July 2001  (713)

28 June - 22 July World Music Contest - Kerkrade, Netherlands 30 June - 1 July ** cancelled - Gloucestershire Brass Band Association Entertainment Contest - Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham. Details: 01594-833899 World Brass Band Contest - Roda Hall, Kerkrade, Netherlands 30 June - 7 July 4th International Alpine Music Festival - Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 1 July Brighouse March & Hymn Tune Contest - Brighouse Town Centre (Bethel Street + Town Hall), from 3pm Middleton-Teesdale Contest - Middletone Teesdale, County Durham. 4th section only entertainment contest. Stroud Entertainments Contest Aldbourne Band - Pond Concert, Aldbourne Square, 7.15pm Amersham Band - Memorial Gardens-Old Amersham, 3pm Band of the Royal Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am, 3pm, 7.45pm Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Bandstand, Saltburn, 2pm Bodmin Town Band - Youth Day, Bodmin Bon Accord Silver Band - The Great Inverurie Bike Ride Bradwell Silver Band - Old Stratford Fete Brass Band Lüdinghausen - Musikfest Pferdewiese Lüdinghausen, Germany Brass Band Posaunenchor Wädenswil - Schlosshofkonzert Sommerferien, Switzerland, 7pm Breckland Brass Band - Band Stand, Hunstanton Camborne Town Band - Victoria Gardens, Truro Chalgrove Band - Bike Rally - Berrick Salome, 12pm Cirencester Band - Stanway Picnic, Gloucestershire 1pm Croydon Brass Band - Canbury Gardens, Kingston Cwmaman Institute Silver Band - Aberdare Park East Yorkshire Brass - Filey Festival, 2pm Eastern Iowa Brass Band - Fourth of July Celebration - Clear Lake, Iowa, USA Enderby Band - Melton Park Ensemble de Cuivres Valaisan - Megève, Switzerland Fairfield Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm. Details: 01298 23114 Freckleton Band - Last Night of the Proms - Lytham Green, 6pm Hall Royd Band - Knaresborough Castle Yard, 3pm Harrogate Band - Joe Longster Bandstand, Pateley Bridge, 2.30pm Hatfields of Colchester Band - The Bandstand, Greenwich Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Henmore Brass - Victoria Square, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, p.m. Hitchin Band - Norton Green, nr Letchworth Hot Aire Concert Band - Recreation Field, Pateley Bridge, 3pm Houghton Brass - DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads, Durham, 2.30pm Jackfield Elcock Reisen Band - Shrewsbury Castle Killamarsh Silver Band - Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, 2pm Killamarsh Silver Band - Square and Compass, Darley Dale, 7pm Launceston Town Band - Central Methodist Church, Launceston, 6.30pm Launceston Town Band + Bude Band - Broomhill Manor, 8.00pm Manx Youth Band - St Mary's School Summer Fair, 2pm Muker Silver Band - Gunnerside Council Concert, pm Muller Cleobury Mortimer Band - Telford Park Newstead Welfare Band - Park Stanley Common, Near Ilkeston, 3pm Portsmouth City Band - Governors Green, Portsmouth Rockville Brass Band - Crofton, MD, USA, 6.30pm Rolls-Royce (Derby) Band - Rolls Royce Car Enthusiasts Rally - Towcester Racecourse, Northampton Rothwell Temperance Band - Howden Manor House Royston Town Band - Abbey Green, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, 2.30pm St Albans City Band - Open Gardens Day - Ragged Hall, Gaddesden Row, Hemel Hempstead, p.m. Standish Band - Shevington St Annes Procession Stanley Newmarket Colliery Band - Wetherby Bandstand, 2pm Syston Band - Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester Museum of Technology, Corporation Road, Leicester, 2pm Tadley Band - Eastrop Park, Basingstoke, 3pm Taverham Band - Fairhaven Gardens, South Walsham, nr Gt Yarmouth, 2.00pm Thoresby RJB Band - The Bandstand, St James's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Thornbury Band - The Bandstand, The Regent's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 5.30pm-7pm Thurlstone Brass Band - Peasholme Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Tideswell Band - Wakes Walk, 2.30pm United Norwest Co-op Milnrow Band - Procession of witness & Concert - St