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All events are in the UK unless otherwise indicated  Please confirm details with the organisers. Events are occasionally changed at short notice or without notification. Previous events May 2008 Jun 2008 Jul-Sep 2008 Oct-Dec 2008 June 2008 24 May - 2 June Scottish Brass Band Week  1 June St Ronans Tattoo - Traquair House, Nr. Innerleithen, Scottish Borders 12pm-5pm. Tickets: £6 (adults); £4 (school children/OAPs) and £18 (two adults & two children)  West Lothian Festival of Brass Semi-Final 1 - Regal Theatre, Bathgate, 6.30pm. Featuring Unison Kinneil Silver Band, Scottish Co-op Band and Kirkintilloch Band.  Abbey Brass - Victoria Park Bandstand, Newbury Abbey Brass Jedforest - Open rehearsal - Band Hall, Jedforest, 6pm  Aldbourne Band - Pond Concert - Aldbourne Square, Aldbourne, 7.15pm Amersham Band - Memorial Gardens, Old Amersham, 2.30pm Arrow Valley Brass - Stratford Upon Avon Bandstand, 2pm Bandstand Concert - Lister Park, Bradford, 2pm Barton Town Band - Freemason's Charity Fun Day - Market Rasen Race Course Bath Spa Band - John Coles Park, Chippenham, 3pm Bedworth Brass - Jephson Gardens, Leamington, 3pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Wollaton Park Nottingham, 1.45pm Betteshanger Brass Band - Bandstand, Canterbury, 2pm Billingham Silver Band - Albert Park, Middlesbrough Bournemouth Concert Brass - Regent, Centre, Christchurch, 7.30pm Boxted Methodist Silver Band - Band Service - Boxted Methodist Church, 2.30pm Breckland Brass Band - Hockwold Country Fair Cinderford Band - Rising Sun, Moseley Green, Parkend, 7pm City of Southampton (Albion) Band - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth Clevedon Brass Band - Grove Park, Weston Super Mare Coppull and Standish Band - Walking Day - Aspull Methodist Church, Aspull Cottenham Brass Band - Picnic-in-the-Park - Jesus Green, Cambridge, 1.30pm Crystal Palace Band - Greenwich Park Bandstand Eastbourne Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Eccleston Brass Band - Orrell, 2pm Ellenbrook & Boothstown Band - Mayor's Parade - Eccles, 10am Fulbourn & Teversham Royal British Legion Brass Band - Jesus Green, Cambridge Gloucester Brass - Highnam, 2pm Gosport Silver Band - Romsey Bandstand, Romsey, 3pm Great Horwood Silver Band - A.V.D.C. Perfect Village Sunday - Cheddington Guernsey Concert Brass - Candie Gardens, 3pm Hall Royd Brass Band - Roberts Park, Saltaire Haslingden & Helmshore Band - Parade - St James' Church, Haslingden Hilgay Silver Band - Beachamwell, 12.15pm Ifton Band - British Legion Service - Kinnerley Ipswich Hospital Band - Brettenham School open day, 1pm Lincoln Beevor Band - Cedric Ford Pavilion, Newark Showground. Longridge Brass Band - Civic Sunday - Longridge Meltham and Meltham Mills Band - Filey Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead Moray Concert Brass - Moray Motorfun - Cooper Park Morecambe Brass Ensemble - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Newport Borough Brass - Waunfawr Park Bandstand, Cross Keys Newport Borough Brass Band - Waunfawr Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Oakdale Silver Band - Bargoed Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Phoenix Brass Band - Church Fete - The Vicarage, Lambourn, 2.30pm Potter Bar Town Band - Open Day - Hatfield House, 1.30pm Poulton-le-Fylde Brass Band - Botanic Gardens, Southport RAF St Athan Vol Band - Morgan Jones Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Reading Spring Gardens Brass Band - Forbury Bandstand, Reading, 3pm Renfrew Burgh Band - Renfrew Gala Day Royston Town Band - Picnic in the park, Jesus Green Cambridge Sevenoaks & Tonbridge Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Shrewton Silver Band - Royal British Legion March - Trowbridge Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Slaithwaite Band - Holmside Gardens, Holmfirth, 1pm South Beds Concert Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm St Austell Band - Newquay Civic Parade, 2pm St Gennys Silver Band - Songs of Praise, Tremayne Chapel, 7.00pm St Keverne Brass Band - Indian Queens' Pit Stannary Brass Band - The Garden House, Buckland Monachorum, 2pm Stiperstones Brass - Vintage Rally, West Midland Showground, 2pm Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Vivery Park, Taunton, 3pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Sewerby Hall, Bridlington Tottington Public Band - Walking Day - Rowlands Road Methodist, 1.50pm United CO-OP 2000 Brass Band - Nantwich Waterbeach Brass - Cherry Hinton Hall : Sun. 1 Jun. Cherry Hinton Hall on behalf of Cambridge City Council, 1430 for 1500 Watership Brass Band - Forbury Gardens, Reading Watford Band - King George's Park, Bushey, 2.00pm Winchcombe Concert Brass - Priory Park Bandstand, Malvern, 2.30pm Woodhouse Prize Band - Chatsworth Gardens, 2pm York Railway Institute Golden Rail Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm 2 June Carharrack & St. Day Silver Band - St Day Feast Cowes Concert Band- St John's Church, Newport, 8pm. Admission is free, with a retiring collection in aid of church and band funds. Douglas Town Band - Promenade Church, 8pm Leyburn Band - Swaledale Festival - St Matthew's Church, Leyburn, 8pm 3 June Cholsey Silver Band - Scout Hall, Chinnor, 8pm Reeth Brass Band - Swaledale Festival - St Andrews Church, Grinton, 8pm 4 June Cockerton Prize Silver Band - Salvation Army Concert - Crook, 8pm Mayfield Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm Staffordshire Band - Prince of Wales Theatre, Cannock 5 June Blackburn & Darwen Band - St Peter's Church Greenalls Brass Band - Widnes St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Uckfield Concert Brass - South of England Show - Ardingly Showground, Sussex Watford Band - Watford Blind Centre, 7.30pm 6-8 June  14th French Open Brass Band Championships - City of Kings, Amboise, Loire, France. Association des Amis du Brass Band d'Amboise - ecolemusique.amboise@wanadoo.fr 6 June Alder Valley Brass - The Oaks - Epsom Racecourse Bedworth Brass - Civic Hall, Bedworth, 7.30pm Cheltenham Silver Band - Songs of Praise - Guiting Power, 5pm Killamarsh Silver Band - St Johns Church, Wales, 7.45pm Lincoln Beevor Band - lankney Church, 7.30pm Ocean Brass - Bishops Waltham Parc & Dare Band + Welsh National Opera Company - Carbon 12 - Donald Gordon Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre Pleasley Colliery Welfare Brass Band - Sounding Brass and Voices - Pleasley Church, 7.30pm Riviera Concert Brass - D-Day Service - Slipway Beacon, Quay, Torquay, 11am Sidmouth Town Band - A Gala Evening with Queen Victoria - Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth, 7.30pm Watchet Town Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm Woodhouse Prize Band - Woodhouse Vilage Cross, 7.30pm 7 June A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band - Hearts of Oak Club Walk - Fownhope Alder Valley Brass - The Derby - Epsom Racecourse Almac Bisley Brass