm Musikgesellschaft Brass Band Ermensee - Frühlingskonzert - Mehrzweckhalle, Ermensee, Switzerland New Forest Brass Band - Crossfield Hall, Romsey Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Carnival - Bere Alston Puget Brass Sound - Spring Concert - Kirkland Performance Center, Seattle, USA, 4pm St. Stephan Brassband - St.Stephan Church, Stephanstrasse 117, Hamburg, Germany, 7pm Sandhurst Silver Band - Woking Bandstand, 10.30am Stannary Brass Band - Tamerton Foliot Carnival - Plymouth, 12pm Travelsphere Holidays Band - "Alternative night at the opera" - Royal Dengate Theatre, Northampton, 7.30pm Unity Brass + Pam Ayres - St Georges Hall, Bradford, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01274-752000 + Brassband Berner Oberland - European Gala Concert - Stravinsky Hall, Montreux, Switzerland, 7.45pm 6 May Buxton Brass Bands Festival - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton. Contest information: 0161-427-3670 East Anglian Brass Band Association Spring Contest - St Andrews Hall, Norwich Amersham Band - Memorial Gardens- Old Amersham, 3pm Barnsley Metropolitan Band + Barnsley College Brass Band - Festival of Brass and Voice - Penistone Paramount Cinema, 3pm £5/£3. Details: 01226-291525 Betteshanger Band - Memorial Bandstand, Deal, 2pm Blackburn & Darwen Band - Centre Stage - Centre Vale Park, Todmorden, 3pm Brass Band Posaunenchor Flaach - Konstanz, Switzerland Cantium Brass - Pencester Gardens, Dover, Kent, 2.30pm Colchester Citadel Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Croydon Brass Band - Craft Show, Farnborough, Kent Dunston Silver Band - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Fanfare de Mont-sur-Rolle - Giron des musiques de la Côte-Ouest - Coppet, Switzerland Fodens Courtois Band - EABBA Annual Spring Gala Concert - St Andrew's Hall - Norwich, 7.00pm. Details: 01473 626986 Harrogate Band - Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, 11am - 4pm Kenny Baker Memorial Concert - Don Lusher Big Band and other stars - Fairfield Hall, Croydon Lydgate Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Okehampton Park Duck Race Portsmouth City Band - Fareham Music Festival Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Village Green, 2pm St Albans City Band - Chesham School Fete Thurlstone Brass Band - Gunthwaite Spa, 2.30pm United Norwest Co-op Milnrow Band - Dobcross Bandrooms, 8pm Unity Brass + Pam Ayres - Mill at the Pier, Wigan Pier, Wigan, 7.15pm. Tickets: 01942 825677 Worcester Concert Brass - Stratford 7 May Copthorne Silver Band - Ifield Barn Fayre, 2pm Croydon Brass Band - Craft Show, Farnborough, Kent Cubbington Silver Band - Southam Lions May Day Event - Library Grounds, Coventry Street, Southam, 2.30pm Dronfield Band - Carr Bank Park, Mansfield Five Rivers Brass - Woodhorn Colliery Museum, Ashington, Northumberland Huddersfield Youth Brass Ensemble Association - Ilkley Carnival Patcham Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Portsmouth City Band - St Mary's Church Fete, 1pm St Sebastian (Wokingham) Brass Band - May Fair, Wokingham Sandhurst Silver Band - Yateley May Fayre, 12.30pm Wantage Silver Band - Grove May Fayre Welwyn Garden City Band - Lemsford Church Fete, 1pm Yorkshire Traction and Honley Brass Band - Morris, Mummers and Maypoles - Piece Hall, Halifax, p.m. 8 May Besses o' th' Barn Band - Ashton on Ribble High School, Preston, 7.30pm Carlisle Citadel Band - St Luke's Church, Morton, Carlisle 9 May Band Of The Island Of Jersey - Liberation Day Parade - St. Helier Precinct/Royal Square Rockville Brass Band - Kensington Park Library, Kensington, MD, USA, 7pm 10 May Newtongrange Silver Band - Children's Classic Concert - Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow Sheldon Theatre Brass Band - Red Wing Technical College, Red Wing, MN, USA, 7pm 11 May Altena Brass - Concertzaal, Tilburg, Netherlands, 8pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Town Hall, Leeds, 7.30pm. Tickets: 0113 224 3801 Killamarsh Silver Band - Killamarsh Village Leisure Centre, 7.30pm Travelling by Tuba - Wells Cathedral, Wells, 7.30pm Worsbrough Brass Band and Scisset Youth Band - Keresforth Hall, Barnsley 12 May Haslemere Entertainment Contest - Haslemere Hall, Haslemere NCBBA Open Entertainments Band Contest - Reid Halls, Forfar, Scotland SEWBBA Ebbw Vale Contest - Leisure Centre, Ebbw Vale Bedford Town Concert Brass - Brass in Concert - Church of Transfiguration, Kempston, 7pm. (Also featuring, Bedford Town Training Band). Tickets contact sue.blunt@ntlworld.com Brassband Concordia - Jaarlijks donateurconcert - "De Boei", Vinkeveen, Netherlands, 8pm Brass Band Posaunenchor Flaach - Rosenberg, Winterthur, Switzerland, 7.30pm Brass Band Posaunenchor Wädenswil - Frühjahrskonzert 2001 - Glärnischhalle, Switzerland, 8pm Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band - Norton Buy As You View Cory Band - Newport Cobham Band - Bandstand, Woking, 10.30am Denham Hendon Brass - Rickmansworth Carnival, 2pm Dronfield Band - Gleadless Methodist Church, 7.30pm East Yorkshire Brass - South Dalton, 7.30pm Gawthorpe Brass '85 - Town Hall, Ossett Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Dorking, Dorking Hall Hadleigh Temple Band - Salvation Army "Powerama" Dance, drama & video spectacular - Southend Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, 6.30pm. Complimentary tickets: 01245-383003 Hall Royd Band - Fete - Bradford Grammar School Hangleton Band - Hangleton Manor, Hangleton Valley Drive, Hove Harborough Band - Foxton Fete Harrogate Band - Thorner Church, nr. Leeds Heath Band - Library Theatre, Leighton Buzzard, 8pm Hepworth Band - Brass and Voices with Colne Valley Male Voice Choir - St Pauls Hall, Huddersfield, 7.15pm. Tickets available from Kirklees Information Offices in Huddersfield and Holmfirth, Tel 01484 223200 Kings of Brass - Final Concert - Royal Hall, Villa Marina, Douglas, Isle of Man, 8pm Leyland Band - Stratford Park Leisure Centre, Stroud, 7.30pm Otley Brass Band - Otley Civic Centre Oughtibridge Brass Band - Millennium Green, Oughtibridge, 2pm Parramatta City Band - Amphitheatre, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, 10am Pennine Brass - Huddersfield Town Hall Renfrew Burgh Band - Central Nurseries, Renfrew Riddings B Band - Bulwell United Reformed Church, 7.30pm Rockville Brass Band - Main Street Festival - Laurel, MD, USA Rolls-Royce (Derby) Band - St Marks Church, Winshill, Burton-on-Trent Sellers International Band + Skelmanthorpe Male Voice Choir - Sounding Brass And Voices - Morley Town Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets: 0113 224 3801 Silk Brass - Fallibroome High School Test Valley Brass - Cricklade Theatre, Andover, 7.30pm Thurlstone Brass Band - Penistone Paramount, Shrewsbury Road, Penistone - with David Childs (Euphonium) 7.30 pm Verwood Concert Brass - Memorial Hall, Verwood, 7.30pm Williams Fairey Band - Bassetlaw Centre, Worksop, 7.30pm Woking Brass Band + Swedish Brass - HG Wells Suite, Woking, 7.30pm Yorkshire Building Society Band - Kingsway School, Foxland Road Hall, Cheadle, Cheshire, 7pm 13 May Cumbria BBA 16th Annual Contest - Whitehaven Civic Hall, Lowther Street, Whitehaven. Details: 01946 619555 Elland Slow Melody and Quartet Contest - Elland, West Yorkshire. Details: 01484 717126 or email: Kathleen Harrison Festival and competition - The Dome, Morecambe Huddersfield District BBA Pogson-Bray Trust Brass Band Contest - Huddersfield Town Hall. Information: 01924 466611 London & Home Counties BBA Solo, Duet, Quartet & Ensemble Contest - Ilford, Essex. Schedule: 01375 409807 Nostell Priory Yorkshire Challenge Contest Heat (Section B & C) - Nostell Priory. Details from Joan Ellis, Tel: 01924 890096 South East Wales Championships - Ebbw Vale Leisure Centre Whitehaven Brass Band Contest - Open, Own Choice, 5 Classes - Civic Halls, Whitehaven. Contest details: 01946-61955 Allianz Brass Band Männedorf - Muttertagsständchen - Oberdorf Männedorf, Switzerland ASDA Stocksbridge Band - Centre Stage - Centre Vale Park, Todmorden, 3pm ASDA Stocksbridge Band - Glossop Band Club, Glossop, 8pm Basingstoke Silver Band - Victoria Park, Newbury Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Bandstand, Saltburn, 2pm Black Dyke Band - Newbury Spring Festival. Details: 01635 522733 Brass Band Posaunenchor Flaach - ETG, Bachenbülach, Switzerland BRASSDAY 2001 with James Watson and Luton Band - Hightown Recreation Centre, Old Bedford Road, Luton. Rehearsal 10.30am - 5pm. Concert 6pm. £10 for the day, players of all standards welcome. Details: Paul Clark, Tel: 020 8953 3240 or email: Steve Packer British Energy Morecambe Band - Morecambe Music Festival Entertainments Concert - The Dome, Morecambe, 7pm Brøttum Musikkforenings - Konsert m/ Lillehammer