Thomas, Newhey Welwyn Garden City Band - Friary Park, Friern Barnet, 2pm Wem Jubilee Band - Shrewsbury Castle White Rose Concert Band - Spa Gardens, Ripon, 3pm Wilton and District Youth Band - Broard Chalke Open Gardens, 2pm Woodbridge Excelsior Brass Band - Oulton Broad Yorkshire Volunteers Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Youth Brass 2000 - Bandstand, Cutts Close, Oakham, 3pm 2 July Band of the Royal Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Bath Spa Band - The Princess, Burnham-on-Sea, 7.45pm Brio Brass - Como Park Pavilion, St Paul, MN, USA, 7pm Fodens Courtois Band - Moreton Hall, Oswestry, Shropshire, 8pm Lofthouse and Middlesmoor Silver Band - Joe Longster Bandstand, Pateley Bridge, 7pm Quintessential Brass - Northern Aldborough Festival - Boroughbridge Church, 11am Quintessential Brass - Northern Aldborough Festival - St James Square, Boroughbridge, 2pm 3 July Band of the Royal Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Brassed Off - a community production of this musical comedy with Hade Edge Brass Band. Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, 7.30pm. Tickets £5.50 to £10 from box office 01484 430528. Farndon & District Brass Band - Waverton Carnival Harper Ensemble - Northern Aldborough Festival - Aldborough Church, Aldborough, North Yorkshire, 7.30pm Manx Concert Brass - Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, 8pm Otley Brass Band - Joe Longster Bandstand, Pateley Bridge, 7pm Saltash Town Band - 25th Anniversary Concert - Working Men's Club, Saltash, Cornwall, 7.30pm. Details: CBBA Section Champions 2001. Tickets from Mrs Marlaine Clarke, tel: 01752 849419 4 July Band of the Royal Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Bodmin Town Band - St.Petrocs Church, Bodmin, 7.30pm Brass Band Burgermusik Luzern B Band- Altstadtkonzert Luzern, Switzerland, 8pm Brassed Off - a community production of this musical comedy with Hade Edge Brass Band. Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, 7.30pm. Tickets £5.50 to £10 from box office 01484 430528. Melbourne Staff Band - UK tour - - Salvation Army Hall, Booth Street, Castleford, 7.30pm. Details: 01405 862269 Saint Louis Brass Band - Fair Saint Louis, Riverfront, Saint Louis, MO, USA, 7pm Summerbridge and Dacre Silver Prize Band - Joe Longster Bandstand, Pateley Bridge, 7pm 4-6 July National Festival of Music For Youth - South Bank, London 5 July Band Of The Island Of Jersey - Howard Davis Park, 8pm Band of the Royal Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Adult Training Centre, Durham, 7.30pm Brassed Off - a community production of this musical comedy with Hade Edge Brass Band. Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, 7.30pm. Tickets £5.50 to £10 from box office 01484 430528. Camborne Town Youth Band - Westminster Abbey Summer Season of Band Concerts 2001 - College Garden, Westminster Abbey, 12.30pm - 2pm. Refreshments available; free admission. All are welcome; collections are taken afterwards towards the running of the concerts, all donations welcome. Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Wakefield, Opera House St.Austell Town Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm 6 July Aunt Bessie's East Yorkshire Brass - Beverley Races, Beverley Racecourse, 6pm Band of the Royal Engineers - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Bodmin Town Band - Heritage Church Service, Bodmin, 7pm Brass Band Burgermusik Luzern B Band - Kurplatz Luzern, Switzerland, 8.15pm Brassed Off - a community production of this musical comedy with Hade Edge Brass Band. Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, 7.30pm. Tickets £5.50 to £10 from box office 01484 430528. Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Wakefield, Opera House Hungerford Town Band - Carnival Queen Crowning - Lamb Hotel, Hungerford, 7pm Jackfield Elcock Reisen Band - St Marys Church, Madeley, Telford, Shropshire Muker Silver Band - East Witton Parish Church, evening Musikgesellschaft Brass Band Auw - Quartierkonzert - Rürtenschwil, Switzerland Sussex Brass - Hawkhurst Royal British Legion, 7.30pm Tideswell Band + Tideswell Male Voice Choir - Tideswell Church, 7.30pm Torbay Brass Band - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 8pm 7 July South of Ireland Band Championships - Clonakilty Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Beoley Fete Annan Town Band - Riding of the Marches Parade, Annan, 12.45pm + 6pm Aveley & Newham - Hextable School, Hextable, Kent, 7.30pm Avonbank (Evesham) Brass Band - Fladbury Walkabout - Fladbury, Worcestershire, 2.30pm Barnetby Silver Band - Winterton Show Basingstoke Silver Band - Wokingham Town Centre, 2pm Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Brandon Carnival, 12.30pm Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Summer Festival - Durham, 2pm Bodmin Town Band - Heritage Day, Bodmin, 2pm Bradwell Silver Band - North Bucks Show, Stowe Breckland Brass Band - Oxborough Hall Brass Band Posaunenchor Flaach - Platzkonzerte - Winterthur/Schaffhausen, Switzerland Brassed Off - a community production of this musical comedy with Hade Edge Brass Band. Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets £5.50 to £10 from box office 01484 430528. Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band - Northern Aldborough Festival - Aldborough Manor, North Yorkshire, 8.30pm Buckhaven & Methil Miners Brass Band - Cowdenbeath Gala Chapeltown Silver Prize Band - High Green Scouts Chester Brass - Saughall Village Fete Cirencester Band - Cotswold Country Fair, Cirencester, Gloucestershire City of Cambridge Brass Band - Trumpington Vicarage Garden Party, 2.30pm City of Stoke Brass - Macclesfield Carnival, Macclesfield Dronfield Band - Coal Aston Gala Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia - Aubonne, Switzerland Ferryhill Town Band - Celebrity Concert featuring Trombone Soloist, Brett Baker - St Johns Church, Shildon, County Durham, 7.30pm. Tickets: £5 Adults, £4 Concessions.... Contact Thinford Nurseries on 01740 655704 or 01388 816871 (Also, the release of New CD containing the works of George Allan). Fulham Brass Band - Parsons Green Fair, 12pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, 7.30pm Hall Royd Band - Gala - Riverside NH, Ilkley Hangleton Band - "A Summer Evening with Hangleton Band" - Hove Park Upper School, Nevill Road, Hove, East Sussex, 7.30pm. Tickets £3.50 in advance, £5 on the door - Children under 12 free. Contact: 01273 233427. Ticket prices includes Interval Strawberries and "bubbles"! Haslemere Town Band - Tilford Fete, 2pm Holymoorside Band - Ambergate Carnival Killamarsh Silver Band - St Giles Church Hall, Killamarsh, 7.30pm Knaresborough Silver Band - Joe Longster Bandstand, Pateley Bridge, 3pm Leicestershire Co-op Snibston Charnwood Brass - Co-op Gala - Stoughton Liss Band - St Mary's Fete, Liss, 2pm Marshside Brass Band - Gala - St John's Primary School, Crossens, Southport Menai Bridge Band Porthaethwy - Fair - Ysgol Y Borth North Fylde Brass Band - United Reform Church Garden Party - Rossall Road, Cleveleys Ocean Brass - Fritham Nursing Home Fete Pershore Midsummer Brass - Pershore, Worcestershire. A non-competitive brass festival with local and championship bands. Pershore Abbey and the Angel Inn, 10.30am - 10.00pm. Details: Tel: 01386-554955 Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Eagland Hill Coffee Feast, 2pm Portsmouth City Band - Bedhampton Fete, 2pm Riddings Band - Wessington Methodist Chapel, 2.30pm Rockville Brass Band - Laurel Lake, Laurel, MD, USA, 2pm St Albans City Band - North Watford Show Seaford Silver Band - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Silk Brass - Macclesfield Carnival Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Goodnestone Fete, 1.30pm Solent Brass Band - Newton Valence Village Fete, Alton, Hants, p.m. Standish Band - Rufford St Marys Procession Swinton & District Excelsior Band - Orchard Fields, Old Malton, Yorkshire, 2.30pm Thorntons Brass Ensemble - Chatsworth House Thundersley Brass Band - The Bandstand, The Regent's Park, London, 12.30pm-2pm and 