Band - Brookwood School Fete Backworth Colliery Band - Backworth Village Gala Bedale Brass Band - Bedale Church Bedford Progress Brass - Hills Lower School Summer Fete Black Dyke Band - The Pavilion, Westover Road, Bournemouth, BH1 2BX, 7.30pm. Tickets £14, £15 & £17 available from BIC/Pavilion Box Office 0870 111 3000 Bocking Concert Brass - Braintree Carnival - Braintree Museum, Manor Street, Braintree, 1.30pm Chalford Band - Forest Green Football Club Chalgrove Band - Thame School Fete - Thame Chichester City Band - Slindon Fete, 2pm City of Chester Training Band - Aldford Village fete, 12.30pm Coalburn Silver Band - Stonehouse Gala Day, 11.15am Cold Ash Brass - Speen Fete Crich Brass - Crich Wesleyan Chapel Croy Silver Band - Condorrat Gala Day Crystal Palace Band - St John's School, Leatherhead, 7.30pm Daventry Brass - Courteenhall Fete, 2pm Dodworth Colliery Band - Rotary Club Garden Party - The Grove, Dodworth Durnovaria Silver Band - Thomas Hardy Wreath Laying - Dorchester, 5.15pm East Yorkshire Motor Services Brass Band - Cottingham Civic Hall, 7.30pm Ellesmere Port Silver Band - Mayfields Methodist Home, Ellesmere Port, 1.45pm Enfield Brass Band - Capel Manor Open Day, 12pm Fakenham Town Band - Fete - Rectory Gardens, Narborough, 2pm Farnworth & Walkden Band - Trinity Church, Farnworth Forest of Dean Brass - Forest Theatre, Coleford, 7.30pm Frome Town Youth Band - Rook Lane Chapel, 3pm Garforth Brass - Garforth Community College, 7.30pm Godalming Band - Church Crookham Fete Grange Moor Brass Band - St Peter's Church, Birstall, 7.30pm Gretton Silver Band - Braybrook Fete, 2pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - City Hall, Hull Hatherleigh Silver Band - Ruby Run - Hatherleigh, Haverhill Silver Band - Great Wratting Fete Ibstock Brick Brass - Ibstock Palace, 7.30pm Ipswich and Norwich co op Band - Brass on the grass - Elmswell, 6.30pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Offton Church Fete, 2.30pm KM Medway Band - Biggin Hill Air Show Laganvale (Metal Technology) Band - Cockle Row, Groomsport 3pm Leyburn Band - Holy Trinity Church, Startforth Lympstone Band - Hospiscare Exeter Charity Event - Broadclyst, Exeter, 11.30am Maltby Miners' Welfare Band - Braithwell Gala Market Rasen (RPC) Band - East Kirby Martlesham Brass Intermediate Band - St Mary's School Fayre, 11am Martlesham Brass Preliminary Band - Tuddenham Church Fete, 2pm Melbourne Town Band - Newlands House Fete, Nethersea, 1.45pm Mid Sussex Brass Band - Burgess Hill Town Day Moulton 77 Brass Band - Fete - Christchurch, Wboro Rd, Northampton Mount Charles Band - Grampound Village Hall, 7.30pm Muker Silver Band - Arkengarthdale Sports, 12.30pm Nailsworth Silver Band - Regency Retirement Home, Stonehouse, 2pm New Forest Brass Band - D-Day service - Exbury Newhall Band - Riversley Park, Nuneaton, 1pm North Fylde Brass Band - Poulton Gala Rose Queen Crowning Phoenix Brass Band - Fete - Merlin Court, Marlborough, 2pm Portsmouth City Training Band - Waterside URC, Bath Rd, Emsworth, 10.30am Poulton-le-Fylde Brass Band - Poulton Gala Radcliffe Band - Radcliffe Carnival, 2pm Renfrew Burgh Band - Barshaw Gala Day Riviera Concert Brass + Ynysowen Male Voice Choir - Central Church, Torquay, 7.30pm Rockingham Band - Barnborough Village Fete Rothwell Temperance Band - Morley Town Hall, Morley, 7pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Wolverhampton Steam Festival Seindorf Beaumaris Band - Cyngerdd yn Mona, 7.30pm Sharpness & District Silver Band - 2-4pm Berkeley Hospital Shrewton Silver Band - Guildhall, Salisbury, 11.30am Stannary Brass Band - Dartmouth Flavel Centre, 7.30pm Stone Town Band - Stone Carnival, 12.30pm Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Christ Church, Tettenhall Sussex Brass - Winchelsea Hog Roast, 6.30pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Worksop College Quadrangle, 7.30pm Tiverton Town Band - Friendly Society Parade and Fete - Chawleigh Todmorden Community Band - Waterside Lodge Trentham Brass - Ash green fun day - Trentham Uckfield Concert Brass - South of England Show - Ardingly Showground, Sussex United Co-op Milnrow Band - Milnrow Carnival Wealden Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Wem Jubilee Band - Wem Sports & Social Club, 7pm Wetherby and District Silver Band - Bramham International Horse Trials Wingates Band - Cadogan Hall, London, 5pm Witney Town Band - Bladon Festival Worcester Concert Brass - Defford Fete, 2.30pm Worksop Miners Welfare Band - Ranskill Village Festival, 1.30pm Wotton & District Silver Band - Hillesley Fete, 2pm 8 June Kippax Entertainment Contest - Heat 2 (Barnsley Building Society Band + Harrogate Band + Old Silkstone Band) - Kippax Band Social Club, Mount Pleasant, Kippax, Leeds, LS25 7AT, 8pm Pontins Youth Brass Band Championships, Prestatyn Sands Holiday Centre, Central Beach, Barkby Avenue, Prestatyn, LL19 7LA. Information and schedules - Frank Hodges, 01942-703217 West Lothian Festival of Brass Semi-Final 2 - Regal Theatre, Bathgate, 6.30pm. Featuring Kingdom Brass Band, Newtongrange Silver Band and Whitburn Band 1st Old Boys Association Band - Ormeau Park, Belfast, 3pm Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Worcester Bandstand, 2.30pm Bacchus Wind Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Band Concert - Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, 2pm Bath Spa Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Bedford Town Concert Brass - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Bell Inn Brass Band - Gheluvelt Park Bandstand, Worcester, 2.30pm Black Dyke Band - Masterclass - Highcliffe Comprehensive School, Parkside, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 4QD, 9.30am-1.30pm. Prices: £16 and £11 (under 16s). Blackburn & Darwen Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe Blewbury Brass Band - Victoria Park, Newbury, 3pm Bostock Band - Ice Cream Farm, Great Budworth, 3pm Bournemouth Concert Brass - P&O Oceana E813, Southampton, 3pm Boxted Methodist Silver Band - St Mary's Church Hadleigh, 2.30pm Breckland Brass Band - Euston Rural Rides, 2pm Bude Metric Brass - British Heart Foundation Open Garden - "Southfields", Poundstock 2pm Ceramic Brass Band - River Dee Bandstand, Chester, 2pm Chalford Academy Band - Stratford Park, 2.30pm Christchurch & Highcliffe Brass Band - Clifftop Service - Barton Hymns, Barton, Dorset, 4.15pm Cinderford Band - Abbey Park, Evesham, 2.30pm Clacton-on-Sea Co-Operative Band - Princes Theatre, Clacton Town Hall, 8pm Cleobury Mortimer Concert Brass - Bromsgrove Bandstand Cockerton Prize Silver Band - South Park, Darlington, 11am Coleshill Town Band - Meriden Megaride Coppull and Standish Band - Walking Day - Hindley Methodist Church, Hindley Cottenham Brass Band - Histon Sports Day, 1pm Dereham Band - Waterloo Park, Norwich, 2.30pm Dunchurch Brass Band - Jephson Gardens, Leamington East Grinstead Concert Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm East Riding of Yorkshire