Trekkspillklubb - Lillehammer Burbage Band - Chatsworth Horse Trials, 11am Cantium Brass - Folkestone Bandstand, The Leas, Folkestone, 2.30pm Charles Church Camberley Band - Castle Grounds, Guildford, 2pm Clitheroe Town Band - Mayor Making, Clitheroe Cottingham Band - Parliament Square, York, 2pm - 4pm Cubbington Silver Band - The Dell, Warwick Place, Leamington Spa, 3pm Gateshead College Brass - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Launceston Town Band - Padstow Quay, 2.30pm MG Konkordia Aedermannsdorf - Muttertagsständchen - Aedermannsdorf, Switzerland, 11am Muller Cleobury Mortimer Band - Bridgnorth Civic Parade Ocean Brass - Hampshire Cricket Club, West End Pennine Brass - People's Park, Halifax Porthywaen Silver Band - Oswestry RBL parade and service, 2.30pm Rayleigh Brass - Rayleigh Brass Plays the Classics, Mill Hall, Rayleigh, 8pm Rocky Mountain Brassworks - Northglenn Community Center, Northglenn, Colorado, USA St Breward Silver Band - Garden day, Delank, St Breward,3pm St Keverne Youth Band + Mousehole MV Choir - Minack Theatre, 7.30pm Salt River Brass - Shall We Dance? - Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N Arizona Ave, Chandler AZ, USA, 3pm Slaidburn Silver Band - Rishton Methodist Church Procession - Rishton, 10am Smoky Mountain Brass Band - Performing Arts Center, Bryson City, NC, USA, 4pm South Brisbane Federal Band - Combined Bands Concert - Ithaca Auditorium, City Hall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2.30pm Travelsphere Holidays Band - "Brilliance of Brass" - Royton Assembly Hall, Market Square, Royton, Oldham, 1.30pm. Tickets (including hotpot lunch): 0161 911 4072 Tullylish Concert Band - Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 2pm Welwyn Garden City Band - Hornbeams Fete, Welwyn Garden City, 11am Whaley Bridge Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Worksop Miners Welfare Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm 15 May Spokane British Brass Band - Masters of Brass - The Met, 901 W. Sprague, Spokane, WA, USA, 7.30pm St Keverne Band - Opening Ceremony of the Eden Project Tewit Youth Band - Warfedale Competitive Music Festival - King's Hall Ilkley 16 May Ratby Co-operative Band - Wheatsheaf Theatre 17 May Buy As You View Cory Band - Sherborne Abbey, 7.30pm. Tickets: £12, £10, £8 from Abbey Shop, Tel: 01935-815191 Cirencester Band - South Cerney Chapel, Gloucestershire 7pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Grimethorpe, St Lukes Church Molde Brass Band - Festkonsert - Molde Kino, Molde, Norway 18 May Brass Band Burgermusik Luzern - Hasle, Switzerland Fanfare de Mont-sur-Rolle - Concert dans le cadre du Giron du Pied du Jura - Saint-Livres, Switzerland Killamarsh Silver Band - Wales Parish Church, Wales, 7.30pm New Forest Brass Band - Waterside Theatre, Holbury Tintwistle Band - Glossopdale Community College, 7.30pm 19 May BBC Radio 2 Youth Brass Band Competition Final (St Keverne Youth Brass Band + Greater Gwent Brass Band + Hallé Brass) - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 7.30pm. Free tickets from: 0161-273-4504 Survento Brassbandfestival - Surhuisterveen, Netherlands Allegheny Brass Band - Classical Brass - Marshall Middle School, Marshall Township, in Pittsburgh's North Hills, Pennsylvania, USA, 8pm. Information: Tel: +1 412-486-1888 Amersham Band - Hyde Heath Fete - The Common, Hyde Heath, 2pm Belfast Temple Band - Cornmarket, Belfast, 2pm Black Dyke Band - Long Melford Festival. Details: 01284 830936 Brass Band Burgermusik Luzern - Danis, Switzerland, 8pm Brass Band VeluweBrass Amersfoort - donateursconcert - Amersfoort, Netherlands BT Band + Stockport Schools Brass Band - The Plaza, Stockport Buy As You View Cory Band - Sherborne Abbey Carlisle Citadel Band - Upper Eden Baptist Church, Kirkby Stephen Charles Church Camberley Band - Bandstand, Woking Town, 11am Cobham Band - Woking Town Square, 2pm Copthorne Silver Band - Shipley School Fete - Shipley, Horsham, 2pm Cranbrook Town Band - Open Day, Angley School, 10am - 4pm Derwent Brass - Concert with the Grand Central Chorus - Town Hall, Loughborough Drighlington Band + Morley Music Society - Morley Town Hall East Yorkshire Brass - York, 2pm Ever Ready Band - Phoenix Theatre, Blyth, 7.30pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - William Anston Hall, Chester, 7.30pm. Tickets: £9-£7.50, Concs £1 off, Tel: 01978 292015 Grimsdyke Brass - WRENS Concert - Elliot Hall, Harrow Arts Centre, 7.30pm Hangleton Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 10am Hitchin Band - Herts Garden Show, Knebworth House, Knebworth Martlesham Brass - Martlesham Playgroup Melbourne Town Band - Etwall Well Dressing, Etwall, Derbyshire Nailsworth Silver Band + Avening Band - Minchinhampton Town Band Historical Concert - Minchinhampton Market House Oxted Band - St John's, Hurst Green, 7.45pm Patcham Silver Band - Patcham Duck Fayre, 1.30pm Renfrew Burgh Band - Town Centre, Renfrew Roberts Bakery Brass Band - Alsager Civic Centre, 7.30pm. Details: 01270 509573 Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Elford Village Fete St Helens Youth Band - Queens Hall, Widnes, Merseyside, 7.30pm St Peters Brass and Reed Band - Falls Park, Belfast, 2.30pm St Sebastian (Wokingham) Brass Band + Colgne Concert Brass - Holt School, Wokingham Silk Brass - Northwich Memorial Hall Skelmanthorpe Junior Band - Granary Wharf, Leeds Spennymoor Town Band - Elvet Methodist Church, Durham, 7.30pm. Tickets - £3.50 - Tel: 0191 384 7641 Thornsett Youth Band - Hayfield Carnival and May Queen Procession United Norwest Co-op Milnrow Band - Milnrow Carnival Procession Whitburn Band + St Ronans Silver Band - Memorial Hall, Innerleithen, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01896-831721 Williams Fairey Band - Burbage, Leicestershire Wiveliscombe Town Band - Parish Church Fete, Wiveliscombe, Somerset Woodbridge Excelsior Brass Band + Clacton Cooperative Brass Band - "An Evening Of Popular Music" - John Bray Theatre, BT Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, 7.30pm. Tickets: £3.50/£3 Youth Brass 2000 - Fete at Care Community near Market Harborough 20 May Leicestershire BBA NWLDC Own Choice Contest - Details: 01530-810221 Nostell Priory Yorkshire Challenge Contest Heat (Section A & C) - Nostell Priory. Details from Joan Ellis, Tel: 01924 890096 SCABA Entertainment Contest - The Hawth, Crawley - Details: 01932-846540 Weston-super-Mare Own Choice Contest - Winter Gardens. Details: 01271-860956 Battle Town Band - Pencester Gardens, Dover, Kent, 2.30pm Boarshurst Band - Glossop Band Club, 8pm Boxted Methodist Silver Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Brass Band Concert - Formby Hall, Atherton, Lancashire, 7.30pm. Tickets on door £4.00 and £3.50 British Energy Morecambe Band - Duck Race - Williamson Park, Lancaster, 12.30pm Chapel-en-le-Frith Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Chester Brass - Ellesmere Port Boat Museum Cholsey Silver Band - Mayor's Sunday Parade - Wallingford City Brass Stockholm - Missionskyrkan, Södertälje, Sweden, 6pm City of Coventry Brass - Memorial Park, Coventry, 3pm Clitheroe Town Band - Rotary Benefit Concert Cubbington Silver Band - Bandstand, The Botanical Gardens, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 2pm Flixton Band - Centre Stage - Centre Vale Park, Todmorden, 3pm Hannaford Street Silver Band + Spiritual to the Bone - St. Lawrence Centre, Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto, Canada, 3pm Hitchin Band - Herts Garden Show, Knebworth House, Knebworth Illinois Brass Band - Chicago Temple, Chicago, IL, USA, 2pm Kent Police Band - Memorial Bandstand, Deal, 2pm Morecambe Youth Band - Garden Party - Abbeystead Hall, 2.30pm Muller Cleobury Mortimer Band - Stratford upon Avon Newtongrange Silver Band + Easington Colliery Band - St.Mary's Church, Haddington, Lothian ntl Skelmanthorpe Band - Holme Band Club 1st Old Boys Association Silver Band - Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 2pm Penistone Grammar School Windband - Granary Wharf, Leeds Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Bethel Church, Preesall, 3pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Staffordshire Wildlife Fete, Whittington Thurcroft Welfare Band - Consort Suite, Thurcroft, 7.30pm Titan Hutt City Brass Band - Hutt Community Concert - Lower Hutt Town Hall, New Zealand United Norwest Co-op Milnrow Band - Navigation Inn, 2pm Wantage Silver Band - St Andrew's Fayre, Wantage Wilton and District Youth Band - Lymington bandstand, Bath Road, Lymington, 3pm Woodbridge Excelsior Brass Band - Aldeburgh Yorkshire Co-operatives Band - Formby Hall, Alders Street, Atherton, 7.30pm. £4/£3.50. Details: 01942 404817 / 876496 20-24 May International Trombone Festival - Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 21 May Martlesham Brass + LSO - Snape Maltings 22 May Imperial Brass Ensemble - Recital - St Mary's Church, Ashwell, 8pm 23-26 May International Trumpet Guild Conference - University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana, USA 23 May Drogheda Brass Band - "Student of the Year" concert - Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland, 8pm 24 May Band Of The Island Of Jersey - St. Helier Precinct/Royal Square, 8pm Brass Band Allianzmusik Basel - Platzkonzert - Innenstadt, Basel, Switzerland Brass Band Uri - Barocker Mai - Kloster St. Lazarus, Seedorf, Switzerland Musikverein Lausen - Marschmusik und Platzkonzert - Banntag, Lausen, Switzerland Saint Louis Brass Band - "Carnival of the Animals" - Kirkwood Cinema, 338 S. Kirkwood Road, Saint Louis, MO, USA, 7.30pm. Including March of the Toys, Tubby the Tuba, Carnival of the Animals, Four Cats. Williams Fairey Band - "Music Live" Listen to the Band - Morley Town Hall, Queen Street, Morley, Leeds, 7.30pm. Tickets: £6, £5 concessions. Tel: 08700 100 125 24-26 May Swedish Brass and Wind Band Festival - Jönköping, Sweden 25 May Brass Band Oberschwaben-Allgäu + Bürgermusik Luzern - Internationales Brass Band Gala-Konzert, Euregio-Musikfestival - Allgäu-Sporthalle, Sonthofen, Germany, 7.30pm Brass Band Uri - Barocker Mai - Kloster St. Lazarus, Seedorf, Switzerland Göteborg Brass Band - "EFS Blåsarmusikfest" - Karlskrona, Sweden, 8pm Langbaurgh Brass - "Child Call" Charity Concert - Marton Country Club, 7.30pm Melbourne Town Band - Melbourne Royal British Legion Todmorden Old Brass Band - Sounds Familiar - Todmorden Town Hall, 8pm. Tickets: (0706) 818822 Vernon Building Society Poynton Band - Bramhall Hall, evening 26 May Brass in Ripon - Festival and contest for 3rd, 4th Section and unregistered bands. Various concerts in the area early afternoon + own choice, entertainment contest in Ripon Cathedral from 3.30pm. Details: 01765-600491,or email: peter.gilby@ic24.net Annan Town Band - Carlisle City Centre Brass Band Cazis - Jahreskonzert - der Mehrzweckanlage Cazis, Switzerland, 8pm Brass Band Chemnitz - Markt, Chemnitz, Germany, 10am Brass Band Uri - Barocker Mai - Kloster St. Lazarus, Seedorf, Switzerland Canadian Staff Band - Anniversary Festival - Ford Center for the Performing Arts, North York, Ontario, Canada City of Stoke Brass - Endon Well Dressing, Endon, 2pm Cobham Band - Founders Day, Epsom College, 3.30pm Dalewool Auckland Brass Band - Karaka Showgrounds, Auckland, New Zealand Ensemble de Cuivres Valaisan - Concert de gala - Pully, Switzerland Freckleton Band - Lowther Pavilion, Lytham Hemel Hemstead Band - Wilstone Village Fete The London Tattoo - The Central Band of the Royal Air Force + many international military bands and other performers - Wembley Arena, 7.30pm. Tickets: £8 - £15.50 + concessions: 0870-739-9888. Musikgesellschaft Brass Band Auw - Musiktag Abtwil Provisorisch - Abtwil, Switzerland Pennine Brass - St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield University, 7.30pm St Peters Brass and Reed Band - Falls Park, Belfast, 2.30pm Saskatoon Brass Band - Farmers' Market, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Smithills School Senior Brass Band - Victoria Hall, Bolton, 7.30pm Standish Band - Leigh Bedford Band Reunion - Leigh Miners Welfare, Twist Lane, 7.30pm Sussex Brass - St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings, 7.30pm Wantage Silver Band - Art Exhibition - Stanford in the Vale Whitehaven Brass Band - Carlisle City Centre, 10am 26-28 May Music Live Weekend - hundreds of events around the country, but the focus is on the Yorkshire area 27 May All England Masters Brass Band Championships - Corn Exchange, Cambridge, 10am. Tickets: 01223-234090 Nostell Priory Yorkshire Challenge Contest Grande Finale Day - Nostell Priory. Details from Joan Ellis, Tel: 01924 890096 Alfredston Brass - Challow Park Recital Hall, Wantage, 8pm. Tickets £4 and £2 Arrow Valley Brass - Bandstand, Stratford Upon Avon, 2.30pm Beaumaris Band - Beaumaris Music Festival Concert, Canolfan Beaumaris, 7pm Bedworth Brass - Memorial Park, Coventry, 3pm Blewbury Brass Band - Newbury Band Stand Brass Band Uri - Barocker Mai - Kloster St. Lazarus, Seedorf, Switzerland British Energy Morecambe Band - Marsh Mill, Poulton-Le-Fylde, 2pm Cantium Brass - Herne Bay Bandstand, 2.30pm Chester Brass - Tatton Park, Cheshire, 2.15pm Cordula Brass Baden - Musiktag - Villnachern, Switzerland Dalewool Auckland Brass Band - Karaka Showgrounds, Auckland, New Zealand Dove Holes Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Durham Army Cadet Force Band - Town Park bandstand, Beamish Museum, 2pm Felling Brass Band - Gibeside Chapel Whickham, Gateshead, 1pm Fodens Band + Youth Brass 2000 - All England Masters Gala Concert - Corn Exchange, Cambridge, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01223-234090 Friary Guildford Brass Band - Bramley Fete GRAS NIGHT - Famous Asparagus auction and raffle with traditional brass band concert - The Fleece Inn, Bretforton, Worcestershire .Details: 01386 831717 Haydock Youth Band - Botanic Gardens, Churchtown, Southport, 2.15pm Hitchin Band - Kent Garden Show, Detling, Kent Langbaurgh Brass - Saltburn Bandstand, 2.30pm Leicestershire Co-op Snibston Charnwood Brass - Opening Ceremony - Snibston Discovery Park The London Tattoo - The Central Band of the Royal Air Force + many international military bands and other performers - Wembley Arena, 2pm. Tickets: £8 - £15.50 + concessions: 0870-739-9888. Martlesham Brass - Framlingham Frolics "Music Live" Songs of Praise broadcast - Millennium Square, Leeds, 2pm. Accompanied by a 1000 piece brass band in Leeds Town Hall. Free tickets - call: 08700 100 125 Nelson Brass Band - Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, 2pm 55th Old Boys Silver Band - Belfast Zoo, 3pm Ratby Co-operative Band - Co-op Concert - Birmingham NEC Reeth Brass Band - Swaledale Festival Concert - St Andrew's Church, Grinton, North Yorks, 7.30pm Snowdown Colliery Welfare Brass - Memorial Bandstand, Deal, 2pm Solid Brass - Wildwood Center for the Peforming Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, 7pm Stalham Brass Band - Songs of Praise, Tunstead Church, 7pm Standish Band - Alexandra Park Stanley Newmarket Colliery Band - Coppergate Centre, Coppergate, York, 10am Staple Silver Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Templemore Band - Musgrave Park, Belfast, 3pm Trimdon Concert Brass - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Tullylish Concert Band - Botanic Gardens, Belfast, 3pm Waltham Forest Co-op Band - Golders Hill Band Stand, Hampstead Heath, 3pm 28 May Bodmin Town Band - BBC Songs of Praise - Padstow Chadderton and District Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Cirencester Band - South Cerney Street Fair, Gloucestershire, 12pm Cranbrook Town Band - Central Bandstand, Herne Bay, 2.30pm Critters and Cornets - Bandstand, Mesnes Park, Wigan, 2pm. Details: 01942 828829 Denham Hendon Brass Band - May Bank Holiday Fete, Denham village, 2.00pm Eastbourne Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Egham Band - Ascot Carnival Parade and Concert, Ascot Hartlepool Silver Band - Town Park bandstand, Beamish Museum, 2pm Haslemere Town Band - Friendly Society Festival, South Harting, 10am Hitchin Band - Kent Garden Show, Detling, Kent Middleton Brass Band - East Lancashire Railway, Bury Otley Brass Band - Riverside Gardens, Ilkley, 2pm Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Garstang Gala, 10.15am Prairie Brass Band - River Forest Memorial Day Parade, River Forest, IL, USA Rayleigh Brass - St Clement's May Fair - Library Gardens, Leigh on Sea, 2pm Slaidburn Silver Band - Slaidburn May Queen Festival, Slaidburn 12.00 pm Wilton and District Youth Band - Oak Apple Day, Great Wishford, 2pm Worcester Concert Brass - Hereford Cathedral, p.m. Yiewsley and West Drayton Band - Fassnidge Park, Uxbridge, 2.30pm 29 May Easington Colliery Band - 50th Anniversary of the pit disaster at Easington Colliery. Easington Colliery, 5pm. Easington Colliery Working Men's Club, 8pm 30 May Brass Band Berner Oberland - GV Parkhaus Thun AG, Seepark Thun, Switzerland, 10am 31 May Band Of The Island Of Jersey - Howard Davis Park, 8pm Slaidburn Silver Band - Brass At The Bounty, Hark To Bounty Inn, Slaidburn 7.15 pm South Yorkshire Police Band - Swaledale Festival Concert - St Andrew's Church, Grinton, North Yorks, 8pm

June 2001

