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Previous events May 2008 Jun 2008 Jul-Sep 2008 Oct-Dec 2008 July 2008 1 July Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm Poyntzpass Silver Band - 1st July celebrations - Poyntzpass Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 8pm 2 July Poole Borough Band - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth, 7pm Rushen Silver Band - St. Catherine's Church, Port Erin, 8pm Watford Band - Watford Girls' Grammar School, 7pm 3 July St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Verwood Concert Brass - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth 4-6 July Brighouse Festival of Brass 4 July Hilgay Silver Band - Denver School Ipswich Hospital Intermediate Band - St Peter's by the Waterfront James Shepherd Versatile Brass - Reunion Concert - Brighouse Festival of Brass - Central Methodist Church, Brighouse, 7.30pm Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - Stow Church, Stow, Lincolnshire. 7.30pm Skelmanthorpe Band - Hospital Opening - Sutton in Ashfield Strata Brass - Ivanhoe Centre, Conisborough, 7.30pm Verwood Concert Brass - Carlton Hotel, Bournemouth, 7.45pm Watchet Town Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm 5-20 July Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Celebrating every imaginable style of brass music from around the world. 5 July Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Holgate School Bestwood Black Diamonds Training Band - Harpenden House, 11.00am Brighouse and Rastrick Band - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Gala Theatre, Durham. Tickets £10 (£8 conc) Celebration Brass Ensemble + others - Concert 1000! - St. Mary's, Church Street. Slough, Berkshire Coleshill Town Band - Summer Fete - The Croft, Coleshill Derwent Brass - St Helens Church, Etwall, 7.30pm Great Horwood Silver Band - Great Horwood Church Fete Gretton Silver Band - Gretton School Haslemere Town Band - Village Fête - Singleton, 2pm Haverhill Silver Band - Thurston School, Thurston Hebden Bridge Band - Queens Park, Burnley, 3.30pm Ifton Band - Ifton Meadows Fun Day - St. Martins, Ifton Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Band - Winterton Agricultural Show Killamarsh Silver Band - Killamarsh Village Cultural Festival KM Medway Concert Brass - Gillingham Methodist Church Launceston Town Band - Proms in the Park - Castle Grounds, Bude, 7.30 p.m. Lindley Band - YMCA Selendine Nook Lingfield Silver Band - Horsham Carfax Bandstand Longridge Brass Band - Riversway, Preston Lydney Town Band - Lydney Yacht Club Regatta Maltby Miners' Welfare Band - North Wheatley Malvern Chase Brass Band - Welland Fete Market Rasen (RPC) Band - RAF Waddington Air Show Markham Main Colliery Band - Fishlake Festival, 11am Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Farmbrough Church Fete Moulton 77 Brass Band - Catholic Church Fete - Great Billing Newstead Band - Community Centre, Newton, Derbys North Fylde Brass Band - United Reform Church Cleveleys Annual Fete, 2pm Old Silkstone Band - Bolsterstone Gala, 2pm Oxted Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Patcham Silver Band - Patcham church fete Pemberton Old Band - Longton Bowling Club, 6pm Phoenix Brass - Bridport United Church, 7.30pm Phoenix Brass Band - Church Fete - Manor House, Great Bedwyn, 2pm Pilling Band - Eagland Hill Coffee Feast Portsmouth City Band - Bedhampton Summer Show, 1.45pm Ramsey Town Band - Lifeboat Day - Ramsey Ratby Co-operative Band - Co-op Music and Fireworks Concert - Groby Community College Playing fields Ratby Co-operative Mid Band - Thornton Carnival - Thornton Community Centre, 2pm Rode Hall Silver Band - Sandbach Heath, 7.30pm Rushden Mission Band - Newton Bromswold Village Fete, 2.30pm Sandhurst Silver Band - Centenary Concert - The Hexagon, Reading, 7.30pm Scissett Youth Band - Thurstonland Gala Shrewton Silver Band - Shrewton Primary School Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Goodnestone Fete, 1.30pm St Austell Band - Mevagissey Feast Day St Sebastian Wokingham Band - Family Fun Concert - Wellington College, Crowthorne, 6pm Stamford Brass - Corn Exchange, Stamford Stockport Salvation Army Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Stockport Silver Band - Fair - St Matthews Church, Edgeley Stone Town Band - Hyde Lea and Coppenhall Village Fete, 2pm Streets of Brass - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Durham SWT Woodfalls Band - A Night at the Opera - Salisbury Arts Centre, 7.30pm Taverham Band - Taverham Fayre, 10am Tewkesbury Town Band - Beechwood Residential Home Thornton Cleveleys Brass Band - Wrea Green Gala Thurcroft Welfare Band - Letwell Street Fayre, 1pm Timperley Band - Altrincham Festival Concert Tiverton Town Band - Ashburton Carnival Todmorden Community Band - Queen's Park, Burnley, 1.30pm Trimdon Concert Brass Band - Bishop Middleham Summer Fete United Co-op Band + James Madison University Brass Band - Brighouse Festival of Brass - Central Methodist Church, Brighouse, 7.30pm Verwood Concert Brass - The Hub, Verwood, 7.30pm Virtuosi GUS Band - Summer Prom Night - Holy Sepulchre, Northampton, 7.30pm. Tickets 0845 170 1124 Waterbeach Brass - Holy Trinity, Haddenham West Chiltington Silver Band - Centenary Bus Tour - West Chiltington, Steyning, Storrington, Pulborough, Wisborough Green, Billingshurst, Horsham, West Chiltington, 9am-5pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Briantspuddle Fete, 2pm Whitwell Brass Band - Brass on the Grass - Barlborough, 2pm Woodhouse Prize Band - St James, Woodhouse, 7.30pm Worcester Concert Brass - Bishampton Village Hall, 7pm Wrentham Band - Trinity Church, Lowestoft, 7.30pm 6-12 July First International Belgian Brass Academy - Tongeren, Belgium. A series of masterclasses and recitals, combined with more than 10 concerts. Top teachers from around the world will give their knowledge and time for young brass players during master classes. Each day there will be workshops given by musicians of the ensembles who will be performing at the festival. 6 July Brighouse March & Hymn Tune Contest - Brighouse Town Centre (Bethel Street + Town Hall), from 1pm. Entry details from 01484 722855 Teesdale Brass Band Contest - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham - for 4th section, unregistered and youth bands. 1st Old Boys Association Band - Carrick Castle, 3pm Audley Brass Band - Congleton Park, Congelton, 3pm Bandstand Concert - Myrtle Park, Bingley, 2pm Foden's Richardson Band - Chelford Foresters Friendly Society Brass - Foresters Concert - Ware Gosport Silver Band - Lee-on-Solent Memorial Gardens, 3pm Hathern Band - Birstall Gala, 7.30pm Highley Colliery Band - Birmingham Botanical Gardens Holbeach Town Band - Normandy Veterens Rally - Anglia Motel, 1pm Hook Norton Brass Band - Peoples Park, Banbury, 2pm Ipswich and Norwich co op Band - Music in the Park, Ipswich, 3pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Heveningham Hall country fair Jaguar (Coventry) Band - St James Park, London, 3pm Lincoln Beevor Band - Midsummer Music - Showground Lincoln Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - Tower Gardens, Skegness. 