5.30pm-7pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Street Fayre, Letwell Travelsphere Holidays Band - Eastbourne Bandstand, Eastbourne, 3pm Wantage Silver Band - Arts Festival Concert - Wantage Woodbridge Excelsior Band - Quay Church Flower Festival - Quay St, Woodbridge, 2pm-4pm 8 July York March Contest - York City Centre. Details from sam@kind3.freeserve.co.uk or Tel: 01904 426909 YHBBA Hardraw Scar Contest - The Green Dragon Inn, Hardraw, Hawes, N. Yorkshire (Event cancelled) Amersham Band - Jordan's Rotary Club Concert, St Mary's School, Gerrards Cross, 3pm Arrow Valley Brass - Abbey Park, Evesham Ashbourne Town Band - Memorial Gardens, Ashbourne, 3.00pm Aveley & Newham - Music Week - Silver End Village, Near Braintree, Essex, 2pm to 5pm Avonbank (Evesham) Brass Band - Fladbury Walkabout - Fladbury, Worcestershire, 2.30pm Band of the Army Air Corps - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am, 3pm, 7.45pm Barnsley Town Concert Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Bath Spa Band - Royal Victoria Park, Bath, 3.30pm Bedford Town Band - Emberton Park, 2pm Blackley Band - Glossop Band Club, 8pm Blewbury Brass Band - St Birinus' Pilgrimage - Churn Knob, Blewbury, 12pm Bodmin Town Band - Padstow Quay, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Brass Band Posaunenchor Flaach - FEG Wetzikon, Switzerland, 7pm Breckland Brass Band - Cherry Tree Public House, Soham, 7pm Burbage Band - Buxton Wells Dressing Celebration Reed & Brass Band - Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Cirencester Band - Cotswold Country Fair, Cirencester, Gloucestershire City of Bristol Brass Band - John Coles Park, Chippenham. 3.15pm City of Cambridge Brass Band - Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, 2.30pm City of Lincoln Band - Dysart Park, Grantham, 3pm Clifton and Lightcliffe Band - Butties and Brass - Piece Hall, Halifax, 12.30pm, free entry Cobham Band - Walled Gardens, Thames Street, Sunbury, 3pm Constantine Silver Band - Poldu Home Carolare, 2.30pm Coventry Festival Band - RAF Club, Lythalls Lane, 2pm Croft Silver Band - Melton New Park Bandstand, Melton Mowbray Crystal Palace Band - Hever Castle, Edenbridge, Kent, 2pm Dronfield Band - Dronfield Gala Durham Constabulary Band - Four Nations Football Final - Durham Eagley Band - Westhoughton Carnival, p.m. East Yorkshire Brass - Burnby Hall, 2pm Ever Ready Band - Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, 8pm, Box Office 017687 74411 Felling Band - Whitburn Village, 2pm Ferryhill Town Band - South Park, Darlington, 2pm Friary Guildford Brass Band - Wonersh Fete Grangemoor Brass Band - Recreation Field, Pateley Bridge, 3pm Greenwich Concert Band - The Bandstand, Greenwich Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Hathersage Brass Band - Bandstand, Hathersage Hepworth Band - The Bandstand, St James's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Horsforth and Leeds Silver Band - Horsforth Hall Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Hungerford Town Band - Inkpen House, 2.30pm Jersey Premier Brass - Howard Davis Park, 8pm Killamarsh Silver Band - Concert in the Park - Queen's Park, Chesterfield, 2pm Knaresborough Band - Castle Yard, Knaresborough, 3pm Langbaurgh Brass - Saltburn Bandstand, 2.30pm Lancashire Life Morecambe Band - Songs of Praise - Morecambe Promenade, 2.30pm Leicestershire Co-op Snibston Charnwood Brass - Oakham Park, Cutts Close, Oakham, 3pm Letchworth Garden City Band - Willian Fair - Willian, 2pm Lincolnshire Concert Band - The Lawn , Union Road , Lincoln, 2.30 p.m. Liskeard Silver Band - Rose Gardens, Looe, 7pm March Brass 2000 - Abbey Green, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, 2.30pm Marshside Brass Band - Walking Day - St Michael's Church, Ashton, Preston New Buckenham Silver Band - Sealife Bandstand, Great Yarmouth Sea Front, 2.30pm Newstead Welfare Brass Band - Bandstand, Newark Castle, 2.30pm North Fylde Brass Band - Marine Gardens, Fleetwood, p.m. ntl Skelmanthorpe Band - St Aiden's Church Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Newton Abbot Oughtibridge