Brass - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington, 2pm Eccleston Brass Band - Botanic Gardens Southport, 2.15pm Elland Silver Band - Dartmouth Park, Morley, 2.30pm Felling Band - Gibside Chapel, Rowlands Gill, 1pm Glossop Old Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Golborne Brass Band - Walking Day - Hindley, 3pm Grange Moor Brass Band - Gala - National Mining Museum, Wakefield Great Horwood Silver Band - A.V.D.C. Perfect Village Sunday - Quainton Great Western Youth Band - Rodborne Church Great Yarmouth Brass - Christchurch, Great Yarmouth, 2.30pm Greenalls Brass Band - Victoria Park, St Helens Greenalls Brass Band - Victoria Park, St Helens Grimethorpe Colliery Band - DeMontford Hall, Leicester Hall Royd Brass Band - Northcliffe (Rae) Gala, 2pm Holymoorside Band - Church Fete - Old Brampton, 2.30pm Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Band - St. Antonio's Parade - Woodborough Road, Nottingham Launceston Town Band - Brass on the Grass - Bude, Castle Grounds, 2.30 p.m. Lofthouse 2000 Brass Band - Burley Park, 2pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Mayors parade - Lyme Church Marsh Gibbon Silver Band - Grendon Underwood Fete, 2pm Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Victoria Park, Bath Morecambe Band - Carnforth Civic parade Mount Charles Band - Victoria Gardens, Truro, 2.30pm Newmarket Town Band - Picinc in the Park - Kennett Newstead Band - Agricultural Show, Broomfield College Old Hall Brass - Walking Day, St Peters Church, Hindley Otterbourne Brass - Otterbourne Village hall Pilling Band - Civic Sunday, Preesall, 10am Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass - Vale Park New Brighton, 2.30pm Ratby Co-operative Mid Band - RNLI - Devonshire Place, 78 London Rd, Leicester, 12pm Rushden Town Band - Riverside Park, Huntingdon, 2.30pm Shanklin Town Youth Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Shipston Town Band - Recreation Ground, Stratford upon Avon, 2.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Cliftonville Bandstand, 2.30pm St Breward Silver Band - RNLI Service - Port Isaac, 12pm Stannington Brass Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Church Fete - Limington, 1.45pm Stone Town Band - The Ampitheatre - Staffordshire, 2pm Tarleton Brass Band - Wrightington Walking Day Thornton Cleveleys Brass Band - Thornton Little Theatre, 8pm Tredegar Town Band - Bedwelty Park, Tredegar Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Maidenhead Carnival, 12pm Waterbeach Brass - Ramsey Abbey : Playing on Ramsey Abbey Green Watford Band - Riverside Park, St. Neots, 2.30pm Wetherby and District Silver Band - Bramham International Horse Trials Wingates Band - Cadogan Hall, London Woodbridge Excelsior Band - Woodbridge Regatta Wotton & District Silver Band - Chippenham Park, 3pm 9 June Denham Hendon Brass Band - Abbots Langley Carnival, 12pm Douglas Town Band - Promenade Church, 8pm KM Medway Concert Brass - Biggin Hill International Air Show, 10am Shirland WT Junior Band - Newton Village Hall, 7pm 10 June Douglas Town Band - Colonnade Suite, Villa Marina, 8pm Gosport Silver Band - Nicholson Gardens, Spring Lane, Gosport, 7pm Rushden Mission Band - Hall Park Bandstand, Rushden, 2pm Tintwistle Band - GMP Training School, Sedgley Park, Prestwich, 8.30pm 11 June Fairlop Brass Band - Partners In Brass 10 - Barnardo's Church, Tanners Lane, Barkingside, 7.30pm Leyburn Band - LVA bike ride start, Leyburn 12-14 June Ohio Brass Arts Festival. 12-15 June  Great American Brass Band Festival - Danville, Kentucky, USA. For more information contact GABBF, P.O. Box 429, Danville, KY 40423-0429, USA. Tel: +1 859-236-2361. 12 June Alverton Brass - Northallerton Town Hall, 7.30pm Blackburn & Darwen Band - St Peter's Church Clydebank Burgh Band - Lanimer Day Lanark, 6.30pm Farnham Brass Band - Gostrey Meadow, Farnham, 2pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - St George's Hall, Bradford King's Park Brass - King's Park Church, 7.30pm Lympstone Band - Cricket Match - St Peters School, Lympstone, 6.30pm Parc & Dare Band + Welsh National Opera Company - Carbon 12 - Donald Gordon Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm 13 June Bedford Town Band - Bedford Athletic Rugby Club, 6.45pm Camborne Town Band - Morgan Sports Car Annual Rally - Newquay Daventry Brass - Newbottle Manor, Nr Banbury, 7.30pm Dronfield Band - Coal Aston Village Hall, 7.30pm Mid Sussex Brass Band - Martletts Hall, Burgess Hill, 7.45pm Muker Silver Band - Sankey Centenary - Hawes Market Hall, 7.30pm Parc & Dare Band - The Planets - Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy Vernon Building Society Poynton Brass Band - Hazel Grove Baptist Church, 7.30pm Watchet RBL Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm 14-15 June Northern Region Brass Band Trust Weekend Instrumental Workshop - Ushaw College and Conference Centre, Durham City, 9.30am. Tutor Group: White River Brass. All meals will be provided and one nights accommodation. Details from Len Old, 0191 5816552, email enidlen@aol.com 14 June  Euro Brass Contest - De Lawei Concert Hall, Drachten, Netherlands. Entertainment contest with three sections (Championship, 1/2 and 3/4) See the website for further details. Open to brass bands from all countries. Invitation only, but invitations can be solicited by contacting eurobrass@silverhuys.nl before 15th February 2008 Mardsen March Contest - Marsden Band Room and the Riverhead Brewery, Marsden, 4pm. Entries, please contact Kath Coton on 07747 018406. Amesbury Town Band - West Lavington Church Fete, 2pm Amington Band - St. Giles Church Fete - Bit End Field, Whittington, Lichfield, 2pm Backworth Colliery Band - Northumberland Miner's Picnic Banovallum Brass Band Horncastle - Tower Gardens, Skegness, 2pm Barnsley Building Society Brass Band - Barnsley Mayors Parade, 2pm Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Ushaw College, 1pm Bedford Brass - Fete - Chiltern Avenue Green, Bedford Bell Inn Brass Band - Manor House Nursing Home, Cleobury Mortimer, 2pm Besses o'th' Barn Band - Sedburgh Festival Bilsdale Silver Band - Kirkby and Great Broughton Summer Fair, 2pm Bradford Grammar School Concert Band - Grassington Festival - The Square, Grassington, 10.30am. Free admission Bratton Silver Band - Wingfield Fete, Trowle House, 2pm Brighton & Hove City Brass - St Barts Church, Brighton British Airways Band - Shepperton Village Fayre, Middlesex, 11am Briton Ferry Band - Briton Ferry Community Centre, Briton Ferry, 7pm Bugle Silver Band - Trewithen Gardens, 1pm Burbage Band (Buxton) - Gala - Starkholmes, Matlock Carrbrook Brass - Manchester Cathedral Cawston Band - Cawston Church, 7.30pm Chalford Band - St Rose's School, 1pm City of Cardiff (Melingriffith) Brass Band - Mochyn Du Pub, 2pm City of Southampton (Albion) Band - Bandstand, Eastleigh Clackmannan District Brass Band - Menstrie Gala Coalburn Silver Band - Kirkmuirhill Gala Day, 10.30am Cobham Band - St Johns Church