2pm Littleborough Public Brass Band - Hare Hill Park, Hare Hill Park Road, Lttleborough, 2pm Lofthouse 2000 Brass Band - Armley Park, 2pm Longridge Brass Band - Riversway, Preston Markham Main Colliery Band - York City Centre, 2pm Marsh Gibbon Silver Band - Juniper Fete, 2.30pm Muker Silver Band - Gunnerside, 3pm Nailsworth Silver Band - Evesham Bandstand, 2.30pm Nailsworth Silver Band - Nailsworth Games, 10.30am Newark Town Band - Newark Castle grounds, 2pm Newmount Brass - Sewerby Hall Gardens, Bridlington, 1.30pm North Fylde Brass Band - Wrea Green Field Day, 2pm Otley Brass Band - East End Park, Leeds Pencoed Concert Brass Band - Porthcawl Blind School Phoenix Brass - Beaminster Festival Garden Party Phoenix Brass Band - Froxfield Village Hall, 2pm Pilling Band - Forton Songs of Praise, 6pm Pilling Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Pleasley Colliery Welfare Brass Band - Pleasley Well Dressings, 3pm Poyntzpass Silver Band - Scarva Bandstand, 3pm Ramsey Town Band - Maritime Songs of Praise, Market Square, Ramsey Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Sharpness & District Silver Band - 4-5pm Saul Festival Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Skelmanthorpe Band - Skelmanthorpe Sing, 2.30pm St Breward Silver Band - St Breward Carnival St Gennys Silver Band - CBBA Festival of Brass, Bude Bandstand St Pinnock Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Stape Silver Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington, 2pm Streets of Brass - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Durham Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - Pateley Bridge Bandstand, 2pm Sussex Brass - Car Show - Bodiam Recreation Ground Templemore Band - Barnett Demense, Belfast, 3pm Tewkesbury Town Band - Ross on Wye Bandstand, 2pm Towcester Studio Band - Garden Party - Wardington House, Banbury, 2.30pm Wadhurst Brass Band - Bewl Run, 11.45am Wakefield Metropolitan Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Ware Brass - The Gardens, The Priory, Ware, 3pm Watchet RBL Band - Blenheim Gardens Bandstand, Minehead, 12pm and 2.30pm Watchet Town Band - Minehead RNLI Life Boat Station, 3pm Watership Brass Band - Jaguar Drivers Club - Highclere Castle, 11am Witney Town Band - Open Air Service - St. Leonard's Church, Eynsham Wolverton Town Band - It's in the Square, Wolverton, 12.30pm Worksop Miners Welfare Band - Center Parks, 2pm Wotton & District Silver Band - The Royal Oak, Wotton-Under-Edge 7 July Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Ackworth Quaker Schoo Poyntzpass Silver Band - Tandragee Watford Band - St. Andrew's Precinct, South Oxhey, 2pm 8 July Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm 9-13 July  New Zealand Brass Band Championships - Christchurch Town Hall + Convention Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand 9-20 July  Summer Brass Festival & Institute 2008 - The Art of Sound - with Bay Brass - Menlo School, San Francisco Bay, California 9 July East Yorkshire Motor Services Brass Band - Priory Church, Bridlington, 8pm Launceston Town Band - Padstow Quay, 2.30 & 7.30 p.m. Poyntzpass Silver Band - Hamiltonsbawn parade Trimdon Concert Brass Band - Durham Miners Gala Pre-March - Trimdon Station/Colliery Wingates Band - North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford 10 July Ramsey Town Band - Loch Promenade Church, Douglas, 8pm St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm St Keverne Brass Band - Mullion Wellington (Telford) Brass Band + Shifnal Male Voice Choir - Shifnal, 7.30pm 11 July Ratby Co-operative Band - Thornton Church, 7.30pm RMT Easington Colliery Band - Easington Welfare, 7pm Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Stourport Flow Festival - Stourport Marina Basin Streets of Brass - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Darlington 12-13 July Ironbridge Gorge Brass Band Festival - Dale End Park Ironbridge & Enginuity, Ironbridge, Shropshire, 11am to 6pm. Free admission. Some of the country's top Brass Bands. Market Stalls and Fun for all the Family. Lots for everyone to do and see 12 July Old Silkstone Band 7th Annual March and Hymn contest - Red Lion pub and Silkstone Lodge, Silkstone, Barnsley, 3pm. Open to all sections. Each Band to play a hymn and march at both locations, with a deportment march in between. Contact Tracey Bostwick, 01226 248539, 07950 990801, or traceybostwick@nhs.net Last Night of the Proms - Ironbridge Gorge Brass Band Festival - Enginuity, Coalbrookdale, 7.30pm. Tickets Adults £7.50, Children £2.50. Further details: Bob Scott 07952 926550, ironbridgebbf@tiscali.co.uk Amersham Band - Speen Village fete Bactiguard Wire Brass - Stockton Heath Arts Festival, Stockton Heath Warrington, 7.30pm Basingstoke Silver Training Band - Kingsclere Primary School, Ash Grove, Kingsclere, 2.30pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Ripley Hospital Fete, 2.30pm Coleshill Town Band - Coleshill Town Hall, 7.30pm Gloucester Brass - Quedgeley Godalming Band - Cranleigh Fete Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Southend Hangleton Brass Band - Horsham Carfax Bandstand Haworth Band - Addingham Village Gala Heath Band - Fete - Stanbridge Hilgay Silver Band - Downham Town Square, 10am Hitchin Band - Sponsored Blow - Hitchin Market Square, 9am to 5pm Holymoorside Band - Fete - Eyre Chapel, Newbold, 2pm Ifton Band - Kinnerley Fete Ipswich and Norwich co op Band - St James's Park, London, 3pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Tendring Show - Ardleigh, 1pm Kennet Vale Brass - Marlborough Jazz Festival. Killamarsh Silver Band - South Anston Parish Council, 4pm KM Medway Concert Brass - Kent County Show Langley Band - West Park, Wolverhampton LGB Brass - Lewes Societies' Fair - Lewes Town Hall LGB Brass - Proms in the Paddock fireworks - Lewes Lincoln Beevor Youth Band - Boultham Park Fair, 11am Long Melford Silver Band - Ridgewell Fete Longridge Brass Band - Longridge Civic Hall Markham Main Colliery Band - Hatfield Gala, 1.45pm Martlesham Brass - Village Day, Martlesham Mid Sussex Brass Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 2pm Mount Charles Band - Last Night Of The Proms, Delabole Muker Silver Band - Catterick Village, 7pm Newmount Brass - West Hallam Well Dresssings, 1.30pm Newport Borough Brass - Forest Childrens Centre Concert - Duffryn, Newport Newtown Silver Band - Llanidloes Carnival Patcham Silver Band - Patcham scouts fete Pencoed Concert Brass Band - Fete - Pencoed Old Folk Home, 1pm Portsmouth City Band - Portchester School, 1pm Poulton-le-Fylde Brass Band - Knott End Gala Poyntzpass Silver Band - Demonstration in Tandragee Radcliffe Band - Mill Gate Shopping Centre, Bury, 11am Redbridge Brass Band + Essex Police Band - Hadleigh Temple Salvation Army, High Street, Hadleigh, Benfleet SS7 2PA, 7.30pm Ripon City Band - Burton Leonard Feast, 1.45pm Rode Hall Silver Band - Middlewich High School Summer Fair, 1.30pm Rothwell Temperance Band - Wakefield Cathedral, 7pm Rushden Town Band - All Hallows Church Fete - Wellingborough Shipston Town Band - Shipston-upon-Stour Carnival Shrewton Silver Band - Fete - Brigmerston Village Green, 2pm Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Alkham Fete, 2pm South Milford Brass - South Milford Gala St Sebastian Wokingham Band - Summer Fayre - WADE Day Centre, Wokingham, 2pm St Sebastian Wokingham Band - Sunny Saturday - Wokingham Town Centre, 10am Staffordshire Band + Arrow Valley Brass - No. 8 Community Centre, Pershore, 7.30pm Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Stourport Flow Festival - Stourport Marina Basin Strata Brass - Hoyland Methodist Church, 2.15pm Streets of Brass - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Darlington Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - Darley Chapel Garden Party, 2pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Old Malton Church Garden fete Taverham Band - Bunwell Outdoors Tewkesbury Town Band - Imperial Gardens, Cheltenham Toddington Town Band - Wing Carnival Uckfield Concert Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm United CO-OP 2000 Brass Band - Wheelock Fate Weymouth Concert Brass - Cerne Abbas Fete, 12.45pm Winchcombe Concert Brass - Winchcombe Railway Station Witney Town Band - Fyfield Village Fete, 2pm Wolverton Town Band - St Georges Church Wotton & District Silver Band - Fete - Wotton Church 13 July Kippax Entertainment Contest - Heat 3 (E.Y.M.S Band + Pennine Brass Band) - Kippax Band Social Club, Mount Pleasant, Kippax, Leeds, LS25 7AT, 8pm Morley March & Hymn Tune Contest - Morley, West Yorkshire, 1pm. Details from Geoff Fowler, 12 Scatcherd Lane, Morley, LS27 9BE. Tel: 0113 253 0719 geoff.fowler@williamslea.com. Each band will perform a short march along the pedestrianised Queen Street towards the town hall, followed by a contest march and hymn tune to be played in the band arena outside the town hall. All proceeds from this event are for Lions Charities. There is a prize fund in excess of £1500 which includes a first prize of £500. A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band - Lakeside, Newent Abbey Brass Band - Wallingford Castle Gardens Amington Band - Tutbury Music Festival - Tutbury Castle, Tutbury Bandstand Concert - Lister Park, Bradford, 2pm Bath Spa Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Bedwas, Trethomas & Machen - Morgan Jones Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Blaenafon Concert Band - Bargoed Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Great Horwood Silver Band - Perfect Village Sunday - Tingewick