1 June Black Dyke Band - Kings Hall, Ilkley. Details: 01943 436200 Killamarsh Silver Band - St James Church, South Anston, 7.45pm Muker Silver Band - Swaldale Festival Concert - Muker Public Hall, 7.30pm St Ronans Silver Band - Whipman Play - West Linton 2 June Slaithwaite March Contest West of Scotland BBA Open Band Contest - Walker Halls, Troon Bedford Town Band - Holy Cross Church Fete Brass Band Berner Oberland - Breno, Ticino, Switzerland, 8pm Brass Band Burgermusik Luzern - Konzert-Gala 2001 - Kultur- und Kongresszentrum, Luzern, Switzerland, 7pm Brass Band Lüdinghausen - Platzkonzert Lünen, Germany, 1pm Canadian Staff Band - New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada Chalk Farm Band - Tavistock, Devon Cirencester Band - Purton Carnival, Wiltshire 2.30pm Constantine Silver Band + Stythians M/V Choir - Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, 2.30pm Copthorne Silver Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 2pm Ellesborough Silver Band - St Mary's Church, Wendover Ever Ready Band + Low Fell Singers - Caedmon Hall, Gateshead, 7pm Krohnengen Brass Band - Bergen, Norway New Buckenham Silver Band - Applewood Hall, Banham Zoo, Norfolk, 7.30pm North Ayrshire Band - Church Fete, Millport Parramatta City Band - Amphitheatre, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, 10am Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Garden Party, Garstang, 2pm Rockville Brass Band - Sandy Spring Strawberry Festival - Sandy Spring, MD, USA, 3pm Saint Louis Brass Band - Orpheum Theater, Hannibal, MO, USA, 7.30pm St Peter's Brass and Reed Band - Dunville Park, Belfast, 2pm Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Folkestone Bandstand, 2.30pm United Co-Op Band (Crewe) - Kings Hall, Stoke on Trent Worcester Concert Brass - Defford Fete Young Lancashire Brass - Marine Hall, Fleetwood, Details email: acattanach@btinternet.com 3 June Southend-on-Sea Brass Band Contest - Cliffs Bandstand, Westcliff on Sea, 11.30am onwards. Details: 01702 215120 Aldbourne Band - Pond Concert, Aldbourne Square, 7.15pm Amersham Band - Memorial Gardens-Old Amersham, 3pm Ballyduff Silver Band - Belfast Zoo, 3pm Barnetby Silver Band - Messingham Show Basingstoke Silver Band - Forbury Gardens, Reading, 3pm Bath Spa Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Betteshanger Band - Dover Bandstand Brass Band Berner Oberland - Riva San Vitale, Ticino, Switzerland, 8pm Brass Band of Columbus - Gazebo Concert - Whetstone Park of Roses, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 7pm Brass Band Oberschwaben-Allgäu - Galakonzert, Bundesmusikfest - Messehalle, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 7.30pm British Energy Morecambe Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Canadian Staff Band - New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada Cantium Brass - Broadstairs Bandstand, 2.30pm Chalk Farm Band - Tavistock, Devon Cirencester Band - Chesterton House, Cirencester, Gloucestershire 3pm City of Bristol Brass Band - Grove Park, Weston Super Mare. 2pm Clifton & Lightcliffe Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Clitheroe Town Band - Fence Rose Queen Walk Constantine Silver Band - Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, 2.30pm Coventry Festival Band - Spencer Park, 3pm Denton Brass - Old Hall Church Dukinfield - Whit Sunday Parade Denton Brass - St Stephen and Red Hall Churches, Audenshaw - Whit Sunday Parade 1.15pm Esbjerg Brass Band - Påskespil ved Treenighedskirken, Denmark, 9.30am Festival Brass - Spencer Park, Coventry, 3pm Fulham Brass Band - Golders Hill Park Bandstand, London NW11, 3pm Golborne Brass Band - Newchurch Parish Church Walking Day Hangleton Band - Hever Castle, 2pm Harmony Band - Parsons Close, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Hatfields of Colchester Band - Wivenhoe Songs of Praise Hebden Bridge Brass Band - Whit Sunday March - Shaw, Near Oldham Ilkeston Brass - Victoria Park, Ilkeston, 7pm Killamarsh Silver Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Laganvale Band - Barnett Demesne, Belfast, 3pm Lingfield Silver Band - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 2.30pm Muller Cleobury Mortimer Band - Birmingham Botanical Gardens New Buckenham Silver Band - Fete - Home Farm, Kimberley, 2pm New Forest Brass Band - Swanage Bandstand, 3pm + 6.30pm Northfleet Band - Deal Memorial Bandstand, 2pm Ocean Brass - Hampshire Cricket Club, West End Otley Brass Band - Fewston Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Civic Sunday, Garstang, 10am Potters Bar Town Band - St. James Church, Friern Barnet, 1pm Roberts Bakery Band + guest cornet soloist Mark Wilkinson (Principal Cornet of Fodens Band) - Northwich Memorial Hall, Northwich, Cheshire, 7.30pm. Tickets £6, £5 concessions, available from Nigel Birch: 01270-509573, 07790-361546. Scioto Valley Brass and Percussion Company - Mifflin Presbyterian Church Ice Cream Social, Mifflin, OH, USA, 3pm Silk Brass - Whit Sunday - Hyde Stamford Brass - Mayors Parade - Stamford, 10.20am Standish Band - Aspull Methodist Procession Syston Band - Queen's Park, Loughborough, 4.30pm Thornsett Youth Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm. Details: 01298 23114 Tubalaté + Besses Boys Band - Radcliffe Civic Hall United Norwest Co-op Milnrow Band - Whitsuntide Procession - St James, Thornham, 2pm Wantage Silver B Band - Service - Bandstand, Wantage 1pm Westoe (STHCT) Band - Drumhead Service - Hebburn Park, 2pm Whitehaven Brass Band - Eskdale Fisher Ground, 3pm Woking Brass Band - Craft Fair - Looseley House, Godalming, 12pm Yeadon Old Brass Band - Grand Opening of Bandstand - Yeadon Tarn, 2.30pm. (150+ year old band now back in form with a cracking programme) Yorkshire Volunteers Band - Castle Yard, Knaresborough, 3pm 4 June Brass Band Berner Oberland - Pfingstmontagsmatinée - Lötschbergsaal Spiez, Switzerland, 10am Brass Band Oberschwaben-Allgäu - Schwarzwald-Musikfestival - Freudenstadt, 8pm Easington Colliery Band - Easington Methodist Church Newtongrange Silver Band - Newtongrange Gala Senior Citizen's Concert 4-9 June International Horn Symposium - Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA 5 June Harrogate Band + Houston Choral Society - Ripon Cathedral 6 June Langley Band - Brandhall Labour Club, 8pm 8 June Tameside Whit Friday Brass Band Contest - Information: 0161-3423392 Whit Friday March Contests - Saddleworth, Tameside etc., 4.30pm onwards Castle Point Brass Band - Runnymede Hall, Kiln Road, Thundersley, Essex Ocean Brass - Bishops Waltham Parc & Dare Band + Treorchy Male Voice Choir - "Brass & Voices" (with vocalists Denise Leigh and Jacqueline Boucher) - The Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy, 7pm. Premiere of six new arrangements for choir and band commissioned by the festival fund. Programme includes Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs, arranged by Margie Antrobus and The Witches Sabbath from Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, arranged by Dr. Roy Newsome. Portsmouth City Band - Southampton Hilton Reddish Prize Gorton Silver Band - Denton Cricket Club The Salvation Army In Your Community - Brass bands, music, song and dance - a celebration of the work of the Salvation Army - Salters Shopping Centre, Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire. Details: 01905 772967 Woburn Sands Band - Woburn Abbey Garden Show 8-10 June French Open Brass Band Championships - City of Kings, Amboise, France. Information Fred Rhodes Tel: +44 (0) 161 620 3199 Becontree Brass - Barnados, Barkingside Parc & Dare Band Welsh Brass Arts Festival - The Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy. Concerts and masterclasses (see above and below) 9 June Solo & Quartet Contest - Bideford College, Bideford, Devon. Details: 01237-476649 Aldbourne Band - Wyvern, 7.30pm Amersham Band - National Centre for Epilepsy, Chalfont St Peter, 2pm Annan Town Band + St Johns Choir - Crichton Royal Church, Dumfries, 7.30pm Ashbourne Town Band - Bradbourne, 2.15pm Bedford Town Band - Husband Crawley Fete, 1.45pm Bo'ness and Carriden Band - Fauldhouse Gala Day Bon Accord Silver Band - CLAN Charity Carnival Brass Band 13 Etoiles - Nendaz, Switzerland Brass Band Berner Oberland - Gemeinschaftskonzert mit MG Oensingen - Bienkensaal Oensingen, Switzerland, 8pm Buy as you View Cory, guest soloist David Childs - Cliff Town Church, Southend on Sea, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01268-573111 or via www.brass-band.net Charles Church Camberley Band - Fleet Hospital Fete, 2pm City of Stoke Brass - Swan Bank Church, Burslem, 7.30pm Crystal Palace Band - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Cubbington Silver Band - Cubbington Village Church Fête - Village Hall, Broadway, Cubbington Dalmellington Band - Hollybush House Summer Fete Denham Hendon Brass - Abbots Langley Carnival, 1pm Derwent Brass - Concert with Salvation Army Choir - Landau Forte College, Derby Easington Colliery Band - Carlisle City Centre East London Brass - Roehampton Enfield Salvation Army Band - Salvation Army Hall, Booth Street, Castleford, 7.00pm. Details: 01405 862269 Ever Ready Band + Tudhoe Grange Schools Band - Leisure Centre, Spennymoor, 7pm Freckleton Band - Kirkham Club Day, 8.30am Guernsey Concert Band - Cambridge Park Floral Guernsey Harrogate Band - Christchurch Hall, Harrogate, 7.30pm The Heath Band - St Barnabas, Linslade, 10.45am Hebden Bridge Brass Band - Hebden Bridge Carnival Holymoorside Band - Old Brampton Church Fayre - Homehall School, 2.15pm Jackfield Elcock Reisen Band - Tong Church Kibworth Brass Band - Concert in the Park + Fireworks Display - Wistow Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets: £10 advance ticket, £12.50 on the night. Children half price. 