Fete, West Byfleet, 12pm Croft Silver Band - Stoney Stanton Carnival CSD Brass (Cambridge) - Horseheath Fete, 2pm Dalkeith & Monktonhall Brass Band - Prestonpans Gala Daventry Brass - Nether Heyford Fete, 1.45pm Dearham Brass Band - Aspatria Gala Denham Hendon Brass Band - Abbots Langley Carnival, 12pm Derwent Brass - Quarndon Fete, St Paul's Parich Church, 1pm Diggle Band + Peter Wakefield Singers - Oldham Coliseum Theatre, OL1 3SW, 7.30pm Downshire Brass - Royal Ulster Yacht Club, Bangor Eccleston Brass Band - Tarleton, 1.30pm Felling Band + Felling Male Voice Choir - Hall One, The Sage Gateshead, 7pm Fodens Richardson Band - Sandbach School, 7.30pm Foresters Friendly Society Brass - Earl Shilton School Summer Fair Frome Town Youth Band - Berkley Fete, 2pm Gosport Silver Band - St. Faiths Church Fete, Lee-on-Solent, 11am Gretton Silver Band - Braybrook Fete, 2pm Hade Edge Band - Centenary Concert - Huddersfield Town Hall, 7.30pm Kennet Vale Brass - Woodborough Garden Centre Killamarsh Silver Band - arnsley Mayor's Parade, 11am Launceston Town Band - Central Methodist Church, Launceston, 7.30 p.m. Leyland Band - Walmer Bridge, 7.30pm LGB Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Lofthouse 2000 Brass Band - Brassed Off - Yorkshire Mining Museum Long Melford Silver Band - Village Green, Long Melford Longridge Brass Band - Longridge Field Day Marlow Town Band - Marlow Festival Marske Brass Band - Great Ayton Village Fete, 1.30pm Martlesham Brass - Band Summer Fayre Meltham and Meltham Mills Band - Helme Church Garden Party Mid Sussex Brass Band - High Hurstwood Fete, 2pm Mole Valley Silver Band - Ashtead Village Day New Clarence Adoo Ensemble + Richard Martin (trumpet), Sue Blyth (vocal) + Castleford Songsters - Northern Highlights - The Salvation Army, Castleford, 7.15pm. In aid of the Clarence Adoo Trust. Tickets £7 and £5 from 01977 618647 Newland Concert Brass - Torphichen Gala Day Newport (Shropshire) Town Band - "Last night at the Proms" - High Offley Newport Borough Brass - Rotary Club Charity Event - Newport Norfolk Wherry Brass - Strumpshaw Steam Museum, 7.30pm North Fylde Brass Band - Singleton Cloggers Annual Festival - Poulton Square Old Hall Brass - St Peter's Church, Bryn, 7.30pm Parc & Dare Band - A Night at the Opera - Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy Penicuik Silver Band - North Kirk, Penicuik, 7.30pm Phoenix Brass Band - Village Fete - Shipton Bellinger, 2pm Phoenix WM Brass - Wesleyan Church, West Bromwich Pilling Band - Calder Vale Gala, 11am PolySteel Band - Chipping Sodbury Festival, Town Hall, Chipping Sodbury, 7.30pm Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass - St.Michaels Newton Church Fete, 12pm Portsmouth City Band - Portchester Gala Procession, 11am Raunds Temperance Band - Castle Theatre, Wellingborough, 7.30pm Rushden Mission Band - St Mary's Rectory Grounds, 2pm Rushden Town Band - Titchmarsh Fete, near Thrapston, Northants Saltash Town Band - Hospital Fete, Saltash, 2pm Sandhurst Silver Band - St George's Fete, 2pm Shepherd Group Brass Band - Starbeck Church, Harrogate Shirland WT Junior Band - Ripley Town Centre, 11am Stannary Brass Band - Buckland Monachorum Fair Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Garden Party - Over Stratton, 2.30pm Tarleton Brass Band - Tarleton Walking Day Templemore Band - Abbots Cross, 2pm Tewkesbury Town Training Band - St Catherine's Church Fete, Gloucester Thornton Cleveleys Brass Band - Thornton Cleveleys Gala, 11.30am Timperley Band - The Avenue Methodist Church, Sal Toddington Town Band - Sponsored Blow for Breast Cancer - Toddington Green, 9.30am Tredegar Town Band - Masons Hall, Tredegar Virtuosi GUS Band - Magic of the Musicals - Stantonbury Campus Theatre, Milton Keynes, 7.30pm, Tickets 01908 324422 Wadhurst Brass Band - Tidebrook Fete, 2pm Waterbeach Brass - Waterbeach Feast West Yorkshire Police Band - Mirfield Whitburn Band - Carluke Gala Day Whitwell Brass Band - Well Dressing Parade - Whitwell Wilsden Band + Eldwick & Gilstead Male Voice Choir - Heaton Church, 7.30pm Woodhouse Prize Band - St Lukes Garden Party, 1pm Wotton & District Silver Band - Kingswood Village Hall Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band - Spa Complex, South Bay, Scarborough 15 June Band of the Gloucestershire Constabulary - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm Bandstand Concert - Myrtle Park, Bingley, 2pm Banovallum Brass Band Horncastle - Petwood Hotel, Woodhall Spa, 2.30pm Barton Town Band - Burton-upon-Stather Arts Week - Burton recreation ground, 3pm Basingstoke Silver Band - Eastrop Park, Eastrop Way, Basingstoke, 3pm Bath Spa Training Band - Widcombe Rising, 1.30pm Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Ushaw College, 1pm Bedale Brass Band - North Yorks County Show Bedford Concert Brass - Abbey Gardens, Ramsey, 2.30pm Besses o'th' Barn Band - Radcliffe Civic Suite Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Rufford Park, 2pm till 4pm Betteshanger Brass Band - Pencester Gardens, Dover, 2.30pm Bideford Town Band - Emmanuel Church, Ilfracombe, 8pm Billingham Silver Band - Ropner Park, Stockton Bradford Youth Concert Band - Roberts Park, Saltaire British Airways Band - Rotary Club Family Day, Heathrow, 2pm Burbage Silver Band - Burbage Carnival Carharrack & St. Day Silver Band - Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, 2pm Ceramic Brass Band - Lyme Park, Cheshire, 2pm Cheltenham Silver Band - Abbey Park, Evesham, 2.30pm Christchurch & Highcliffe Brass Band - Pinewalk Bandstand, Lower Gardens, Bournemouth, 7.30pm Cleobury Mortimer Concert Brass - Himley Hall, 5.30pm Coppull and Standish Band - Walking Day - Coppull Parish Church, Coppull Corby Silver Band - Lyveden New Beild, 2pm Downshire Brass - Belfast Castle, 2pm Driffield Silver Band - Elim Lodge Gardens, Hornsea, 2pm Drighlington Brass Band - Canal Gardens, Leeds, 2.30pm Dunston Silver Band - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Elland Silver Band - Boarshurst Band Club, Greenfield, 8pm Emley Brass Band - Greenhead Park, Huddersfield Enfield Brass Band - Bayford Open Gardens - Bayford, Near Hertford, 2pm Fleckney Silver Band - Knaptoft Church Ruins, 3pm Godalming Band - Centenary Celebrations - Secretts Farm Shop Great Horwood Silver Band - Thornton Fete Gretton Silver Band - Launde Abbey, 3pm Gweek Silver Band - Carolaire - Gweek Village Green, 7.30pm Harrogate Band - Recreation Ground, Pateley Bridge, 3pm Hathern Band - Grace Dieu 75th Anniversary Reunion, 2pm Heathfield Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Highley Colliery Band - Dudmaston Hall, Quatt Nr Bridgnorth Highley Colliery Band - Dudmaston Hall, Quatt, Nr Bridgnorth Holbeach Town Band - Holbeach Vintage Rally, 1pm Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Band - Hasland Gala Day - Eastwood Park, Hasland. Chesterfield, 12pm Jackfield Band - Musical Picnic - Lady Forester's Centre - Broseley Kippax Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Kippax