Helston Town Band - Princess Pavilions, Falmouth, 2.30pm Huddersfield Wind Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Launceston Town Band - Padstow Quay, 2.30 & 7.30 p.m. Les Hors de Rails - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Locomotion, The National Railway Museum in Shildon. Free entry Leyburn Band - Open Air Service, Jervaulx Abbey, 10.30am Leyburn Band - Open Gardens Day, Bellerby Long Melford Silver Band - St Ives Lydbrook Band - Malvern Park, 2.30pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis Malvern Hills Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm Marske Brass Band - Saltburn Bandstand, 2.30pm Martlesham Brass - Service on the Green, Martlesham Newhall Band - Well Dressing Festival - Aston-on-Trent, 3pm Newport Borough Brass - Bedwellty Park Bandstand, Tredegar Northallerton Silver Band - Northallerton Carnival, 1pm Old Hall Brass - Hesketh Golf Club, Southport, 6.00pm Otterbourne Brass - Otterbourne Village hall Peatbog Faeries - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Gala Theatre, Durham. Tickets £13 (£10 conc) Pilling Band - Great Eccleston Show Poole Borough Band - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Poynton Youth Brass Band - Ness Gardens RAF Halton Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Ratby Co-operative Band - Hollycroft Park, Hinckley, 2.30pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Green, 3pm Rushden Mission Band - Kettering Bandstand Rushden Windmill Brass Band - Castle Ashby Show Rushen Silver Band - Royal Hotel, Port Erin, 8pm Salvation Army Band - Waunfawr Park, Caerphilly, 2.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Slinfold Concert Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Slinfold Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm St Austell Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Stanhope Silver Band - Camping and Caravan Club - Harpington Hill Farm, Morden, 11am Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Bandstand Concert - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 12pm Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Stourport Flow Festival - Stourport Marina Basin Strata Brass - Clifton Park, Rotherham, 2pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Sewerby Hall, Bridlington Tarleton Brass Band - Botanic Gardens Concert, Southport Taverham Band - Fairhaven Gardens, 2pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Westwood Nursing Home, Worksop, 2pm Tiverton Town Band - Newton Abbot bandstand Toddington Town Band - Toddington Green, 12pm Watchet Town Band - Service - Bossington Church, 3pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2.30pm Woodhouse Prize Band - Queens Park, Chesterfield, 2.30pm Wotton & District Silver Band - Red Cross Open Gardens - Highnam Court Wrentham Band - Nicholas Everitt Park, 2pm 14 July Hade Edge Band - University of Huddersfield Graduations Poyntzpass Silver Band - Demonstration in Scarva Shirland WT Band - Newton Village Hall, 7pm Templemore Band - Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 7.30pm 15 July Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 8pm St Keverne Brass Band - BBQ - St.Keverne Square 16 July Helston Town Band - Princess Pavilions, Falmouth, 7.30pm Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Bass Clef - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Gala Theatre, Durham. Tickets £9 (£6 conc) Melbourne Town Band - Long Lane Fete, 6.30pm St Pinnock Band - Lostwithiel, 8pm Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - Pateley Bridge Bandstand, 11am 17 July Launceston Town Band - Launceston Show - Show ground, South Petherwin, 2.00 p.m. St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Sussex Brass - Hawkhurst RBL, 8pm 18 July Bellowhead - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Gala Theatre, Durham. Tickets £16 (£12 conc) Hyde Band - Pinewalk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 7pm Langley Band - Barlow Theatre St Keverne Brass Band - Coverack Carnival Watchet RBL Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm Watchet Town Band - Minehead Station, 7.15pm 19 July 1st Old Boys Association Band - Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 3.45pm A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band - Carnival - Mitcheldean Alder Valley Brass - The Bourne Show - Lower Bourne, Farnham, 2pm Bilsdale Silver Band - Ryedale Music Festival - Helmsley Market Square, 2.30pm Denmead Band - Garden Party - Inhams Lane Denmead, 5pm Gosport Silver Band - Ferry Gardens, Gosport, 3pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Deal Haslemere Town Band - Produce Show - Albury, 2pm Haworth Band - Oxenhope Village Fete, Millenium Green Highley Colliery Band - Trevithick 200 Celebrations - Bridgnorth Ipswich and Norwich co op Band - Rye, Sussex Knottingley Concert Brass Band - Patron's Concert - Ackworth Quaker School, WF7 7LT Langley Band - Barlow Theatre LGB Brass - Ripe & Chalvington Flower Show, 2pm Lingfield Silver Band - Withyham Fete Lydney Town Band - Lydney Hospital Fete, 2.15pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Cotleigh Fete Market Rasen (RPC) Band - Wainfleet Parade Marlow Town Band - Thames Valley Hospice Proms Day, Cookham Marshfield Band - Frenchay Flower Show Martlesham Brass - Woodbridge Lodge, 7.30pm Mayfield Band - Mayfield Horticultural Show, 2pm Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Corston Fete Mole Valley Silver Band - Holmwood Village Day Mossley Band - Cholmondeley Castle, 6.30pm Nailsworth Silver Band - Gloucester Carnival, 2pm Newport (Shropshire) Town Band - Newport Show Newstead Band - Crossley Park, Ripley Newtown Silver Band - Rhayader Carnival North Fylde Brass Band - Weeton Garden Party, 1.30pm Otley Brass Band - Pateley Bridge Rode Hall Silver Band - Congleton Carnival St Austell Band - Par Carnival, 6pm St Keverne Brass Band - St Keverne Carnival St Pinnock Band - Par Carnival, 6pm Saltash Town Band - Ipplepen Cottage Garden Society Fete Scissett Youth Band - St Pauls Hall, Huddersfield, 7pm Soweto Kinch - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - Gala Theatre, Durham. Tickets £15 (£13 conc) Stannary Brass Band - Tavistock Carnival Procession, 6.30pm SWT Woodfalls Band - Trafalgar (Downton) School, 7.30pm Templemore Band - Northcott Shopping Centre, Glengormley, 2pm Tiverton Town Band - Ale tasting and Bread weighing Medieval Fayre, Ashburton United CO-OP 2000 Brass Band - Northwich Church Ware Brass - Beer Festival - Broxbourne Conservative Club, High Street, Hoddesdon, 3pm Watchet Town Band - Village Fete - Luxborough, 2.30pm Welbeck Estates Brass Band - Acorn Theatre, Worksop, 7.30pm Wem Jubilee Band - Wem Sweet Pea Festival Weston Brass - Victoria Methodist Church, Weston-s-Mare, 7.30pm Whitchurch Band - Calverhall Fete, 2pm Whitwell Brass Band - Retford Golf Club, 7pm Woodley Concert Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm YBS Concert Brass Band - Proms on the Farm - Sycamore Farm, Brunthwaite 20 July Durham County BBA Picnic in the Park Entertainment Contest - Durham Brass Festival 2008 - DLI Museum and Art Gallery Grounds, Durham, 10am. Free entry YHBBA Conductors Workshop - Ripon Band Room, Ripon. Led by Russell Gray, the workshop is open to anyone whether just starting out or experienced and want some tips and tuition from an expert. The cost is £25 and refreshments and a light lunch are included. For more information and and application form, see www.yhbba.org.uk or call Peter Gilby 01765 600491 Band Concert - Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, 2pm Bath Spa Band - Memorial Gardens, Bath, 3pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Vicar Water Country Park, 2.00pm Bournemouth Concert Brass - Classic Car Rally - Breamore House, 10.30am Camborne Town Band - Brass on the Grass - Constantine Dove Holes Brass Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Eastbourne Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Grove Theatre, Dunstable Harrogate Band - Canal Gardens, Roundhay, Leeds, 2.30pm Harwich Royal British Legion Brass Band - Columbine Centre, Walton Haslemere Town Band - Gostree Meadows, Farnham, 2pm Helston Town Band - Constantine Band Sunday, Constantine Hitchin Band - Hertford Castle, 2.30pm Holymoorside Band - Three Stags Heads - Darley Bridge, 7.30pm Humberside