0116 278 6377 Killamarsh Silver Band - Market Square, Chesterfield, 12pm Knaresborough Band - Bed Race Parade, Knaresborough, 12.30pm Langley Band - Aldridge Parish Church, 7.30pm Leicestershire Co-op Snibston Charnwood Brass - Holy Cross Fete, Whitwick Liberty Brass Band - Konzert mit LBB Junior - Gossau, Switzerland, 8pm Liss Band - Liss Carnival, 2pm Muker Silver Band - Carlton Foresters' Walk Musikverein Künten - Jahreskonzert Jugendspiel - Rohrdorferberg, Switzerland Newstead Welfare Band - Gala - Broomfield College ntl Skelmanthorpe Band - St. Paul's Church, Huddersfield Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Opening Ceremony - Fairplace Enhancement Scheme, Okehampton Parc & Dare Band + James Watson - Masterclass/recital on the art of performance - The Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy, 4pm. Parc & Dare Band + James Watson - "Stars in Brass" - The Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy, 7pm. Including a new work for trumpet soloist and band by Andrew Powell and a new work by Peter Graham. Ratby Co-operative Band - Woodhouse Eaves St Peter's Brass and Reed Band - Falls Park, Belfast, 2.30pm The Salvation Army In Your Community - Brass bands, music, song and dance - a celebration of the work of the Salvation Army - Salters Shopping Centre, Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire. Details: 01905 772967 Stalham Brass Band - Garden Party - Stalham Vicarage, 2pm Stannary Brass Band - Buckland Monachoram Fair Taverham Band - Easton Church, Near Norwich, 7.30pm Tewit Youth Band - Knaresborough Bed Race Unity Brass + Pam Ayres - Town Hall, Burton on Trent, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01283-508000 Waikato Times Hamilton Brass Band - "East meets West" - A concert contrasting the slavonic music of Eastern Europe against the more upbeat music of the USA - Founders Theatre, Hamilton, New Zealand Waltham St Lawrence Silver Band - Maidenhead Carnival, 11.30am Woburn Sands Band - Woburn Abbey Garden Show Woking Brass Band - Woking Band Stand, 11am Yiewsley and West Drayton Band - Jordans Fete, 2pm Yorkshire Building Society Band - Whitley Bay Playhouse, 7.30pm 10 June Abbey Brass - Wallingford Castle Gardens Ashbourne Town Band - Victoria Square, Ashbourne, 3.00pm Band of the Wiltshire Constabulary - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Basingstoke Silver Band - Victoria Park, Newbury Becontree Brass Band - Barnados, Barkingside Bedford Town Band - Riverside Park, Huntingdon 2.30pm Bon Accord Silver Band - Charity Fun Day - Aden Country Park, Mintlaw, 1.30pm Brass Band Allianzmusik Basel - Platzkonzert - Kutschenmuseum, Basel, Switzerland Breckland Brass Band - Euston Park Rural Pastimes Bretforton Silver Band - Royal British Legion Club, Bretforton British Energy Morecambe Band - St Barnabas Parade - West End, Morecambe, 1.30pm Burbage Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm. Details: 01298 23114 Chalk Farm Band - Bandstand, Parliament Hill, London Chester Brass - Well Dressing Ceremony - Plemstall Church, Mickle Trafford City of Cambridge Brass Band - Riverside, Ely, 2.30pm Clitheroe Town Band - Clitheroe Folk Festival Comber Silver Band - Ormeau Park, Belfast, 3pm Cordula Brass Baden - Musiktag - Leuggern, Switzerland Coventry Salvation Army Band - Allesley Park, Coventry, 3pm CWA Brass - Victoria Park, Belfast, 3pm Dronfield Band - Chatsworth Park, 1.30pm East London Brass - Stevenage Gawthorpe Brass '85 - Crossflatts Park. Leeds Glynde and Beddingham Band - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Grangemoor Brass Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Grimsdyke Brass - Tithe Barn, Heritage Museum, Harrow, 1pm Gweek Silver Band - Mawgan Service & Concert - Mawgan, 6.30pm Harborough Band - Welland Park Bandstand Hathersage Brass Band - Grindleford Gala, Bridge Field, Grindleford Heath Band - Parsons Close, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Hungerford Town Band - Bandstand, John Coles Park, Chippenham, 3pm Jackfield Elcock Reisen Band - Telford Town Park KM Gillingham Band - Deal Memorial Bandstand, 2pm Knaresborough Silver Band - Knaresborough Castle Yard, 3pm Leigh Silver Band - St. Paul's Walking Day, Westleigh Leyland Band - Masterclass with Dr Roy Newsome - The Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy, 4pm. Marshside Brass Band - St Simons's Church, Churchtown, Southport MG Konkordia Aedermannsdorf - Bezirksmusiktag Thal-Gäu, Kestenholz, Switzerland Midsummer Music - Hardcastle Crags, Hollin Hall, Crimsworth Dean, West Yorkshire, 2pm. Details: 01422 844518 Parc & Dare Band + Leyland Band - Gala Concert - The Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy, 7pm. Including Howard Snell's new work for double band "Images of the Millenium" and a new arrangement by Dr. Roy Newsome of Excerpts from Carmina Burana. Pennine Brass - People's Park, Halifax Pittington Brass - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Poole Borough Band - Compton Acres, Poole, 2pm Riddings B Band - Coffee Evening - Riddings Community Centre, 7.45pm Rolls-Royce (Derby) Band - Birmingham Botanical Gardens Rothwell Temperance Band - Royal British Legion Parade - Rothwell St Sebastian (Wokingham) Brass Band - Mayor's Parade, Wokingham Stamford Brass Band - Abbey Green, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, 2.30pm Standish Band - Hindley All Saints Procession Stannary Brass Band - Newton Abbot Bandstand Sussex Brass - All Saints Church, Hastings, 6.45pm Thornton Brass - Victoria Park, Ilkeston, 7pm Thurlstone Band - Penistone Well Dressing Tylorstown Band - Penarth Pier, 2.30pm United Norwest Co-op Milnrow Band - Whitsuntide Procession - St James, Milnrow, 11.30am United Northwest Co-operative Band - The Bandstand, The Groves, Chester, 2pm. Details: 01244 402446 Unity Brass + Pam Ayres - St George's Hall, Bristol, 7.30pm. Tickets: 0117-9230359 Waltham St Lawrence Silver Band - Waltham St Lawrence Fete Wem Jubilee Band - Ellesmere British Legion Parade White Rose Concert Band - Recreation Field, Pateley Bridge, 3pm Woburn Sands Band - Woburn Abbey Garden Show 11 June Tadley Band - Ambrose Allen Centre, Tadley, 8pm 12 June Brass Band of Columbus - Gloria Dei Worship Center of The Trinity Lutheran Seminary, corner of East Main Street and College Avenue, Bexley, Ohio, USA, 7.30pm IADA Trombone Quartet - The Bandstand, Kensington Gardens, London, 5.30pm - 7pm Manx Youth Band - Villa Marina Garden Room, Douglas, 8pm 13 June RAF Regiment Band - Melton Theatre, Asfordby Road, Melton Mowbray. Details: 01664 851111 Rockville Brass Band - Gaithersburg Library, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 7.30pm 14 June Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band - Brighouse Methodist Church Brio Brass - Rose Fest, Roseville, MN, USA, 7pm Newmilns & Galston Band - Gala Concert Morton Hall, Newmilns 14-17 June Fête Fédérale de Musique - Fribourg, Switzerland 15 June Band Of The Island Of Jersey - Government House, Jersey Cubbington Silver Band - St. Mary's Hall, Coventry, 7pm Freckleton Band - Fylde Rugby Club Newtongrange Silver Band - Loanhead Carnival Parade Stannary Brass Band - Endsleigh House, Milton Abbot 15-17 June Great American Brass Band Festival - Danville, Kentucky, USA 16 June West of England Bandsmen's Festival - Molinnis Park, Bugle, Cornwall. Arrow Valley Brass - Hanbury Hall Fete, Hanbury Besses o' th' Barn Band - Huntingdon, 7.30pm Bo'ness and Carriden Band - Grangemouth Gala Day Brassbandfestival Steenwijk, Netherlands Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band - Blackburn Brøttum Musikkforenings - Konsert i Gågata - Lillehammer/Brumunddal Bundaberg Municipal Band - "Best of British" Concert, Australia. Details: sgl@bigpond.com Burbage Band - Chapel Carnival, 1pm Chester Brass - Lord Mayor's Parade, Chester Crystal Palace Band - The Leas Cliff Bandstand, Folkestone, 2.30pm Dalmellington Band - Mid Season Patrons Concert, Dalmellington Community Centre Denton Brass - Victoria