Band - Wetherby Bandstand, 2.30pm Leyland Band - St. Mary's Church, Leyland, 7.30pm Lydbrook Band - Ross Bandstand, 2.30pm Malvern Chase Brass Band - Priory Park, Malvern, 2.30pm Markham & District Colliery - Bargoed Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Marshfield Band - Parade Gardens, Bath Maxilead Metals Tyldesley Band - Formby Hall, Atherton, 7.30pm Maxilead Metals Tyldesley Band - St Michael's, Swinley, 2pm Meltham and Meltham Mills Band - Greenhead Park Mossley Band - Canon Burrows, 1pm Mount Charles Youth Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Murton Colliery Band - South Shields Amphitheatre, 2pm Nailsworth Silver Band - Box open gardens, 3pm New Forest Brass Band - Lymington Bandstand, 3pm Newstead Band - Friends Open Day, Nottingham University Northallerton Silver Band - Saltburn Bandstand, 2.30pm Oakdale Silver Band - Waunfawr Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Oxted Band - Pantiles Bandstand, Tunbridge Wells, 12pm Phoenix Brass Band - Songs of Praise Service - Crofton Beam Engine Site Nr. Great Bedwyn, 5.45pm Ramsey Town Band - Mooragh Park, 3pm RBL Little Common Concert Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Green, 3pm Roberts Bakery Band - Winsford Civic Hall, 7.30pm Rogerstone Band - Morgan Jones Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Sandhurst Silver Band - Sandhurst Memorial Park, 2pm Shipston Town Band - Abbey Field, Kenilworth, 2.30pm Shirland WT Band - Crossley Park, Ripley Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Soham Comrades Brass Band - Riverside Park, St Neots, 2.30pm South Milford Brass - Selby Funday Swindon Brass - Town Gardens, Swindon, 3pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Castle Howard Courtyard Syston Band - Melton Park Taverham Band - Blundeston Church, 2pm Tewkesbury Town Band - Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, 7.30pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Larwood Community Centre, Worksop, 2pm Thurlstone Band - Well Dressing - Bridge End, Penistone, 2pm Tintwistle Band - Vernon Park, Stockport, 2pm Towcester Studio Band - Bandstand, Leighton Buzzard Towcester Studio Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Wakefield Metropolitan Band - Bishops Palace Lawn, Howden Park, Goole, 2pm Waterbeach Brass - Wimpole Fete Watford Band - Shenley, 3pm Wrentham Band - St Margarets Church, Lowestoft, 7.30pm 16 June Bo'ness & Carriden Band - Grangemouth Gala Day Douglas Town Band - Promenade Church, 8pm RMT Easington Colliery Band - Easington Methodist Churchm, 7pm 17 June Christchurch & Highcliffe Brass Band - Pinewalk Bandstand, Lower Gardens, Bournemouth, 7.30pm Denham Hendon Brass Band - Austenmead Retirement Home, Chalfont St Peter, 3pm Renfrew Burgh Band - The Mortgage Shop - Renfrew 18 June Kirkintilloch Band + Kirkintilloch Ladies' Choir - St.Mary's Church Hall, Kirkintilloch North Fylde Brass Band - North Shore Methodist Church Dickson Road Blackpool, 7.30pm Templemore Band - Victoria Park, Belfast, 7.30pm 19-22 June  Gettysburg Brass Band Festival - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA 19 June 1st Old Boys Association Band - Island Theatre, Lisburn, 7.30pm Barnsley Metropolitan Band - Mayoress At Home - Town Hall, 3.00 pm Bo'ness & Carriden Band - Linlithgow Marches Croy Silver Band - Kilsyth Civic Wee Egremont Town Band - Beckermet Church, 7.30pm Farnham Brass Band - Churt Fete, 2pm Freckleton Brass Band - Coach and Horses, Freckleton, 8pm Parc & Dare Band + Welsh National Opera Company - Carbon 12 - Birmingham Hippodrome St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Garden Party - Chiselborough, 7.30pm Strata Brass - St Margarets Church, Swinton, 7:30pm 20 June Amersham Band - Hyde Heath Beer Festival Great Horwood Silver Band - Stowe School Gweek Silver Band - Bale Shoot - Zelah Farm, Gweek, 6.30pm Hyde Band - Pinewalk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 7pm Moray Concert Brass - Portsoy Boat Festival Newport (Shropshire) Town Band - Old Tyme Market - Newport Thornton Cleveleys Brass Band - Singleton Church, 7.30pm Thundersley Brass Band - Runnymede Hall. 21 June Grand Celebration of Brass Bands, Ushers Ferry Historic Village, Cedar Rapids, Iowa NABBC Conductors' Competition Final - with the Virtuosi GUS Band 84th West of England Bandsmen's Festival, Molinnis Park, Bugle - Six sections, including Youth. Deportment is judged while bands march through the village. The contest is held on a bandstand in the football ground and is followed by marches back through the village and a concert. "The world's only drive-in brass band contest!" 1st Old Boys Association Band - Castleward Park, 1pm A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band - Rising Sun, Moseley Green Abbey Brass Training Band - Wootton School Fete Amersham Band - Roald Dahl Open Day - Gipsy House, Great Missenden Amesbury Town Band - Fete - Old Bakery, Figheldean, 2pm Ampthill Town Band - Templefield School, Flitwick Arrow Valley Brass - Hanbury Fete, 2pm Ashover Brass Band - Tansley Fayre Barton Town Band - St Lawrence's Church, Scunthorpe, 7.30pm Bath Spa Training Band - Southstoke Church Fete, Brantwood, 2pm Bedford Progress Brass - Ravensden Church Fete, 2pm Besses o'th' Barn Band - Lanercost, Near Carlisle, 7.30pm Betteshanger Brass Band - Godmersham, 1pm Bletchington Silver Band - Islip Village Fete Bostock Band - Party by the Lake - Pickmere Bude Town Band - Stratton Hospital Fete, 2pm Cadishead Band - Appleton Thorn City of Cambridge Brass Band - Garden Show - bbots Ripton Hall, 10.30am City of Cardiff (Melingriffith) Brass Band - George Thomas Hospice Fete - Whitchurch, 1.30pm City of Southampton (Albion) Band - Carnival - West End Clackmannan District Brass Band - Grangemouth Gala Coalburn Silver Band - Armadale Gala Day, 12pm Coleshill Town Band - Coleshill Parish Church Songs Of Praise - The Croft, Coleshill Copthorne Silver Band - Copthorne Carnival Cottenham Brass Band - Godmanchester Church Fete, 2pm Cromer and Sheringham Brass Band - Garden Fete - Felthorpe Croy Silver Band - Croy Club Douglas Town Band - MV Karina Dronfield Band - Queens Park, Chesterfield, 12pm Dunchurch Brass Band - Dunchurch Fete Dunston Silver Band - Ryton Methodist Church, 7.30pm East Yorkshire Motor Services Brass Band - United Reform Church, Cockermouth, 8pm Elland Silver Band - Last Night of The Proms Concert - National Mining Museum, 7pm Enfield Brass Band - Picnic Proms - The Nightingale Hospice, Capel Manor, 7.30pm Epsom and Ewell Silver Band - St Barnabas' Church, 7.30pm Fleckney Silver Band - East Farndon Fete Fodens Richardson Band - Civic Hall, Whitehaven, 7.30pm Freckleton Brass Band - Freckleton Club Day Garforth Brass - Leeds Law Courts Gloucester Brass - St. Phillips & St. James Hucclecote, 7.30pm Great Horwood Silver Band - Long Crendon School fete, 2pm Great Western Youth Band - St Philip's Church Gretton Silver Band - Kettering market, 