Police Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington, 2pm Ilkeston Brass - Horsley Village Event, 2.30pm Ipswich and Norwich co op Band - Rye, Sussex Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Band - Renishaw Hall & Gardens, Renishaw, 2pm Kennet Vale Brass - North Newnton Killamarsh Silver Band - Brodsworth Hall, 3pm KM Medway Concert Brass - Aylesford Priory Garden Party Laganvale (Metal Technology) Band - Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 3.45pm Littleborough Brass Band - Queens Park, Heywood, 2pm Lympstone Band - Memorial Service - Exeter and Devon Crematorium, 2pm Malvern Chase Brass Band - Brinton Park, Kidderminster, 2.30pm Malvern Hills Band - Fete - Dinham Gardens, Ludlow Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Wells Bandstand Mount Charles Youth Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Muker Silver Band - Richmond, 3pm Nailsworth Silver Band - Nailsworth Games New Forest Brass Band - Eastleigh Bandstand, 3pm Newmount Brass - Birmingham Botanical Gardens, 1.30pm North Fylde Brass Band - Fleetwood Transport Festival - St Peters Church in Fleetwood, 12pm Oxted Band - Woldingham Day Picnic, Woldingham Patcham Silver Band - Blatchington windmill fete Poyntzpass Silver Band - Scarva Bandstand, 3pm RMT Easington Colliery Band - Horden Welfare Park, 2pm Royal British Legion Victory Brass Band - St Marys Church, 4pm Sale Brass - Brass 'n' Blooms - Lyme Park Shipston Town Band - Songs of Praise - Bodictote, Banbury, 5.20pm Shrewton Silver Band - Church service - Shrewton Village Hall, 10.15am Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Connaught Park, Dover, 2pm Soham Comrades Brass Band - Cherry Tree Bandstand, Cherry Tree PH, Soham, 7pm South Milford Brass Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm St Austell Band - Killacourt, Newquay, 2pm St Gennys Silver Band - Songs of Praise, Crackington Haven, 7.00pm St Keverne Brass Band - Brass on Grass - Constantine Stiperstones Brass - Vintage club fun day at Upton Magna, 2pm Stone Town Band - Dunston Fete, 2pm SWT Woodfalls Band - P&O Cruises - Play out Artemis, 3.45pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Queens Park. Chesterfield, 2pm Tiverton Town Band - Historic Vehicle Society Coastal run - Bovey Tracey in afternoon Tiverton Town Band - Historic Vehicle Society Coastal run - Teignmouth in morning Uckfield Concert Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Ware Brass - St John the Evangelist, High Cross, 3pm Watchet RBL Band - Porlock Fete, 2pm Watership Brass Band - Forbury Gardens, Reading Watford Band - Hatfield House, 1.30pm West Yorkshire Police Band - Carr Gate, Wakefield Wetherby and District Silver Band - Vintage Car Rally - Newby Hall, 1.30pm Wilsden Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Worcester Concert Brass - Brinton Park, Kidderminster, 2.30pm 22 July Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm 23 July South London Fellowship Band - Eastbourne Citadel Salvation Army, Langney Road, Eastbourne, 7.45pm Riviera Concert Brass - Central Church, Torquay, 7.30pm 24 July Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Pensford Evergreen St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm 25 July - 3 August Lieksa Brass Week - Lieska, Finland. Competitions, concerts, masterclasses and more. Theme this year is "Ladies Year" 25 July Hyde Band - Pinewalk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 7pm St Gennys Silver Band - Flower Show, Legion Hall, 6.00pm St Keverne Brass Band - Proms - Hall for Cornwall 26-29 July  International Brass Band Camp - Dunseith, North Dakota 26 July - 2 August Aberystwyth Musicfest - Brass, strings, woodwind, piano, vocal 26 July - 30 August Dartington International Summer School - Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon 26 July Bilsdale Silver Band - "The Last Night of the Proms" - Chop Gate Village Hall, 8pm Chichester City Band - Sidlesham Fete, 2pm Cory Band - St Peter's Church, Pentre Great Horwood Silver Band - Aston Abbotts Church fete Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Plymouth Pavilions Harrogate Band - Mowbray Proms - Kirkby Malzeard, 7.30pm Hook Norton Brass Band - Wootton Wawen Parish Church, 7pm Lancing Brass of RBL - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Leyland Band - St. Annes Church, Manchester Lydbrook Band - Band Fete, Lydbrook House, Lower Lydbrook, 2.30pm Mole Valley Silver Band - Leigh Village Show Muker Silver Band - Hawes, 7.30pm Newmarket Town Band - NSPCC Raceday - Newmarket Racecourse Northop Silver Band - Snowdon Race Day - Snowdon Mountain Railway, Llanberis Station Pilling Band - Pilling Coffee Feast St Breward Silver Band - St Breward Church Fete, 2pm Stockport Silver Band - Fair - Hallam Gardens Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Summer Fete - Charlton Adam & Charlton Mackrell, 1pm Stone Town Band - Britannia and Leek Show - Leek, 8pm Sussex Brass - Pett Flower Show, Pett Showground, 2.15pm Tewkesbury Town Band - Cotswold Beer Festival, Postlip Hall, 12pm Thornton Cleveleys Brass Band - Staining and Normoss Gala, 11am Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Woodley Shopping Centre, 12pm Watchet RBL Band - Roadwater Fete, 2pm Watchet Town Band - Flower Show - Bicknoller, 2pm Waterbeach Brass - St. James, Lode 27 July - 17 August Canford Summer School of Music - Sherbourne, Dorset 27 July All Saints Concert Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Bandstand Concert - Myrtle Park, Bingley, 2pm Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Ropner Park, Stockton, 2pm Belper Town Wind Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Gweek Silver Band - Band Sunday - Gala Field, Gweek, 6.30pm Hatherleigh Silver Band - Ilfracombe Bandstand, 2pm Haverhill Silver Band - Recreation Ground, Haverhill Helston Town Band - Gweek Band Sunday, Gweek Holymoorside Band - Bandstand - Crossley Park, Ripley, 3pm Littleborough Public Brass Band - Littleborough Rushbearing Festival, 1pm Lofthouse 2000 Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Long Melford Silver Band - Village Green, Long Melford Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis Maltby Miners' Welfare Band - Brodsworth Hall Market Rasen (RPC) Band - Waltham Windmill Gala Marple Band - Chadkirk Festival - Chadkirk Mid Sussex Brass Band - Hever Castle, near Edenbridge, 12.30pm and 3pm Murton Colliery Band - South Shields Amphitheatre, 3.30pm Newport Borough Brass - Cwmbran Boating Lake, Cwmbran Poole Borough Band - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm RMT Easington Colliery Band - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Rode Hall Brass Band - Congleton Park, Congelton, 3pm Shipston Town Band - Droitwich Bandstand, 2.30pm Shrewton Silver Band - Band Stand, Swanage, 11am Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm St Albans City Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm St Breward Silver Band - Killacourt, Newquay, 2pm St Gennys Silver Band - Bude Bandstand, 2.30pm Stone Town Band - The Ampitheatre - Staffordshire, 2pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Parliament Street, York Taverham Band - Priory Maze Gardens - Beeston Regis, 2pm Templemore Band - Ormeau Park, Belfast, 3pm Wakefield Metropolitan Band - Farsley Park, Farsley, Leeds, 2.30pm Watchet RBL Band - Watchet Carnival March, 2pm Watchet Town Band - Watchet Carnival, 12.30pm Wealden Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Welbeck Estates Brass Band - Riddings Community Centre, 7.30pm Weston Brass - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 12pm and 2.30pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2.30pm Whitwell Brass Band - Center Parcs, Sherwood Forest, 12pm Wilsden Band - East End Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Winchcombe Concert Brass - Stratford Park Bandstand, 2.30pm 28 July - 1 August Uppingham Summer School - Young Musicians Week - Uppingham, Rutland 28 July - 2 August Wessex Band Summer School - Oakmead College Of Technology, Duck Lane Kinson, Bournemouth. For woodwind, brass and percussion musicians of all ages and standards. Three bands - Training Band, Brass Band and Wind Band. For further details and application forms see the website or email Howard Bland secretary@wbss.net 28 July St Pinnock Band - Looe Floral Dance 29 July Gweek Silver Band - Pig Roast - Gala Field, Gweek, 6.30pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm Mount Charles Youth Band - Charlestown Regatta Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 8pm 30 July LGB Brass - Eastbourne Bandstand, 8pm St Gennys Silver Band - Sausage Sizzle, Crackington Haven beach, 7.30pm St Pinnock Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm South London Fellowship Band - Westminster Abbey, College Garden, 12.30pm 31 July Aberystwyth Musicfest 2008 - Brass Masterclass - Joseph Parry Hall, Aberystwyth, 2.45pm. With Paul Archibald, (trumpet) & Juliet Edwards (piano) Mount Charles Youth Band - Charlestown Fete St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm August 2008 1 August Riviera Concert Brass - Last Night of the Proms - Collaton St. Mary Church, 7.30pm Watchet RBL Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm 2-9 August Music for People Summer School of Music - Giggleswick School, Settle, North Yorkshire. UK's most comprehensive Summer Music School. Brass Band, Orchestra, Big Band, Dance band. See the website for details. 