Brass Band - Dore Show - Old School & Methodist Hall, Savage Lane, Dore Pennine Brass - People's Park Halifax, 2pm - 4pm. Free concert Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Songs of Praise, Hambleton, 6.30pm Porthywaen Silver Band - Last Night of the Proms, Welshpool, 7.30pm Rayleigh Brass - Brandy Hole Yacht Club Regatta, Hullbridge, 2pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Village Green, 2pm Riddings B Band - West Hallam, 3pm Rivington and Adlington Band - Botanic Gardens, Churchtown, Southport, 2.15pm Rolls-Royce (Derby) Band - Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Bridlington Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Barmouth Music Festival Sacriston Colliery Band - DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads, Durham, 2.30pm St Sebastian (Wokingham) Brass Band - Dinton Pastures Shirland Welfare Training Band - McArthur Glen Designer Outlet, Mansfield, 12pm Stalham Brass Band - Re-opening of Barton Broad, 12pm Standish Band - Euxton Combined Churches Procession Stowmarket Concert Band - The Waites, St Ives, Cambs, 2.30-4.30pm Thorntons Brass - The Bandstand, The Regent's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 5.30pm-7pm Tideswell Band - Square & Compass, Darley Dale, 7.30pm United Norwest Co-op Milnrow Band - International Co-op Day, Manchester Cathedral Weaver Building Group Brass Band - Music In The Gardens - Brodsworth Hall, Brodsworth, 2.30pm. Details: 01302 722598 Welwyn Garden City Band - Riverside Park, St Neots, 2.30pm Whaley Bridge Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm. Details: 01298 23114 Woking Brass Band - Craft fair - High Clere Castle, Hampshire, 12pm Yorkshire Evening Post Band - Canal Gardens, Rounday, Leeds, 2.30pm 9 July Band of the Army Air Corps - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Burtle Silver Band - The Princess, Burnham-on-Sea, 7.45pm 9-14 July Band directors' course - National Association of Independent Musical Italian Bands 10 July Band of the Army Air Corps - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Boswells Brass Quintet - The Bandstand, Kensington Gardens, London, 5.30pm - 7pm Cubbington Silver Band - Randolph Turpin Memorial unveiling - Market Square, Warwick, 7.30pm Northop Silver Band + Trelawnyd Male Voice Choir - Ruthin Festival - Theatr John Ambrose, Ysgol Brynhyfryd, Mold Road , Ruthin, 7.30pm. Tickets £6 Saint Louis Brass Band - Hazelwood, MO, USA, 7.30pm 11 July Band of the Army Air Corps - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Bakewell Silver Band - Bakewell Hoyle Court, 7pm 12 July Band Of The Island Of Jersey - St Helier Precinct/Royal Square, 8pm Band of the Army Air Corps - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Boys of America Finnish Brass Band - Northland Nordic Music Association Conference - Edgewater Hotel, Duluth, Minnesota, USA, 6pm Chelmsford Star Silver Band - Westminster Abbey Summer Season of Band Concerts 2001 - College Garden, Westminster Abbey, 12.30pm - 2pm. Refreshments available; free admission. All are welcome; collections are taken afterwards towards the running of the concerts, all donations welcome. 13 July Band of the Army Air Corps - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Bodmin Town Band - Priory Lawn, Bodmin, 7.45pm Dronfield Band - St Swithins, Homesfield Fishburn Band - Fishburn Workingmen's Club Hall Royd Band - Retired Caravanners', Ilkley Ipswich Over 50s Brass Band - Felixstowe Triangle, 2pm-4pm Lympstone South West Telecoms Brass Band - Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth, 8.00pm New Forest Brass Band - Waterside Arts Festival - Hythe Promenade, 7.30pm Tideswell Band - Peak Forest Church, 7.30pm Torbay Brass Band - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 8pm 14 July Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Police Headquarters, Leek Wootton, 12pm Amersham Band - Amersham Carnival, 12pm Annan Town Band - Eastriggs Gala, 11am Basingstoke Silver Band - St Mark's Church Fete, Kempshott, 2pm Bearpark & Esh Colliery Band - Miners