11am Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Driffield Showground Haverhill Silver Band - St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds Hawk Green Band - Marple Carnival Haworth Band - St Peter's Church fete, Addingham, 2pm Hilgay Silver Band - Watlington, 7.30pm Holymoorside Band - Carnival - Grindleford, 2pm Ifton Band - Charter Festival - Ruyton XI Towns Ipswich and Norwich co op Band - Springwood High School, Kings Lynn, 7.30pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Theberton Fete Keith & District Silver Band - Archiestown Village Fete KM Medway Band - Prom in the Park, Chalk Church, 7pm Leyburn Band - St John's church, East Witton, 7.30pm LGB Brass - Kingston Fete - Kingston, near Lewes Lincoln Beevor Youth Band - Bassingham Schoo, 2pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Axminster Gardening Festival Malvern Chase Brass Band - Ashperton Church, 2.30pm Marlow Town Band - Marlow Regatta, Eton Martlesham Brass - St Michael's Summer Fete Martlesham Brass Preliminary Band - Hillside Primary Mid Sussex Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Mid Sussex Brass Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, 3pm Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Last Night of the Proms - Ammerdown Moray Concert Brass - Portsoy Boat Festival Morecambe Band - Silverdale Sports, 12pm Mossley Band - Marple Carnival, 1.30pm Newland Concert Brass - Armadale Gala Day Newtown Silver Band - Gregynog Festival Otley Brass Band - Harrogate UR Church, 7.30pm Otley Brass Band - Otley Carnival Patcham Silver Band - Windlesham school Pilling Band - Scorton Gala, 11.30am Poole Borough Band - Canford Cliffs Village Hall, Ravine Road, Canford Cliffs, Poole, 7.30pm Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass - Inland Waterways - Anderton, 12pm Poynton Youth Brass Band - Pott Shrigley Rose Queen Ratby Co-operative Mid Band - Ratby Church Garden Fete, 2pm Reading Spring Gardens Brass Band - Woodley Shopping Centre, 12pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Little Aston Golf Club Sharpness & District Silver Band - Croft Farm Water Park Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Upton Wood, Shepherdswell, 2pm Stamford Brass - Baston Feast - Baston Church Stannary Brass Band - St. Eustachius Church, Tavistock, 7.30pm Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Swanmead School, Ilminster, 12pm Stone Town Band - Eccleshall, Staffordshire, 11.30am Taverham Band - Horning Village Hall, 7.30pm Tiverton Town Band - Two Moors School Fete, Tiverton Toddington Town Band - St George's Fete - Toddington Green Todmorden Community Band - Todmorden Agricultural Show - Todmorden Park Towcester Studio Band - Towcester Music Festival, 8.30pm Tredegar Town Band - Bedwelty Park, Tredegar United Co-op Milnrow Band - Milnrow Cricket Club Wardle Anderson Brass - BBQ, Wine & Brass - St Andrew's Church, Dearnley Watchet RBL Band - Nether Stowey Ladies Walk, 3pm Watchet Town Band - Bossington Lane, Porlock Watford Band - Hatfield House, 11am Wellington (Telford) Brass Band - St Georges Church, 7.30pm Whitburn Band - Forth Gala Day Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band - St Mary's Church, Bagwell Lane, Winchfield 22-28 June ITEC 2008 - International Tuba Euphonium Association Conference, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 22 June ICCB Battle of the Bands - Ireland Colliery Band and Staveley Town Council Entertainments Contest - Speedwell Rooms, Inkersall Road, Staveley, Chesterfield, 11am. West Lothian Festival of Brass Grand Final - Regal Theatre, Bathgate, 6.30pm. Alcester Victoria Silver Band - St. Nicholas Park, Warwick, 2.00pm Ashbourne Town Band - Parwich open gardens, 2.30pm Avonbank Band - Bandstand - Evesham Park, 2.30pm Bandstand Concert - Lister Park, Bradford, 2pm Barnsley Building Society Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Basingstoke Silver Band - Victoria Park, Park Way, Newbury, Berkshire, 3pm Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Ropner Park, Stockton, 2pm Bedale Brass Band - Open Gardens - Kirklington Bedford Town Band - Abington Park, Northhampton, 2pm Bedworth Brass - Gala - St Paul's Church, Stockingford, Nuneaton, 2pm Bell Inn Brass Band - Nightingale Nurses Fete, Cleobury Mortimer, 2pm Blackpool Brass - Wesham Mayoral March Bostock Band - Anderton River Boat Festival Carrbrook Brass - Stalybridge Carnival, 12pm Cawston Band - The Forum, 2pm Christchurch & Highcliffe Brass Band - Bandstand, The Quay, Christchurch, Dorset, 2.45pm City of Exeter Railway Band - Relay for life - Tedburn St Mary, 10am City of Wolverhampton Brass Band - West Park, Wolverhampton Clackmannan District Brass Band - Highland Show Coppull and Standish Band - Walking Day - Standish Methodist Church, Standish Denham Hendon Brass Band - Austenmead Retirement Home, Chalfont St Peter, 3pm Downton Band - Lymington Bandstand, 2pm Dundee Instrumental Band - Magdalen Green, Dundee Eccleston Brass Band - Eccelston, 2pm Ellenbrook & Boothstown Band - Ellenbrook Primary School, 1pm Fakenham Town Band - Fete - Bawdeswell Recreation Ground, 12.30pm Fakenham Town Band - Snettisham Memorial Hall, 7pm Farnworth & Walkden Band - Church of the Good Shepherd Felling Band - Gibside Chapel, Rowlands Gill, 1pm Fleckney Silver Band - Great Glen fete, 12pm Frome Town Youth Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 12pm Grimsdyke Brass - Elliott Hall, 7.30pm Hade Edge Band - Holmfirth Cricket Club, 2pm Hathern Band - Grace Dieu Prize Day, 2.30pm Highley Colliery Band - Stevens Park, Quarry Bank, Stourbridge Ipswich Hospital Band - Desert Rats Re-union - High Ash, Thetford Kippax Band - Kippax Carnival LGB Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Lingfield Silver Band - Horsham Park Bandstand Lofthouse 2000 Brass Band - Howden Minster, 2pm Market Rasen (RPC) Band - Mayors Civic Parade, Louth, 10.30am Markham Main Colliery Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, 2pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington, 2pm Marshfield Band - Coaley Martlesham Brass - Norwood, 2.30pm Mossley Band - Cholmondeley Gardens, 2pm Muker Silver Band - Hunton, 3pm Murton Colliery Band - Horden Welfare Park Nailsworth Silver Band - Stratford Park Bandstand, 2.30pm Newstead Band - Newstead Abbey Lawn North Fylde Brass Band - Singleton Gala, 2pm Oldham (Lees) Band - Navigation Inn, 1.30pm Phoenix WM Brass - Harbourne Carnival Pilling Band - Pilling Patronal Festival, 10.30am Ratby Co-operative Band - Braunstone Park, Leicester, 12.30pm Ratby Co-operative Mid Band - Hollycroft Park, Hinckley, 2.30pm Royston Town Band - Pink Ribbon Run, Royston, 10am Rushden Mission Band - Garden Party - Cransley Village, 2.30pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Shirland WT Band - Three Stags Heads, 7.