2 August Charley Brighton (euphonium) + Malcolm Stowell (piano) - Recital - St. Mary's, Church Street. Slough, Berkshire, 12 noon. Admission free. East Peckham Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Harrogate Band - Yorkshire Day Festival - Harewood House, Harewood, Leeds, 11am-4pm Hatherleigh Silver Band - Save the Children fete - Hatherleigh Helston Town Band - St Agnes Carnival, St Agnes Hyde Band - Gorley By Gone Days, 7.30pm Ilkeston Brass - Langar Woods Park, 6.30pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Barking Fair Ipswich Hospital Band + Kirkham Band - St Peter's by the Waterfront, 12.30pm Knighton Town Silver Band - Clun Carnival Launceston Town Band - Flower Festival - Stoke Climsland Lyme Regis Town Band - Kilmington Show Lympstone Band - Lympstone Furry Dance - Lympstone Markham Main Colliery Band - East Park, Hull Rode Hall Silver Band - Biddulph Carnival Shrewton Silver Band - Caravan Club - John Withers Field, Shrewton, 2pm Sidmouth Town Band - Sidmouth Folk Festival - The Ham, Sidmouth St Austell Band - Tywardreath Fete St Pinnock Band - Looe Carnival, Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Summer Fete - Fivehead Tiverton Town Band - Bovey Tracey Carnival Wetherby and District Silver Band - Tockwith & District Show, 1pm Wigston Band - Foston Church 3-9 August 18th International Brass Band Summer School - Swansea University. Artistic Directors Robert Childs and Nicholas Childs. Tutors: Richard Marshall, Ian Porthouse, Owen Farr, David Childs, Brett Baker, Joseph Cook, Alun Horgan, Philip Wilby and Steve Sykes. Details from Alison Childs, P.O. Box 42, Denshaw, Saddleworth, Oldham, OL3 5WQ. Tel: 01457 820138, 07802 771735, email admin@ibbss.com 3 August Bandstand Concert - Lister Park, Bradford, 2pm Camborne Town Band - Padstow Quay Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm and 8pm Gretton Silver Band - Uppingham Flower Show, 2pm Harrogate Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Heath Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Holymoorside Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Jaguar (Coventry) Band - Allesley Park, Coventry, 3pm KM Medway Concert Brass - Deal Bandstand Knottingley Silver Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Leyburn Band - United Christian Worship - Catholic Church, Leyburn, 7pm Lofthouse 2000 Brass Band - Bramley Park, 2pm Lydbrook Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm Malvern Hills Band - Ghelevelt Park, Worcester, 2.30pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Normanby Hall, 1.30pm Marshfield Band - Blaise Castle Estate Meltham and Meltham Mills Band - Holmfirth Gardens, 1pm Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Wells Bandstand Mount Charles Band - St. Keverne Band Sunday, 7pm North Fylde Brass Band - Marsh Mill, 2pm Otley Brass Band - Pudsey Park Otterbourne Brass - P&O playoff - Dock gate 10 'Artemis', 3.30pm Pilling Band - North Shore Methodist Church, 7.30pm Reeth Brass Band - Saltburn by the Sea (Bandstand), 2.30pm Ripon City Band - Spa Gardens, Ripon, 3pm Shipston Town Band - Abbey Riverside Gardens, Evesham, 2.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm St Pinnock Band - Padstow, 2.30pm and 7.30pm Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - MG Rally - Pateley Bridge Showground, 1pm Wardle Anderson Brass - Swinton Park, Swinton, Manchester, Watford Band - Mill Meadows, Bedford, 3pm Wetherby and District Silver Band - Canal Gardens, Leeds, 2.30pm Wotton & District Silver Band - Red Cross Open Gardens - Ozzleworth Park York R.I. Golden Rail Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington, 2pm 4-9 August Armagh Old Boys' 8th Annual Summer School - Armagh 4 August Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Cowes Concert Band + Solent Gilbert & Sullivan Society - St Mary's Church, Cowes, Isle of Wight, 8pm 5-16 August Summer Music on the Shannon - Summer school - Limerick, Ireland 5 August Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm 6 August 1st Old Boys Association Band - Botanic Gardens, Belfast, 7.30pm Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Poole Borough Band - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth, 7pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Westminster Abbey Gardens St Gennys Silver Band - Band Fete, Crackington Haven, 7.30pm 7 August Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm 8 August Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm 9 August Hathern Band - Grace Dieu Proms, 6.30pm Hyde Band - Ellingham Show Ibstock Brick Brass - Lutterworth, 7.30pm Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Clutton Flower Show New Forest Brass Band - Lymington Bandstand, 3pm Parc & Dare Band - Wales-Japan Club International Festival of Brass - Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff, Cardiff Ramsey Town Band - Royal Manx Agricultural Show Reeth Brass Band - Reeth & District Sports Association Parade, 1pm Saltash Town Band - Mona's Duck Race, Shroka, Saltash, 2pm St Pinnock Band - Golant Carnival, 6.30pm Stiperstones Brass - Minsterley Show, 2pm Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - Ripley Show, 1pm Sussex Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Easton Gardens Fete Wrexham Brass (Newi) - Victorian Festival - Erddig, Wrexham, 11am 10 August Band Concert - Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, 2pm Bath Spa Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Bradwell Silver Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm East Sussex Concert Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Golborne Brass Band - Vale Park Hatherleigh Silver Band - Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot Hawk Green Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Christchurch Park Killamarsh Silver Band - Queens Park, Chesterfield, 2.30pm Kippax Band - Kippax Band Club, 8pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Crossley Park, Ripley, 3pm Marshfield Band - John Coles Park, Chippenham Moulton 77 Brass Band - Paradise Park, Kettering Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Bleneim Gardens, Minehead Old Silkstone Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Otterbourne Brass - P&O playoff - Dock gate 10 'Arcadia', 3.30pm Oxted Band - Tonbridge Castle Lawn, Tonbridge, 3pm Ramsey Town Band - Mooragh Park, 3pm Reeth Brass Band - West Burton Chapel Anniversary, 6.30pm Rockingham Band - Brodsworth Hall Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Haling Dene Centre, Penkridge Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Skelmersdale Prize Brass Band - Knowsley Flower Show Templemore Band - Loughshore Marina, Antrim, 3pm Tiverton Town Band - Westexe Park, Tiverton Trimdon Concert Brass Band - Preston Park, Stockton Ware Brass - The Gardens, The Priory, Ware, 3pm Watership Brass Band - Victoria Park, Newbury Watford Band - Hatfield House, 1.30pm Wealden Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Weston Brass - Grove Park, Weston-s-Mare Weymouth Concert Brass - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2.30pm Winchcombe Concert Brass - Stroud Bandstand, 2.30pm Wrexham Brass (Newi) - Victorian Festival - Erddig, Wrexham, 11am YBS Concert Brass Band - Bingley Show - Myrtle Park, Bingley 12 August Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm Totnes Band - Totnes Floral Dance, 6.45pm 13 August Holymoorside Band - Well Blessing - Barlow, 6.30pm Northallerton Silver Band - Hambleton Forum, 7.30pm Rushen Silver Band - St. Catherine's Church, Port Erin, 8pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Shanklin Regatta, Shanklin Esplanade St Gennys Silver Band - Band Fayre, Crackington Haven, 7.30pm 14 August St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Totnes Band - Dawlish Carnival, 7pm 15 August Harrogate Band - Kirklington Leyburn Band - Coffee morning concert - Methodist Hall, Leyburn 16 August Great Horwood Silver Band - Aston Clinton Fete Harrogate Band - Ripon Racecourse, 1pm Marshfield Band - Marshfield Village Day Maxilead Metals Tyldesley Band - Maypole Disaster Commemoration, Abram, 1pm Patcham Silver Band - Small Dole horticultural show Ratby Co-operative Mid Band - Markfield Gala, 2pm Sharpness & District Silver Band - 2-4pm Tibberton Fete Totnes Band - Totnes Carnival, 6pm Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Hurst Horticultural Show Watchet Town Band - Flower Show - Puriton, 2pm Watford Band - Bushey Museum Garden Party, 1pm Wigston Band - All Saints, Wigston 17 August  South Australian Band Championships - Adelaide 1st Old Boys Association Band - Sentry Hill, Glengormley, 3pm Bandstand Concert - Myrtle Park, Bingley, 2pm Camborne Town Band - Victoria Gardens, Truro Cawston Brass Band - Eaton Park, 3pm City Brass Ensemble - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Clifton & Lightcliffe Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Fakenham Town Band - Lifeboat Service - Wells-Next-The-Sea Quayside, 6.30 pm Hazel Grove Brass Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Ibstock Brick Brass - Newark castle, 2pm Ilkeston Brass - Victoria Park, Ilkeston, 2.30pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Westleton Barrel Fair Leyburn Band - Carlton-in-Coverdale Fun Day Malvern Hills Band - Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, 1.30pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Brodsworth Hall, 3pm Marshfield Band - Victoria Park, Bath Mid Sussex Brass Band - Horsham Park Podium Bandstand, 2.30pm Mount Charles Youth Band - St. Ewe Country Fair, 10.30am Northallerton Silver Band - Saltburn Bandstand, 2.30pm Portsmouth City Band - St Mary's Church, Fratton, 4pm Reeth Brass Band - Scorton Feast, 3pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - East Park, Wolverhampton Rushden Windmill Brass Band - Riverside Park, Huntingdon, 2.30pm Rushen Silver Band - Royal Hotel, Port Erin, 8pm Shipston Town Band - Sanders Park, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm St Breward Silver Band - Victoria Gardens, Truro St Pinnock Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Sussex Brass - Alexandra Park - Hastings, 3pm Tewkesbury Town Band - Stroud Bandstand, 2.30pm Tiverton Town Band - Bridgwater Trimdon Concert Brass Band - Blackhall Fun Day - Blackhall Watford Band - Hertford Castle, 2.30pm Welbeck Estates Brass Band - Hall Leys Park, Matlock Woodhouse Prize Band - Normanby Hal Wotton & District Silver Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm 18 August Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Knighton Town Silver Band - Knighton town Crier's Competition, 11am Knighton Town Silver Band - Montgomery Show, 1pm St Pinnock Band - Fowey Floral Dance, 7.15 pm 19 August Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm St Austell Band - Fowey Regatta Week 20 August Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm St Austell Band - Fowey Regatta Week 21 August Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 7pm St Austell Band - Fowey Regatta Week St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Wingates Band - Southport Flower Show 22 August Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Hyde Band - Pinewalk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 7pm St Austell Band - Fowey Regatta Week Watchet RBL Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm Wingates Band - Southport Flower Show 23 August Land o' Burns Contest (for Championship, First and Section section bands in the UK) - Walker Halls, Troon Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Coleshill Town Band - Fire and Brass 2008 - The Croft, Coleshill, 6.30pm Farnborough Band of RBL - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Gretton Silver Band - Wansford Flower Show - Haycock Hotel, 1pm Haworth Band - Malham Show Highley Colliery Band - Geopark Way Opening Celebration - Highley Station Knighton Town Silver Band - Knighton Show and Carnival Leyburn Band - Wensleydale Agricultural Show, Leyburn Phoenix Brass - Barrington Fête, 1.30pm Porthywaen Silver Band - Berriew Show Royal Buckley Town Band - Denbigh Flower Show Stanhope Silver Band - Romaldkirk Fair Tiverton Town Band - Topsham Carnival Watchet RBL Band - Bicknoller Garden Party, Trendle Lane, 2.15pm Watford Band - St. James Park, London, 11am West Chiltington Silver Band - Horsham Carfax Bandstand, 2pm Wingates Band - Southport Flower Show 24 August 1st Old Boys Association Band - Loughshore Jordanstown, 3pm A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band - Bandstand, Ross-on-Wye Bandstand Concert - Lister Park, Bradford, 2pm Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Farnborough Band of RBL - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm and 8pm Great Horwood Silver Band - Lowndes Park, Chesham Gretton Silver Band - Brixworth Dog Sanctuary, 1pm Grimsdyke Brass - Golders Hill Park Bandstand, 3pm Hathern Band - Horticultural Show - 3 Crowns, 1.30pm Haworth Band - Haworth Show Holymoorside Band - Gardens - Chatsworth, 1.30pm Hyde Band - Frogham Tent Service, 10am Launceston Town Band - Killacourt, Newquay, 2.30 p.m. Leyburn Band - Flower Festival Songs of Praise, Thornton Watlass Church Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - Peasholme Park, Scarborough. 2pm Lydgate Brass Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Norfolk Wherry Brass - Bandstand, Mousehold Heath, 3pm Phoenix WM Brass - Knowle Park Solihull Ramsey Town Band - Colonnade Suite, Villa Marina, 3pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Firework Fund's Songs of Praise, 3pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Shanklin Cricket Club, Westhill Road Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm St Austell Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm St Gennys Silver Band - Songs of Praise, Boscastle Harbour, 6.00pm Stowmarket Concert Band - Nicholas Everitt Park, Oulton Broad, 2pm Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - Pateley Bridge Bandstand, 2pm Swinton & District Excelsior Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington, 2pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington Templemore Band - Loughshore Marina, Antrim, 3pm Tiverton Town Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead Trimdon Concert Brass Band - Ropner Park, Stockton Virtuosi GUS Band - Findon Dolben Cricket Ground, 2pm Welbeck Estates Brass Band - Center Parcs, Notts Wetherby & District Silver Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2.30pm Whitwell Brass Band - Three Stags Head, Darley Dale, 7pm Wingates Band - Southport Flower Show 25 August Bilsdale Silver Band - Farndale Show, 1.30pm Ilkeston Brass - Erewash Museum, Ilkeston, 1pm Leyburn Band - Leyburn Market Place, 1pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Flower Festival, All Saints Church, Sawley Old Hall Brass - St Peters Church Recreation Ground, Wigan Rd, Hindley, 12pm Otley Brass Band - Bolton Abbey Summer Fayre Phoenix WM Brass - Church Stretton Food Festival Poynton Royal (British Legion) Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Cheshire Home, Popham Road Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Littlewick Green Show Whitchurch Band - Cheshire Wakes - Tilston, Cheshire, 2pm Winchcombe Concert Brass - Winchcombe Flower Show - Winchcombe School 26-29 August SSCMS Summer School - Friends' Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton 26 August Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm St Pinnock Band - Polruan Regatta, 10.30am 27-29 August Brass Band Summer School - Belmont School Community Arts College, Durham. All brass players under the age of 18 are invited to