Park, 2pm Driffield Band - Walkington, 2pm Dronfield Band - Ecclesall Churches Garden Party, 2.15pm + 4pm East London Brass - Stoke Newington Festival, 12pm Enfield Citadel Band - "Summer Spectacular" - The Friars, Aylesford, Maidstone, 7pm. Tickets £5 from 01622-682120 Epsom and Ewell Silver Band - Village Fair, Ewell, 11am Esbjerg Brass Band - Foyerkoncert, Musikhuset Esbjerg, Denmark, 2pm Farndon & District Brass Band - Hammond School 55th Old Boys Silver Band - Castle Place, Belfast, 2pm Freckleton Band - Freckleton Club Day, 8.30am Gawthorpe Brass '85 + guest soloist Morgan Griffiths (euphonium) - Town Hall, Morley, Leeds, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 and £3 from andy@andyfield.freeserve.co.uk Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Basingstoke, Anvil Theatre Hangleton Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 10am Hangleton Band - Hangleton Infant School Fete, 1.30pm Harborough Band - Church Langton Church Hebden Bridge Brass Band - Harden Gala Hemel Hemstead Band - St Thomas's Church, Watford Illinois Brass Band - Grand Celebration of Brass Bands, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA, 12pm - 4pm Liskeard Silver Band - Polperro Festival, 7pm Marshside Brass Band - Walking Day - St. James's Church, Birkdale, Southport, 2pm Menai Bridge Band Porthaethwy - Fair - Ysgol Faenol Mossley Band - Middlewich Folk & Canal Festival Newmilns & Galston Band - Newmilns Gala Day Newstead Welfare Band - Codnor Church, 7.30pm Otley Brass Band - Otley Carnival Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - St.Michael's Gala, 1.30pm Porthywean Silver Band - The Bandstand, The Groves, Chester, 2pm. Details: 01244 402446 Portsmouth City Band - Riverside School Ratby Co-operative Band - Thornton Church Rayleigh Brass - Brandy Hole Yacht Club Regatta, Hullbridge, 2pm Renfrew Burgh Band - Barshaw Gala Day, Paisley Rockville Brass Band - MD Community Band Day - Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, MD, USA Rogerstone Band - Aberdare Park, 3pm Rolls Royce Coventry Band - Brass Spectacular - Methodist Central Hall, Coventry, 7.30pm St Albans City Band - Hertfordingbury Show Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - River School Fete, 2pm Spennymoor Town Band - Gala Concert with Sheona White (horn) - Town Hall, Spennymoor, 7.30pm. Tickets £4, Tel: 01388-815276 Stannary Brass Band - Albaston Fete Stonesfield Silver Band - Gala Day - Stanton Harcourt, 1.15pm Syston Band - Wreake Valley Community College Theatre, 7.30pm Tintwistle Bands - Tintwistle Bandroom, 7.30pm Waltham St Lawrence Silver Band - Brookwood School Fete, Woking Watership Brass - Joint Concert with Sea Cadets - Newbury Baptist Church, 7.30pm Wellingborough Band of the Salvation Army - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Wem Jubilee Band - Shrewsbury Carnival and Show Whitburn Band - Dunblane Arts Guild, Dunblane Cathedral, Dunblane Whitehaven Brass Band - School Fete and Parade - St Bees, 1pm Williams Fairey Band - Corn Exchange, Ipswich, 7.30pm Wilton and District Youth Band - Langford Fete, Steeple Langford, 1.45pm Youth Brass 2000 - Rushden Salvation Army Hall 17 June Kirkby Lonsdale Contest- Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria. 4th section only contest (march and own-choice test piece) Rhyl Festival of Brass - Band Contest (Youth + Fourth Section bands) - Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl. Information: 01745-332414 Rhyl Festival of Brass - Solo, Duet and Quartet Competitions - Town Hall, Rhyl. Information: 01745-332414 Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Evesham Bandstand, Evesham, 2.30pm Band of Avon Fire Brigade - Royal Victoria Park, Bath, 3pm Band of the Parachute Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am, 3pm, 7.45pm Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Royal Naval Association March - Durham Cathedral Bedford Town Band - Bassetts Close Park, Wellingborough, 3pm & 6pm Birchwood Community Band - The Bandstand, The Groves, Chester, 2pm. Details: 01244 402446 Blewbury Brass Band - Load of Mischief, South Street, Blewbury Brass Band Concert - Formby Hall, Atherton, Lancashire, 7.30pm. Tickets on door £4.00 and £3.50 British Energy Morecambe Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Browfield Band - Victoria Park, Ilkeston, 7pm Chalk Farm Band - Bandstand, Parliament Hill, London Chapeltown Silver Prize Band - Wetherby Bandstand Cirencester Band - Bandstand - Abbey Grounds, Cirencester, Gloucestershire 3pm City Brass Band - Parsons Close, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm City of Bristol Brass Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 11am & 3pm Cobham Band - Canbury Gardens Bandstand, Lower Ham Road, Kingston, 3pm Crosskeys Silver Band - Bedwellty Park, Tredegar, pm Cubbington Silver Band - Bandstand, Caldecott Park, Rugby, 2pm Dalewool Auckland Brass Band - Showtime! - Sky City Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2.30pm Driffield Band - Walkington, 12.30pm Dronfield Band - Victoria Park, Ilkeston, 7pm East London Brass - Rye Park, Hoddesdon, 3pm East Yorkshire Brass - Sewerby, 2pm Elland Silver Band - Granary Wharf, Leeds Esbjerg Brass Band - Koncert, Fladengrund, Denmark, 4pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Taunton, Brewhouse Theatre Gweek Silver Band - Mawnan Smith Carolaire & Short Concert - Mawnan Smith, 6pm Hatfields of Colchester Band - Halstead Park Hebden Bridge Junior Band - Recreation Field, Pateley Bridge, 3pm Hooe Village Band - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 2.30pm Launceston Town Band - Padstow Quay, 2.30pm Liskeard Silver Band - Civic Parade - Liskeard, 10.30am Liss Band - Bandstand, Guildford, 2pm Littleport Brass Band - Abbey Green, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, 2.30pm Maghull Town Band - Botanic Gardens, Churchtown, Southport, 2.15pm Marshside Brass Band - British Legion Parade - Anglican Cathederal, Liverpool, 2pm Muker Silver Band - West Burton Council Concert, pm New Buckenham Silver Band - Bandstand, Everitt Park, Oulton Broad, Norfolk, 2pm New Forest Brass Band - Lymington Bandstand, 2.45pm + 7pm Rogerstone Band - Barry Island, 2.30pm Rogerstone Band - Parkway Hotel, 8pm Rolls-Royce (Derby) Band - Abington Gardens, Northampton St Sebastian (Wokingham) Brass Band - Carnival Parade, Wokingham Sellers International Band - Formby Hall, Alders Street, Atherton, 7.30pm. £4/£3.50. Details: 01942 876496 South Brisbane Federal Band - New Farm Park, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2.30pm Standish Band - Coppull Parish Procession Swindon Pegasus Brass - Park Concert - Bandstand, Stroud Leisure Centre, Stroud, 3pm Swinton & District Excelsior Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Thornbury Band - Salcombe Festival, Salcombe, Devon, 3pm Titan Hutt City Brass Band - Fielding Festival - Fielding Town Hall, New Zealand Vernon Building Society Poynton Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm. Details: 01298 23114 Wantage Silver Band - Stanford in the Vale Festival Weston Brass - Blake Gardens, Bridgwater, 3pm Whitburn Band - 11th Annual Duck Derby, Polkemmet Park, Whitburn White Rose Concert Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Whitstable Band - Deal Memorial Bandstand, 2pm Woodbridge Excelsior Brass Band - Aldeburgh Worcester Concert Brass - Worcester Cricket Ground 18 June Band of the Parachute Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Stonesfield Silver Band - The Priory, Burford, 6.30pm 19 June Band of the Parachute Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Bo'ness and Carriden Band - Linlithgow Marches Bradwell Silver Band - Two Mile Ash School Majestic Brass Quintet - The Bandstand, Kensington Gardens, London, 5.30pm - 7pm Stonesfield Silver Band - The Priory, Burford, 6.30pm 20 June Band of the Parachute Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Constantine Silver Band - Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, 8pm Liskeard Silver Band - Liskeard Floral Dance, 6.30pm Scarborough Concert Band - Central Hall, Queen Street , Scarborough, 7.45pm 21 June Band Of The Island Of Jersey - Howard Davis Park, 8pm Band of the Parachute Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Brass Band Allianzmusik Basel - Basler Musikstafette - Basel, Switzerland Brass Band Chemnitz - Platner Hof, Chemnitz, Germany, 6pm Liskeard Silver Band - Westbourne Garden Fete, Liskeard, 6.30pm Sandhurst Silver Band - Woking Bandstand, 10.30am Thurlstone Band - Penistone Civic Service - St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, 6.45pm 22 June Band of the Parachute Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Brass Band Bürgermusik Lucerne - Forum, Fribourg, Switzerland, 8.30pm British Open Brass Band Golf Championship - Chapel-en-le-Frith Golf Course, High Peak, Derbyshire (4-man team and individual stableford events plus 9-hole Texas scramble). Details contact Stan Lippeatt, 01623-822-672 Creswell Brass Band - St. Peter's Church, Elmton, 7pm. Details: 01909 721695 Crosskeys Silver Band + Beaufort Male Voice Choir - Bethany Baptist Church, Risca, 7.30pm. Admission £5 and £3 Muker Silver Band - Richmond Parish Church Water Band - Valley Brass - Astoria, Rawtenstall 22-24 June Fête Fédérale de Musique - Fribourg, Switzerland 23 June Ballyduff Silver Band - Grove Playing Fields, Belfast, 2pm Barrhead Burgh Band - Bonnybridge Gala Day Basingstoke Silver Band - Worting Church Fete, Worting Infants School, 2.00pm Black Dyke Band - Halifax Blewbury Brass Band - Blewbury Village Fete, 1pm Bo'ness and Carriden Band - Linlithgow Gala Day Brass Band Festival, Ashland, Kentucky, USA Brass Band Uri - Vorbereitungskonzert für Weltmusikfestival in Kerkrade - Aula in Schattdorf, Switzerland Burry Port Town Band - Memorial Hall, Burry Port, 7.15pm Cambridge University Brass Band - St Mark's Church Fète Castleton Band - St Peter's Church, Hope, Derbyshire, 7.30pm Charles Church Camberley Band - Camberley Carnival Cirencester Band - Hunters Care Centre, Cirencester Cobham Band - St John's Church Fete, West Byfleet, 12pm Coventry City Salvation Army Band - "Music for a Summer's Evening" - St John's Church, Deepcar, Near Stocksbridge, 7.30pm. Tickets £2, available from 0114 - 2885566/2668127 Croydon Brass Band - Rangers Fete - South Nutfield Derwent Brass - Concert with Stephen Mead - Town Hall, Burton, Staffordshire. Tickets from 01283-535333 Eastern Iowa Brass Band - Sturgis Falls Celebration - Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA Farndon & District Brass Band - Coedpoeth Carnival Fishburn Band + Simone Rebello - Empire Theatre, Consett. Tickets £4, £3 on door or 01207-218171 Fodens (Cortois) Band + NOEL Singing for Fun Children's Choir - Victoria Theatre, Halifax, 7.30pm. Details: (01422) 351158 Freckleton Band - Lytham Club Day, 9am Golborne Brass Band - Christ Church, Padgate Walking Day Harrogate Band - "Picnic in the Park", St Andrews Church, Much Hadham, Herts, 7.00pm Hitchin Band - Boardhill Gardens, Hayward's Heath, Sussex Huddersfield Brass Ensemble + Huddersfield U3A Choir - A Celebration of Brass & Voices - Blackley Baptish Church, 7.30pm. £5. Tel: (01422) 372766 / 378982 Ibstock Brick Brass - Band in the Park - Botcheston, Leicestershire, 7pm Laganvale Band - Drumglass Park, Belfast, 3pm Lanchester Brass Band - Lanchester Lions' Carnival, Lanchester, 1pm Langley Band - Barlow Playhouse, 7.30pm Launceston Town Band - Victorian Market - Launceston Town Square, 11.00am Lions Concert: Brass Band And Choir - Macclesfield Silk Museum, Roe Street Macclesfield. Details: 01625 613210 Liskeard Silver Band - Liskeard Carnival, 6.15pm Melbourne Town Band - Stanton-by-bridge Fete, Derbyshire, 2pm North Fylde Brass Band - Lytham Gala + Lowther Gardens, Lytham, p.m. Parramatta City Band - Amphitheatre, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, 10am PHG Lindley Band (Senior Cup Winners 2001) - "A Summer Festival" with Phillip McCann, The Huddersfield Singers and The Eclipse Saxophone quartet - Huddersfield Town Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets available from the Tourist Information Office, Albion Street, Huddersfield. Tel. 01484 223200. £5 and £3 Reeth Brass Band - Catterick Village Fete, 7.30pm St Breward Silver Band - Blisland Church Fete, 2pm St Ronans Silver Band - Peebles Beltane Festival, Peebles Seaford Silver Band - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Walmer Parish Fete, 11am Stalham Brass Band - Fete - Halsey House, RBL, Cromer, 2pm Stamford Brass - Festival Parade- Stamford, 2pm Stannary Brass Band - Horrabridge Midsummer Fair Subtopbrassfestival - Steenwijk, Netherlands Summerbridge and Dacre Silver Prize Band - Hymnathon - St Cuthbert's Church, Pateley Bridge, 10am Sussex Brass - Polegate CP School Fete - Polegate Tideswell Band - Well Blessings & Parades, Tideswell, 3pm, 7.30pm and 10pm United Co-Op Band (Crewe) - Combomere Abbey Unity Brass + Pam Ayres - Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01553-764864 Welwyn Garden City Band - Sir Frederic Osborne School Fete, Welwyn Garden City, 2pm Whitburn Band - Whitburn Gala Day, Whitburn Whitehaven Brass Band - Maritime Festival - Whitehaven Harbour Yorkshire Building Society Band + Hertford Choral Society - All Saints Church, Hertford, 7.30pm 24 June Brass and Trams Festival - NEMBBA Entertainments contest for Youth, 4th, 3rd and 2nd section bands - National Tramway Museum, Crich, Matlock, Derbyshire Rhyl Festival of Brass - Band Contest (Third, Second and Open Section bands) - Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl. Information: 01745-332414 Aberdeen City Band - Fort George, Ardersier, Scotland, 1pm. Details: 01667 460232 Arrow Valley Brass - Burcot Grange, Burcot ASDA Stocksbridge Band - Shepley Conservative Club Ashbourne Town Band - Elkstone Wakes Band of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am, 3pm, 7.45pm Basingstoke Silver Band - St Michael's Hospice Big Bike Ride, Basingstoke Memorial Park Bedworth Brass - Longford Park, Coventry, 3pm Betteshanger Band - Deal Memorial Bandstand, 2pm Bo'ness and Carriden Band - Kirking of the Queen for Bo'ness Fair Day Bradwell Silver Band - Milton Keynes Carnival Brass Band Posaunenchor Flaach - Schlosshofserendade - Schloss Flaach, Switzerland, 7.45pm Brass in the Park - Pennington Hall Park, Leigh. Details: 01942 404853 British Energy Morecambe Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Camborne Town Band + Fourlanes Male Voice Choir - Guildhall, St Ives City of Chester Band - The Bandstand, The Groves, Chester, 2pm. Details: 01244 402446 City of Bristol Brass Band - St George's Park, Bristol, 3pm City of Cambridge Brass Band - Riverside Park, St. Neots, 2.30pm City of Lincoln Band - Victoria Park, Ilkeston, 7pm Copthorne Silver Band - Abbeyfield House, Horsted Keynes, 2pm Coventry Festival Band - Broadgate Suite, Hotel Leofric, 12pm Crosskeys Silver Band - Waunfawr Park, Crosskeys, pm Croydon Brass Band - Pavilion Lawns Bandstand, Brighton Crystal Palace Band - Parliament Hill Bandstand, Hampstead Heath, 3pm Downshire Brass - Drumglass Park, Belfast, 3pm Enderby Band - War memorial, Littlethorpe East London Brass - Priory Grounds, Ware, 3pm Felling Brass Band - Gibeside Chapel Whickham, Gateshead, 1pm Foss Dyke Band - Dysart Park, Grantham, 3pm Fulham Brass Band - Strawberry Fayre - Ely Place, City of London Golborne Brass Band - St.Aidan's, Billinge Walking Day Great Horwood Band - Parsons Close, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Hall Royd Band - Spa Gardens, Ripon, 3pm Harborough Band - Melton Mowbray Bandstand Harrogate Band - Central Park, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 2.00pm Hatfields of Colchester Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Haverhill Silver Band - In Concert with guest Eb Bass soloist Robin Norman B.Mus RNCM, solo Eb Bass player with the Travelsphere Holidays Band - Haverhill Town Hall Arts Centre, 8pm-10pm. Tickets £3 and £4, from Haverhill Townhall Arts Centre - 01440 714140 (10.00 - 19.30, Mon to Sat) Hemel Hemstead Band - Potten End Village Open Day Hitchin Band - Boardhill Gardens, Hayward's Heath, Sussex Houghtons Area Youth Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Hungerford Town Band - Chestnut Walk Fete, 3pm Lanchester Brass Band - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Langley Band - Stratford upon Avon, 2.30pm Launceston Town Band - Rotary Club Concert - Parkhoue Centre, Bude, 8.00pm Leigh Silver Band - Pennington Park, Leigh Marshside Brass Band - Girl Guide's Parade - Formby, 2.30pm Midsummer Music - Hardcastle Crags, Hollin Hall, Crimsworth Dean, West Yorkshire, 2pm. Details: 01422 844518 Mossley Band - Glossop Band Club Muller Cleobury Mortimer Band - Kinnerley British Legion Parade Ocean Brass - Hampshire Cricket Club, West End Pateley Brass Ensemble - Joe Longster Bandstand, Pateley Bridge, 7.30pm Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Pilling Patronal Festival, 2pm Poole Borough Band - Compton Acres, Poole, 2pm Rushden Town Band - Abbey Green, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, 2.30pm St Dennis Band - Victoria Gardens, Truro, 2.30pm St Peter's Brass and Reed Band - Falls Park, Belfast, 2.30pm Slaidburn Silver Band - Piece Hall, Halifax 12.30 pm Solid Brass - Wildwood Center for the Peforming Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, 7pm Smoky Mountain Brass Band - Performing Arts Center, HART Theater, Waynesville, NC, USA, 