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm St Breward Silver Band - Killacourt, Newquay, 2pm St Gennys Silver Band - Bude Bandstand, 2.30pm St Sebastian Wokingham Band - Mayor's Parade - Wokingham, 2.30pm Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Bandstand Concert, Bridgwater, 2pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Eden Camp Tewkesbury Town Band - Priory Park Bandstand, Malvern, 2.30pm Tintwistle Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Tredegar Town Band - Songs of Praise - Around Tredegar Town Clock Wadhurst Brass Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Wakefield Metropolitan Band - Golden Acre Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Waltham St. Lawrence Village Fete, 2pm West Wycombe Brass Band - Lacey Green Strawberry Tea, 3pm Wingates Band - Lowther Pavilion, Lytham St Annes 23 June Bideford Town Band - Bideford Quay, 7.30pm Douglas Town Band - Promenade Church, 8pm Mole Valley Silver Band - Bookham Barn Hall. Woodhouse Prize Band - Abbeydale Cricket Ground, 7pm 24 June Bath Spa Band - Carreswood Centre, Bath, 7.30pm Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Botanical Gardens, Durham, 7pm Bedford Brass - Kempston West Methodist Church, 2.30pm Bude Town Band - Morwenstow Festival Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 8pm 25 June LGB Brass - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm Stone Town Band - 80th Anniversary Show - Fulford, 6pm 26 June Douglas Town Band - Promenade Church, 8pm Farnham Brass Band - Farnham Carnival, 4.15pm King's Park Brass - Brass At The Fest - Hyndland Parish Church, 8pm Newport Borough Brass - Pensioners Concert - New Inn Otley Brass Band - Otley Town Cycle Race, 6pm Parc & Dare Band + Welsh National Opera Company - Carbon 12 - Rhondda Fach Sports Centre, Tylorstown Phoenix Brass Band - Garden Fete - BUPA The Donnington Nursing Home, Newbury, 2pm Poyntzpass Silver Band - Poyntzpass RBL Hall. St Austell Band - Biscovey School Proms St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band - Church Stretton School, Shrewsbury Road, Church Stretton 27 June Boxted Methodist Silver Band - St Peters, North Hill, Colchester, 10am Chichester City Band - St Paul's, Chichester Eccleston Brass Band - Emmanuel Church, Preston, 7.45pm Flixton Band - Peasholme Park, Scarborough Harwich Royal British Legion Brass Band - St Nicholas Church, Harwich, 7.30pm Jaguar (Coventry) Band - Droitwich Spa Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Breadsall Memorial Hall, 7.30pm Moray Concert Brass - West End Primary School Poyntzpass Silver Band - Mountnorris parade Ratby Co-operative Band - Musik Fest - Groby Community College, Groby, 7.30pm Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Coldred Fete, 6pm Stockport Brass - St Georges Church, Stockport, 7.30pm Watchet Town Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band - St Nicholas' Church, High Bradfield 28-29 June Hebden Bridge Heritage Weekend 28 June Festival of Youth Brass Band Music - Durham City Centre. YHBBA Easingwold March And Deportment Contest - Market Square, Easingwold, North Yorkshire, 6pm onwards. Details: P. Sanderson, 01977 608214 - yhbba@aol.com English National Brass Band Championships - Guild Hall, Preston, 10.30am. 16 invited bands. Tickets from 01772 258858 A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band - Bandstand, Ross-on-Wye Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Salford Priors Fete Amington Band - Amington Fair - Amington Recreatonal Grounds Arrow Valley Brass - Feckenham Wake Ascot Brass + Phil Cobb (Trumpet/Cornet) - The Performing Arts Centre, Sir William Ramsay School, Rose Avenue Hazlemere, High Wycombe, HP15 7UB, 7.30pm Barnsley Metropolitan Band - Brass on the Grass - Gawber School Bedford Breakaway Brass - St Peters Church, Carlton Colville nr Lowestoft Bell Inn Brass Band - Areley Kings Church Fete, Stourport, 11am Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - St Peter's Church, Ravenshead, 7pm Betteshanger Brass Band - Brass on the Grass, Shepherdswell, 6pm Bideford Town Training Band - Surestart Centre, Bideford, 2.30pm Bletchington Silver Band - Bloxham Steam Rally Bo'ness & Carriden Band - Fair E'en Bratton Silver Band - Bratton Church Fete, Bratton Church Institute Brighton & Hove City Brass - Henfield Church Fete, Henfield, 2pm Burbage Band (Buxton) - Oddfellows Parade - Parwich, Near Ashbourne, 9.45am Chalgrove Band - Brightwell Fete - Brightwell Baldwin Cheltenham Silver Band - Montpellier Park, Cheltenham, 2pm Cinderford Band - Wesley Hall, Cinderford, 7.30pm City Of Birmingham Brass Band - Bournville Village Festival - Cadbury's Chocolate Factory Grounds City of Cardiff (Melingriffith) Training Band - Cilfynydd Primary School Summer Fete, 2pm City of Exeter Railway Band - Fete - St Davids Church, Exeter, 12pm Clarence Adoo Brass Band - The Salvation Army, 1203 Bourges Boulevard, Peterborough, PE1 2AU, 7pm. Raising funds for the Clarence Adoo Trust. Clitheroe Town Band - Salisbury Rose Queen Parade Coalburn Silver Band - Douglas Gala Day, 10.30am Cold Ash Brass - Fete - St Marks School, Cold Ash Corsham Band - Melksham Conservative Club Cottenham Brass Band - Offord Church Fete, 2pm Crystal Palace B Band - Sanderstead Annual Show Dearham Brass Band - Cockermouth United Reformed Church, 8pm Dearham Brass Band - Wigton Carnival, 1pm Diggle Band - Uppermill Civic Hall Downton Band - St Laurence's Church Fete - Downton Dronfield Band - Market Place, Mansfield, 12pm Dunchurch Training Brass Band - Yelvertoft Church Fete East Yorkshire Motor Services Brass Band - Willersley House Methodist Home Open Day, Willerby, 2pm Eccleston Brass Band - Chorley, 2.30pm Egremont Town Band - Garden Party - Beckermet, 2pm Fakenham Town Band - Fete - Sparham, 2.45pm Fleckney Silver Band - Fleckney Carnival Fulbourn & Teversham Royal British Legion Brass Band - Open Day - Waterbeach Barracks Garforth Jubliee Brass Band - Ninelands Primary School, 7.30pm Great Yarmouth Brass + St. Cecelia Choir - St. Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth, 7.30pm Greenalls Brass Band - Herbert St. Sutton Gretton Silver Band - Seaton Village Fete, 2pm Hade Edge Band - Scholes School Gala Hangleton Brass Band - Hove Park School Hangleton Brass Band - St Helen's Green, Hangleton Hatherleigh Silver Band - Country Fair, Hatherleigh Train Station Hebden Bridge Band + Philip McCann - Hebden Bridge Picture House Holymoorside Band - Carnival - Parwich, 6pm Hook Norton Brass Band - Bloxham Steam Rally Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Band - Summer Fete, Barlboroug, 2pm Jackfield Band - Claverley Killamarsh Silver Band - Whittington Gala, 12.15pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Summer Fair, Old Vicarage School, 11 Church Lane, Darley Abbey, 10.30am Longridge Brass Band - St Peter's Guild / Hurst Green Marshfield Band - Marshfield Church Fete Maxilead Metals Tyldesley Band - Tyldesley Rugby Club Murley Silver Band - Omagh Band Festival - Strule Arts Centre, Omagh Newhall Band - Festival of Leisure - Maurice Lea Park Bandstand, Gresley, 3pm Norfolk Wherry Brass - St Margaret's