Gala, Durham Beaumaris Band - Summer Gala Concert, Canolfan Beaumaris, 7pm Bedworth Brass - The Bandstand, St James's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Betteshanger Brass Band - Eastry Fete Bradwell Silver Band - New Bradwell School Fete Brighton Silver Band - Hurstpierpoint Procession, 1pm Burbage Band - Buxton Carnival Chapeltown Silver Prize Band - Harthill Carnival Cholsey Silver Band - Woodcote Veteran Transport Rally Cottingham Band + Simone Rebello - Wye College, Hull, 7.30pm Crystal Palace Band - Old Coulsdon Village Fair, Grange Park, Coulsdon, 2pm Cwmaman Institute Silver Band - Tenby Dronfield Band - Chesterfield Market Place, 1pm Durham Constabulary Band - Service for the Courts - Durham Castle and Cathedral Ellesborough Silver Band - Flower Show - The Lee, near Wendover, 2pm Epsom and Ewell Silver Band - Flower Show - Chipstead, 2pm Ever Ready Band - Durham Miners Gala, 9am Farndon & District Brass Band - Farndon Rushbearing Fete Ferndown Concert Brass Band - Bandstand, Pleasure Gardens, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm 1st Old Boys Association Band - Cornmarket, Belfast, 2pm Fishburn Band - Durham Miners' Gala - Fishburn/Coxhoe/Durham Golborne Brass Band - Stockon Heath Walking Day Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Lowestoft, Marina Theatre Gwernaffield Silver Band - The Bandstand, The Groves, Chester, 2pm. Details: 01244 402446 Hathersage Brass Band - Village Fair, Village Green, Pilsley Hebden Bridge Brass Band - Eastmorton Gala Holymoorside Band - Ashgate Summer Fayre Killamarsh Silver Band - Lake District Tour - Market Cross, Carlisle, 10.30am - 3.30pm Knottingley Concert Brass - Patron's Concert, KCB's 25th Anniversary - King's High School, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, 7.30pm Liskeard Silver Band - St Cleer Memorial Hall Carnival, 4pm Liss Band - Petersfield, 7pm Lympstone South West Telecoms Brass Band - Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth, 8.00pm Melbourne Town Band - Melbourne Fete and Carnival, 2pm Menai Bridge Band Porthaethwy - Farmers' Concert - Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni, 6.30pm North Fylde Brass Band - Weeton Gala Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Newton Abbot Carnival Parramatta City Band - Amphitheatre, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, 10am Patcham Silver Band - Crawley Bandstand, 11am Potters Bar Town Band - Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, 1pm Rothwell Temperance Band - Brass in the Park - Rothwell Park Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Armitage Church Fete Rushmoor Concert Band - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am, 3pm St Breward Silver Band - St Breward Church Fete, 2pm Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - Alkham Fete, 2pm Stalham Brass Band - Stalham Middle School, 7.30pm Stannary Brass Band - Horrabridge School Tadley Band - SeeABILITY Fete - Heather House, Fleet, 2pm Taverham Band - Exploding Brass 2001! Taverham Hall School, Taverham, Norwich 6.30pm 3rd Carrickfergus Band - Victoria Park, Belfast, 2.30pm Thurcroft Welfare Band - Greenarbour School, Thurcroft Travelsphere Holidays Band - Night at the Proms - Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, evening. Details: 01273 744 773 Trumpet-Fest - Toronto, Canada United Co-Op Band (Crewe) - Weston Fete Vernon Building Society Poynton Brass Band - David Lewis Centre, Alderly Edge,1.30pm Waltham St Lawrence Silver Band - Burnham Carnival, 12.30pm Weaver Building Group Brass Band - Thurgoland Gala, Thurgoland, 2pm Welwyn Garden City Band - Bennington Village Fair, 2pm Whitehaven Brass Band - Garden Fete - Newlands, Workington, 2pm Wilton and District Youth Band - Nunton Fete, 2pm Woburn Sands Band - Proms type concert - Haynes, near Bedford, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01908 643085 Yiewsley and West Drayton Band - Hayes Carnival 15 July Brass Band Competition - Belvoir Castle, nr Grantham, Lincolnshire. Details: 01476 870262 Arrow Valley Brass - Abbey