7.30pm South Brisbane Federal Band - Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1.30pm Standish Band - Standish St Wilfreds Procession Swinton & District Excelsior Band - Smiddy Hill, Pickering, 2pm Tewit Youth Band - Songs of Praise - Methodist Church, Pateley Bridge, 10am Tewit Youth Band - Nidderdale Festival Parade & Concert - Pateley Bridge, 2pm Tewit Youth Junior Band - Garden Party, Lower Dunsforth Third Carrickfergus Band - Barnett Demesne, Belfast, 3pm Triangle Brass Band - Greenwood Forest Baptist Church, Cary, North Carolina, USA, 7.30pm United Norwest Co-op New Mills Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm. Details: 01298 23114 Unity Brass + Pam Ayres - St Andrew's Hall, Norwich, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01603-628319 Waltham St Lawrence Silver Band - Forbury Gardens Watership Brass - Eastrop Park, Basingstoke, 3pm Websters Dinnington Colliery Band - West Park, Long Eaton, 7pm Westoe (STHCT) Band - Riverside Park, Chester-le-Street, 2pm Whitehaven Brass Band - Maritime Festival - Whitehaven Harbour Wilsden Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Wilton and District Youth Band - Swanage Bandstand, Swanage, 3pm & 6pm Woburn Sands Band - Stables Fundrasing Concert - The Stables, Wavendon, 2.30pm. Tickets: 01908 643085 Yorkshire Evening Post Band - Bay Horse Farm, Fairburn 25 June Band concert - The Princess, Burnham-on-Sea, 7.45pm Band of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Brass Band Allianzmusik Basel - Platzkonzert - Klink Sonnenhalde, Riehen, Switzerland 26 June Band of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Brassband Halleluja - Nij Statelan, Menaldum, Netherlands Cincinnati Brass Band - President's Park, Edgewood, Kentucky, USA, 7pm Melbourne Staff Band - Broadmead Baptist Church, Union Street, Bristol, 7.30pm. Tickets, £5 26-30 June Skyline Brass Music Festival - James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA 27 June Band of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Melbourne Staff Band - Fareham Hall, Fareham, 7.30pm. Tickets £6 - 01329-231942 Oberaargauer Brass Band - Marschmusikparade - Langenthal, Switzerland St Ronans Silver Band - Fancy Dress Parade - Galashiels 28 June Band of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Freckleton Band - Coach & Horses Concert (Ponky's), 8pm Hemel Hemstead Band - W.I. Concert, St Albans Arena Lympstone South West Telecoms Brass Band - Mini Concert - St Peters School, Lympstone, 7.00pm Slaidburn Silver Band - Brass At The Bounty, Hark To Bounty Inn, Slaidburn 7.15 pm Stalham Brass Band - Royal Norfolk Show, a.m. 28 June - 22 July World Music Contest - Kerkrade, Netherlands Bo'ness and Carriden Band - Fair E'en 29 June Arrow Valley Brass - Inkberrow Music Festival, Inkberrow Band of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Bodmin Town Band - Bandstand concert - Priory Lawn, Bodmin, 7.45pm Bo'ness and Carriden Band - Boness Fair Day Brass Band Burgermusik Luzern - Kurplatz Luzern, Switzerland, 8.15pm Lympstone South West Telecoms Brass Band - Exmouth Summer Festival Concert, Holy Trinity Church, 7.30pm Melbourne Staff Band - Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from 01908-200139 Musikgesellschaft Brass Band Auw - Quartierkonzert - Unterdorf, Switzerland Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Marine Hall, Fleetwood, 7.30pm St Ronans Silver Band - Walkerburn Summer Festival Weaver Building Group Brass Band - Elsecar Heritage Centre, Wath Road, Elsecar, 7.30pm. Tickets, £4. 30 June Aberystwyth 10-Piece Brass Band Contest - Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig, Aberystwyth. Details: 01970-623981 Easingwold March And Deportment Contest - Market Square, Easingwold, N. Yorks, 6pm onwards Aldbourne Band - Aldbourne Fete, The Green, Aldourne Village, 2pm Amersham Band - St Georges Church Fete, Ley Hill, 2pm Annan Town Band - Riding of the Marches - Annan High Street, 10.30am Basingstoke Silver Band - Woodley Town Centre, 2pm Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Durham Carnival - Esh Winning Bedford Town Band - All Saints Church Annual Fete, Kempston, 2pm Brass Band Lüdinghausen - Musikfest Pferdewiese Lüdinghausen, Germany Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band - Selby Abbey Brighton Silver Band - Henfield Church Fete, 2.30pm British Energy Morecambe Band + Langley Band (Birmingham) - Grand Concert - The Dome, Morecambe, 7.30pm Buckhaven & Methil Miners Brass Band - Dunfermline Gala Burbage Band - Parwich, 10am Chalgrove Band - Street Fayre - Upperton, 2pm Cirencester Band - Ashton Keynes School Fête, Wiltshire Cobham Band - Sutton Green Fete, near Guilford, 1.45pm Constantine Silver Band - Mabe Ladies Choir Fete - Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, 2pm Copthorne Silver Band - Copthorne Carnival, 2pm Coventry Festival Band - St. Christopher's School, Allesley, 1.30pm Croydon Brass Band - Croydon Carnival - Lloyd Park, Croydon CWA Brass - Castle Place, Belfast, 2pm Denton Brass - Garden Party - St Stephens Church, Audenshaw, 2pm Derwent Brass - Summer Fete - Quorndon, Derbyshire DUT Yorkshire Imperial (Rothwell) Band - The Bandstand, The Regent's Park, London, 12.30pm-2pm and 5.30pm-7pm Epsom and Ewell Silver Band - Music Fest, Nork Park Euphonium Recital - Charley Brighton - St Mary's Church, Church Street, Slough, 12pm. Free Ever Ready Band - Lochside Theatre, Castle Douglas, 7.30, Box Office 01556 504506 First City Brass - The Bandstand, St James's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Flevo Brass - "Eindexamen concert" - Muzisch Centrum, Emmeloord, Netherlands, 10am Hall Royd Band - St Walburga's Gala Hangleton Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 10am Hatfields of Colchester Band - Stanway Summer Fayre Hathersage Brass Band - Edensor Day, Edensor, Chatsworth Haworth Band - Addingham Fete, 2pm Hepworth Band - Brass and Voices with Honley Male Voice Choir and Gareth Small (principal trumpet Halle Orchestra) - Huddersfield Town Hall, 7.15pm. Tickets available from Kirklees information offices, Tel: 01484 223200 Hungerford Town Band - Fairfields Sheltered Housing BBQ, 2.30pm Jackfield Elcock Reisen Band - Claverly, Shropshire Lancashire Life Morecambe Band + Langley Band - Morecambe Platform, 7.30pm Letchworth Garden City Band - St Andrew's School Fair - Benslow Lane, Hitchin, 12.45pm Manchester Camerata Brass - Denbigh Town Hall, 7.30pm. Admission: £7 and £5 Menai Bridge Band Porthaethwy - Carnival - Menai Bridge, 1pm Muller Cleobury Mortimer Band - Oldfield Old People's Home, Ditton Priors, afternoon Muller Cleobury Mortimer Band - Ludlow Castle, evening ntl Skelmanthorpe Band + Doncaster Wheatsheaf Singers - Priory Place Methodist Church, Doncaster, 7.30pm. Tickets £5. Details: 01302-770007 Oldpark Silver Band - Wedderburn Park, Belfast, 2.30pm Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Stalmine Gala Portsmouth City Band - Portchester Gala, Portchester Castle Grounds Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Finchfield Church Concert Renfrew Burgh Band - Piazza, Renfrew St.Austell Town Band - Mevagissey Feast Day - Mevagissey, 2pm St Ronans Silver Band - Braw Lads' Gathering - Galashiels Standish Band - Chorley St Peters Procession Test Valley Brass - Barton Stacey Fete Tewit Youth Band - Grassington Festival - Town Square, Grassington, 2pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Market Square, Chesterfield, 12pm Tideswell Band - Tideswell Carnival Parades, 12.30pm, 7.15pm, 10pm Tintwistle Band - Tintwistle Gala Tylorstown Band - Aberdare Park, 2pm University of East London Concert Band - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm, 7.45pm Waltham St Lawrence Silver Band - School Fete - St. Nicolas School, Taplow Wantage Silver B Band - Kinston Bagpuize, 1pm Welwyn Garden City Band - Danegrove School Fete, East Barnet, 11am Wem Jubilee Band - Parade - Shrewsbury International Music Festival, 11am Williams Fairey Band - South Normanton Community Centre, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01909 509918 Wilton and District Youth Band - Salisbury Hospice Garden Party, Witherington Farm, Alderbury, 2pm Woodbridge Excelsior Band - Red Cross Fete - Abbey School, Woodbridge, 2pm-4pm Yorkshire Evening Post Band - Middleham Festival 30 June - 1 July ** cancelled - Gloucestershire Brass Band Association Entertainment Contest - Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham. Details: 01594-833899 World Brass Band Contest - Roda Hall, Kerkrade, Netherlands 30 June - 7 July 4th International Alpine Music Festival - Saas-Fee, Switzerland. University of Warwick Brass Band - Annual Tour - Isle of Wight

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