Church, Sea Palling, 7.30pm Pemberton Old Band - Croft Church, Warrington, 7.30pm Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass - Church Fete - St Bridgets, West Kirby, 1.45pm Ratby Co-operative Band - Musik Fest - Groby Community College, Groby, 7.30pm Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Chislet Country Fair, 1pm South Milford Brass + Barlby Foottappers Band - Riccall Regen Centre, 7.30pm St Breward Silver Band - Liskeard Carnival St Pinnock Band - Doorstep Green, St Neot Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Hospital Fete - St Peters & St Pauls Church, South Petherton, 2pm Stone Town Band - Alleynes School, Stone, 1pm Sussex Band of the RBL - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Swindon Brass - Ampney Crucis fete, 1pm Tarleton Brass Band - Rose Queen - Tarleton Tewkesbury Town Training Band - Churchdown Tiverton Town Band - Pinhoe School Association Fete Totnes Band - Broadhempston Fete, 2pm Wadhurst Brass Band - Sevenoaks Bandstand, 2.30pm Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Woodley Shopping Centre, 12pm Waterbeach Brass - St. Peters, Horningsea Wellington (Telford) Brass Band - Shifnal Carnival Whitwell Brass Band - Tower Gardens, Skegness, 2pm 29 June Hebden Bridge March and Hymn Tune Contest - Hebden Bridge, from 12pm. Details from Steve Gardner on 07813 110126. Ampthill Town Band - Songs of Praise - Ampthill Park, 12.30pm Ashbourne Town Band - Winster Carnival, 2pm Avonbank Band - Shipston Band Concert - Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, 2pm Basingstoke Silver Band - The Bandstand, Leigh Road Recreation Ground, Eastleigh, Hampshire, 2pm Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Blackhill Park, 2pm Bedford Concert Brass - Mill Meadows bandstand, Bedford, 3pm Bell Inn Brass Band - Priory Park Bandstand, Malvern, 2.30pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Brierley Park, 12.00pm till 2.30pm Bilsdale Silver Band - Albert Park, Middlebrough, 2pm Blackburn & Darwen Band - Shadsworth Carnival, Blackburn Blaenavon Town Band - Morgan Jones Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Bletchington Silver Band - Bloxham Steam Rally Bocking Concert Brass - Braintree Public Gardens, Bocking End, Braintree, 3pm Bo'ness & Carriden Band - Bo'ness Fair Brackley & District Band - Brackley Music Festival, 3pm Brighton & Hove City Brass - Royal Pavilion Lawns, Brighton, 3pm Bude Metric Brass - Bude Bandstand, 2.30pm Bude Town Band - Songs Of Praise - Budelight, 5pm Camborne Town Band - Victoria Gardens, Truro, 2.30pm Christchurch & Highcliffe Brass Band - Sway Manor, Sway, Hampshire Cinderford Band - Ross On Wye Bandstand, 2.30pm Clacton-on-Sea Co-Operative Band - Princes Theatre, Clacton Town Hall, 8pm Clevedon Brass Band - Clevedon Bandstand Crosskeys Silver Band - Waunfawr Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Dereham Band - RBL Parade - Dereham, 2.15pm Dereham Band - RBL Parade - Swaffham, 11am Dodworth Colliery Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Douglas Town Band - Mooragh Park, 3pm Eccleston Brass Band - St Laurence's, Chorley, 1.30pm Fakenham Town Band - Village Day - West Raynham, 1pm Farnworth & Walkden Band - St Peter & Pauls, Eccles Forest of Dean Brass - Lydney Festival - Bathurst Park Foresters Friendly Society Brass - Oakham Carnival Freckleton Brass Band + James Madison University Band + Sheona White (Horn), Stuart Lingard (Cornet) - Kirkham Grammar School Godalming Band - Bandstand, Godalming Golborne Brass Band - Haigh Hall, 2pm Great Horwood Silver Band - A.V.D.C. Perfect Village Sunday - Turweston Greenalls Brass Band - Walking Day - Rainford Gretton Silver Band - Gretton Flower Festival, 2pm Haslemere Town Band - Lodge Fête - Shannon Court , 2.30pm Haslingden & Helmshore Band - Parade - St Peter's Church, Haslingden Haverhill Silver Band - Old Independent Church, Haverhill Haworth Band - Broughton Hall Game Show Hook Norton Brass Band - Bloxham Steam Rally Laganvale (Metal Technology) Band - Ormeau Park, Belfast, 4.15pm Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - Dysart Park, Grantham Lympstone Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 11am and 3pm Malvern Hills Band - Abbey Riverside Gardens, Evesham, 2.30pm Market Rasen (RPC) Band - Dunholme Garden Fete, 12.00 noon Mayfield Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm and 8pm Mereside Brass Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Nailsworth Silver Band - Cheltenham Bandstand Newport Borough Brass - Greville Smythe Park - Bristol Newstead Band - 'Three Stags' PH, Darley Dale Old Hall Brass - Southport Little Theatre, Hoghton Road, Southport, 7.30pm Old Silkstone Band - Queggs School, Wakefield Pangbourne and District Silver Band - Forbury Gardens, Reading, 3pm Pemberton Old Band - Walking Day - St Mathews Church, Highfield, Wigan Phoenix Brass Band - Open Air Service - Andover Methodist Church, 6pm Poynton Youth Brass Band - Lyme Park Ramsey Town Band - Grove Museum Edwardian Day, 1pm Reeth Brass Band - Strawberry Fayre, Dalton, 3pm Rushden Mission Band - Kettering Bandstand Rushen Silver Band - Royal Hotel, Port Erin, 8pm Saltash Town Band - Forder Fete, 1.45pm Sanquhar Silver Band - Cumnock Music Festival Shipston Town Band + Avonbank Brass - Townsend Hall, Shipston-upon-Stour, 7.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Slaithwaite Band - Upperthong Gala Soham Comrades Brass Band - Cherry Tree Bandstand, Cherry Tree PH, Soham, 7pm Soham Comrades Brass Band - Ely Riverside, 2.30pm St Austell Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7pm Stacksteads Brass Band - Queens Park, Heywood, 2.15pm Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - West Park, Wolverhampton, 2.30pm Strata Brass - Brodsworth Hall, 3pm Sussex Brass - Alexandra Park - Hastings, 3pm Tarleton Brass Band - Bank Hall Concert, Bretherton Taverham Band - Mousehold Heath, 3pm Totnes Band - Victoria Park, Buckfastleigh, 2pm Tredegar Band - Bargoed Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Tredegar Town Band - Bargoed Park Welbeck Estates Brass Band - Crossley Park, Ripley Wem Jubilee Band - Dovaston, 7pm West Wycombe Brass Band - West Wycombe Park, 2.30pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Sutton Poyntz Whitburn Band + Northern Youth Brass Band - The Sage, Gateshead Witney Town Band - Open Air Church Service - Curbridge, 4pm Wolverton Town Band - Leighton Buzzard Bandstand, 3pm Wolverton Town Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Woodbridge Excelsior Band - Framlingham Festival 30 June Band Of The Island Of Jersey - Howard Davis Park, 7.30pm Bideford Town Band - The Green, Westward Ho!, 7.30pm Newstead Band - Community Centre, Newton, Derbys Previous events May 2008 Jun 2008 Jul-Sep 2008 Oct-Dec 2008 For other free sites to promote your events see LocalToday.co.uk Concert-Diary.com Ents24.com		General events Promoters, venues etc.

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