attend. The course end with a short concert on Friday 29th August. Tuition will be provided free of charge by specialist brass players and students will be put into groups based on their individual playing ability. For more details or for an application form, please contact Miss Laura Boyle - email L.Boyle@belmontschool.org.uk 27 August Potter Bar Town Band - Open Day - Hatfield House, 1.30pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Show St Breward Silver Band - Padstow Bandstand, 7.30pm St Keverne Brass Band - Flambards St Pinnock Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Taverham Band - Whissonsett Church, 7.30pm 28 August Hatherleigh Silver Band - Moretonhampstead Carnival Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Mortonhampstead Carnival St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm 29 August Muker Silver Band - Church Wine Party - Muker, 7.30pm Watchet Town Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm 30 August Laganvale (Metal Technology) Band - Belfast Castle, 1pm Long Melford Silver Band - Cavendish Fete Nailsworth Silver Band - Hawkesbury Upton Horticultural show Ratby Co-operative Band - Crowpie Carnival - Ferndale Playing Field, Ratby Stanhope Silver Band - Weardale Show - St John's Chapel Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Street Fayre - Drayton, 11am Sussex Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Thundersley Brass Band - St James' Park, London 31 August 1st Old Boys Association Band - Carrick Castle, 3pm Bactiguard Wire Brass - Neston Parish Church, Neston, L64 9TZ, 7.30pm Band Concert - Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, 2pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Queens Park Chesterfield, 2.30pm till 4.30pm Chapeltown Silver Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Chinnor Silver Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Ipswich and Norwich co op Band - Art on the Prom, Felixstowe, 1pm Killamarsh Silver Band - Arboretum, Nottingham Launceston Town Band - Brass on the Grass - Bude, Castle Grounds, 2.30 p.m. LGB Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Mount Charles Youth Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Rode Hall Brass Band - Congleton Park, Congelton, 3pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - West Park, Wolverhampton Rushden Mission Band - Yardley Hastings Village open day, 2pm Rushden Windmill Brass Band - Pleasure Park, Rockingham Road, Kettering, 3pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Stanhope Silver Band - Weardale Show Service - St John's Chapel Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Brintons Park, Kidderminster, 2.30pm Sussex Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough SWT Woodfalls Band - P&O Cruises - Play out Ventura, 3.45pm Tarleton Brass Band - Becconsall Old Church Tewkesbury Town Band - Abbey Park Bandstand, Evesham, 2.30pm Watchet RBL Band - Ilfracombe Bandstand, 2pm Whitwell Brass Band - Center Parcs, Sherwood Forest, 12pm Woodhouse Prize Band - Renishaw Hall September 2008 2 September Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm Saltash Town Band - China Fleet Country Club 3 September Muker Silver Band - Muker Show North Fylde Brass Band - North Shore Methodist Church Dickson Road Blackpool, 7.30pm Poole Borough Band - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth, 7pm 5 September Ilkeston Brass - Attenborough Church, 7.30pm Yeovil Town Band - St Cuthbert's in Wells, 7.30pm 6 September Great Northern Brass Arts Festival - Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Box office: 0161 907 9000. All inclusive tickets available.   NSW State Brass Band Championships - Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith, NSW, Australia SWBBA Exmouth Brass Band Festival - Pavilion & Pavilion Gardens, The Esplanade, Exmouth. Entertainment contest. Black Dyke Band + Fodens Richardson Band + Brighouse & Rastrick Band - Great Northern Brass Arts Festival - Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 7.15pm. Box office: 0161 907 9000 Burbage Band - Last Night of the Proms - Westwood Golf Club, Leek, 8pm Fairey Band - Great Northern Brass Arts Festival - Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 4.15pm. Box office: 0161 907 9000 Grimsdyke Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 5.30pm Hade Edge Band - Holme Valley Hospital, 6pm Harrogate Band - Holy Trinity Church, Ripon, 7.30pm Hathern Band - Christchurch, Shepshed, 7.30 pm Highley Colliery Band - Bridgnorth Hospital Fete Ifton Band - Wem Carnival Ilkeston Brass - Smalley Garden Party, 2pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Bramford Church Melbourne Town Band - Turnditch and Windley Show, 2.30pm Mid Sussex Brass Band - Cuckfield Park, 2pm Moulton 77 Brass Band - Badby Village Fete National Childrens Band of Great Britain - Great Northern Brass Arts Festival - Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 2.15pm. Box office: 0161 907 9000 Northallerton Silver Band - Kildale Show Ratby Co-operative Band - Longcliffe Golf Club, Loughborough South Milford Brass - Ledsham Fayre St Austell Band - Grampound Carnival, 6pm Staffordshire Band - The Mall, Sutton Coldfield, 11am Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Royal British Legion 60th Anniversary - Claines, Worcester Swindon Brass - Town Gardens, Swindon, 3pm Templemore Band - Ormeau Park, Belfast, 3pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - The Crossing, Worksop, 7.30pm Vernon Building Society Poynton Brass Band - Heald Green Village Hall, 7.30pm Wadhurst Brass Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Wem Jubilee Band - Wem Carnival, 1.30pm Wingates Band - Great Northern Brass Arts Festival - Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 12pm. Box office: 0161 907 9000 7 September 1st Old Boys Association Band - Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 4.15pm A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band - Drybrook Methodist Church Band of the Guards Association - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm and 8pm Bath Spa Band - Broughton Gifford Bilsdale Silver Band - Saltburn Bandstand, 2.30pm Burbage Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Godalming Band - Bandstand, Godalming Golborne Brass Band - Mesnes Park, Newton, 2pm Gosport Silver Band - Osborne Gardens, Stanley Park, Stokes Bay, 3pm Hade Edge Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Hitchin Band - Helping Hands Hitchin - "Picnic in the Park" - Bancroft Park, Hitchin, 3pm Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Band - Parade - Snenton, Nottingham Jackfield Band - Summer Fete - Lady Forester's Centre - Broseley Jaguar (Coventry) Band - Festival of Motoring, Coventry Memorial Park Knighton Town Silver Band - Leintwardine First Responders and Fire Service, 12pm Lydbrook Band - Bromsgrove Park, 2.30pm Milton Keynes Brass - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Newport Borough Brass - Bellevue Park Bandstand, Newport North Fylde Brass Band - Stanley Park Bandstand, Blackpool, 2pm Otley Brass Band - Proms - How Stean Gorge Pendeen Silver Band + Newlyn Male Voice Choir - The Trinity Centre Newlyn, 7.30pm Portsmouth City Band - Hymns On The Green, Finchdean, 2pm Poyntzpass Silver Band - Lurgan Park Radcliffe Band - St John the Baptist Church, Walkden, 3pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Green, 3pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Sharpness & District Silver Band - 1pm Westbury on Severn Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Thirsk Races Syston Band - Castle Gardens, Leicester Templemore Band - Jordanstown Loughshore, 3pm Waterbeach Brass - Ely Riverside Weston Brass - Grove Park, Weston-s-Mare Winchcombe Concert Brass - Abbey Park, Evesham, 2.30pm Wrentham Band - Maritime Festival - South Quay, Great Yarmouth York Concert Band - Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington, 2pm 8 September Band of the Guards Association - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm 9 September Band of the Guards Association - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm 10 September Band of the Guards Association - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Long Melford Silver Band - Smeetham Hall Riviera Concert Brass - The Priory, Abbotskerswell, 7.30pm Rushen Silver Band - St. Catherine's Church, Port Erin, 8pm South London Fellowship Band - Butlins, Bognor Regis 11 September Band of the Guards Association - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Portsmouth City Band - Church Of The Holy Spirit, Fawcett Rd, 7.45pm 12 September Band of the Guards Association - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Camborne Town Band - Hall for Cornwalll, Truro Skelmanthorpe Band - Creswell, 7.30pm 13 September 156th British Open Championships - Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA. Tickets from 0121 780 3333 Gloucester Brass - Upton St. Leonards Fete Hitchin Band - British Legion Proms Concert - Westmill Centre, Hitchin, 7.30pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Desert Rats Re-union - Orwell Park School Maltby Miners' Welfare Band - Rotherham Civic Theatre Ratby Co-operative Mid Band - Anstey Gala, 2pm Raunds Temperance Band - St Peter's Church, Raunds, 7.30pm Ripon City Band - Harrogate Flower Show, 1.30pm Rode Hall Silver Band - Harriseahead Methodist Church Rushden Town Band - Dean & Shelton Show Scissett Youth Band - St Pauls Church, Shepley Second Wind Concert Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Stanhope Silver Band - Stanhope Show - Stanhope, 10.30am Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Holy Innocents Church, Kidderminster Strata Brass - Daisy Chain Nursery, Parkgate, 11am Yeovil Town Band - Yeovil in Bloom 14 September 127th Hardraw Scar Contest - Green Dragon Inn, Hardraw, Hawes, North Yorkshire, DL8 3LZ. A spectacular setting for a contest in the natural amphitheatre by the Hardraw Force waterfall. Entry forms and rules are available from www.yhbba.co.uk Bath Spa Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Bilsdale Silver Band - Duncombe Park, 2pm Corby Silver Band - Rock Road Park, Kettering, 3pm Eastbourne Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Hilgay Silver Band - Battle of Britain Service - Downham Market War Memorial, 10.30pm Kennet Vale Brass - Pewsey Carnival Service & Concert Kippax Band - Kippax Band Club, 8pm Martlesham Brass - Martlesham Heath Aviation Society Mid Sussex Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Mid Sussex Brass Band - Eastbourne Bandstand Proms, 8pm Newmarket Town Band - Last Night of the Proms - All Saints Newmarket Oxted Band - Service on the Green, Hurst Green, 3.30pm Rushden Mission Band - Battle of Britain - Rushden Mission Church, 10.45am Rushen Silver Band - Royal Hotel, Port Erin, 8pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Stannary Brass Band - Courtney Park bandstand, Newton Abbot Stowmarket Concert Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - Otley Vintage Extravaganza, 11am Thornton Cleveleys Brass Band - Thornton Little Theatre, 8pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Queens Park. Chesterfield, 2pm Trimdon Concert Brass Band - Horden Welfare Park, Horden Wadhurst Brass Band - Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, 12pm Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Forbury Gardens, Reading, 3pm White Rose Concert Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Wilsden Band - Harden Beck Show, 1.40pm 19 September Jaguar (Coventry) Band - Bedworth Civic Hall, 7.30pm South Milford Brass - Sherburn Methodist Church 20 September Basingstoke Concert Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Foden's Richardson Band - Dalkeith School's Community Campus, 2 Cousland Road, Dalkeith, Midlothian, EH22 2PS, 7pm. Presented by the new Midlothian Arts & Creativity Team. Tickets from www.thebooth.co.uk Hebden Bridge Band - "Brassed Off" Supper Concert - Mytholm Church Kennet Vale Brass - Pewsey Carnival Procession KM Medway Concert Brass - Larkfield church Leyburn Band - Methodist Chapel Harvest Festival, Harmby Village Hall, 7.30pm Lydbrook Band - Eastbach Court, nr Lydbrook, 3pm Market Rasen (RPC) Band - Tower Gardens, Skegness, 2pm Mount Charles Band - Proms At The Minack, 7.30pm Otley Brass Band - Otley Folk Festival Poole Borough Band - Canford Cliffs Village Hall, 8pm Ripon City Band - Stokesley Show Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Shugborough 'Lilliput' Weekend St Ronan's Silver Band - Memorial Hall, Innerleithen, 7.30pm 21 September EABBA Brass Training Course - St Andrew's & Blackfriars' Halls, Norwich. Course Tutors: Dr Roger Webster, Lesley Howie, Michael Dodd, Chris Jeans, David Nesbitt. Details from administration@eabba7.freeserve.co.uk Wychavon Festival of Brass Entertainment Contest - Open own choice entertainment contest in five sections - Venues TBA, 10am to 10pm. Further details from the website. Crawley Millennium Concert Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Haverhill Silver Band - Town Hall, Haverhill Ipswich Hospital Band - Henham Steam Rally - Henham Park Marshfield Band - John Coles Park, Chippenham Marske Brass Band - Ropner Park Bandstand, Stockton, 2pm Mount Charles Band - Proms At The Minack, 2.30pm and 7.30pm Reading Spring Gardens Brass Band - Newbury Bandstand, 3pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Shugborough 'Lilliput' Weekend Sabrina Brass - Michaelmas Fair, Bishops Castle, 12pm St Pinnock Band - Connon Chapel Harvest Festival, 6pm Stannary Brass Band - Horrabridge Music Festival - St. John's Church, Horrabridge Suffolk Phoenix Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Trentham Brass - Retired caravanners' prom concert - Staffordshire show ground Whitchurch Band - Ellesmere Festival - Ellesmere Wharf, Shropshire, 10am Wilsden Band - Wilsden Village Show, 2pm Woodbridge Excelsior Band - Henham Steam Rally 22 September Old Silkstone Band - Nidderdale Show Wakefield Metropolitan Band - Nidderdale Show, Pately Bridge 23 September Riviera Concert Brass - St. Pauls Church, Preston, 7.30pm 25 September Lympstone Band - Last Night of the Proms - Exmouth Pavilion Maltby Miners' Welfare Band - Maltby Miners' Welfare 26 September Hathern Band - Braunstone Proms, 8pm Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - NHS Concert, Lincoln Cathedral. 7.30pm South London Fellowship Band - St Mary's Church, Wickham Street, Shoulder of Mutton Green, Welling, 7.30pm 27-28 September National Brass Band Championships Lower Section Finals (Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4) - International Conference Centre, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 5LA, 9am. Box office: 01423 537230. Bands seeking rehearsal facilities in Harrogate, click here. 27 September Gosport Silver Band - Not the Last Night of the Proms Concert - St. Mary's Parish Church, Green Road, Alverstoke, 7pm Hade Edge Band - Barkisland, 7pm Hebden Bridge Band + Meadway Choir - Avenue Methodist Church, Sale Leyland Band - Subscription Rooms, Stroud LGB Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Mole Valley Silver Band - Surbiton Festival Muker Silver Band - Shincliffe Church, 7pm Old Silkstone Band - Penistone Paramount, 7.30pm Pemberton Old Band - St Michaels Church, Swinley, 7.30pm PolySteel Band - Churchdown Community Centre, Gloucester Raunds Temperance Band - Castle Theatre, Wellingborough, 7.30pm St Sebastian Wokingham Band - Wokingham Theatre, 7.30pm Stiperstones Brass - Cruckton Ploughing Match, 2pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Stamford Bridge Village Hall SWT Woodfalls Band - Salisbury Arts Centre, 7.30pm Virtuosi GUS Band - Last Night of the Proms - Hinchingbrooke Performing Arts Centre, 7.30pm. Tickets 01480 375678 28 September - 4 October  Melbourne International Festival of Brass 28 September Audley Brass Band - Congleton Park, Congelton, 3pm Eastbourne Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Fakenham Town Band - BBC Radio Norfolk Methodist Songs of Praise - The Thursford Collection, 6.30 pm Harvey's Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Old Silkstone Band - Silkstone Church, 6.30pm Poole Borough Band - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Poyntzpass Silver Band - Scarva Bandstand, 3pm Redbridge Brass Band - Kenneth More Theatre, Ilford, Essex IG1 1BT, 3pm Trimdon Concert Brass Band - Ropner Park, Stockton West Chiltington Silver Band - Chestnut Tree House Winchcombe Concert Brass - Sanders Park, Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm 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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