Park, Evesham Ashbourne Town Band - The Green, Tissington, Derbyshire, 3.00pm Ashgrove Brass - Belfast Castle Estate, Belfast, 3pm Aycliffe & Brancepeth Band - DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads, Durham, 2.30pm Band of the Royal Signals - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am, 3pm, 7.45pm Basingstoke Silver Band - Millennium Brass Open Air Concert, Tadley Rugby Club, 2pm Bedford Town Band - Houghton & Wyton, 5pm Bendix Kingswood Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Birchington Silver Band - Memorial Bandstand, Deal, 2pm Bodmin Town Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Breckland Brass Band - Band Stand, Wisbech, 3pm Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band + Cheshire Youth Brass Band - Arley Hall, Northwich, Cheshire, 7pm. Tickets £10 and £7.50. Details: 01925-601112 Buxton Council of Churches Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm. Details: 01298 23114 Cantium Brass - St Stephens Strawberry Tea, Canterbury, 3pm Chatteris Town Band - The Waits, St Ives, 2.30pm Cholsey Silver Band - Woodcote Veteran Transport Rally City of Bristol Brass Band - Grove Park, Weston Super Mare. 2pm City of Coventry Brass - Memorial Park, Coventry, 2.30pm Clitheroe Town Band - Garden Festival, Stonyhurst College Croydon Brass Band - Golders Hill Park, Hampstead Croydon Symphonic Band - The Bandstand, The Regent's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 5.30pm-7pm Cwmamon Institute Silver Band - Bedwellty Park, Tredegar, 3pm Darley Dale Band - Wensley Field Farm Fete, Derbyshire, 2pm Derwent Brass + Steven Mead - Burton-on-Trent Town Hall, 7.30pm Eagley Band - Last Drop Village, Bromley X, Bolton, p.m. East London Brass - Herne Bay, 2.30pm Eld Lane Baptist and SA Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Enderby Band - Holycroft Park, Hinckley, 2.30pm Friary Guildford Brass Band - Cab Air Concert at British Grand Prix Frome Town Band - Victoria Park, Frome, 3pm Fulbourn & Teversham RBL Band - Riverside Park, Huntingdon, 2.30pm Granby High School Band - Knaresborough Castle Yard, 3pm Hatfields of Colchester Band - Stisted Hall Garden Party Hungerford Town Band - Newbury Bandstand Jubilee Brass Band (Oxford) - Hinksey Park, Oxford, 3pm Kibworth Band - Abington Park, Northampton, 3pm Killamarsh Silver Band - Lake District Tour - Market Square, Keswick, 11.15am - 12.15pm Killamarsh Silver Band - Lake District Tour - Market Hall, Appleby, 3pm - 4pm Lancashire Life Morecambe Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Langley Park Colliery Band - Town Park bandstand, Beamish Museum, 2pm Launceston Town Band - Looe Quay, 2.30pm + 7.00pm Leyland Band - Belton Park, Doncaster, 7pm. Liskeard Silver Band - Torpoint Civic Parade, 10.30am Liskeard Silver Band - Rose Gardens, Looe, 7pm Lofthouse & Middlesmoor Silver Band - Recreation Field, Pateley Bridge, 3pm Manshead School Band - Grove House Gardens, Dunstable, 3pm Manx Youth Band/Manx Concert Brass - Annual Gala Concert - Royal Hall, Villa Marina, Douglas, Isle of Man, 7.30pm Marshside Brass Band - Botanic Gardens, Churchtown, Southport, 2.15pm Mayfield Band - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 2.30pm Melton Borough Band - Melton New Park Bandstand, Melton Mowbray Muller Cleobury Mortimer Band - West Park, Wolverhampton Newmarket Town Band - Riverside Park, St Neots, 2.30pm North Fylde Brass Band - Fleetwood Tram Sunday - St Peters Church Grounds, Lord Street, Fleetwood Ocean Brass - Hampshire Cricket Club, West End Pennine Brass - Halifax Festival - People's Park Halifax, 2pm - 5pm. Free multi-cultural Arts Festival, encompassing varied musical groups from Brass Band to Bhangra Peterborough Concert Band - Bandstand, Cutts Close, Oakham, 3pm Phoenix Concert Band - Dartmouth Park, Morley, Leeds, 2.30pm Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Shireshead Church, 6.30pm Poole Borough Band - Compton Acres, Poole, 2pm Porthywaen Silver Band - Ellesmere Regatta, 1pm Portishead Town Band - Greville Smyth Park, Bristol, 3pm Potters Bar Town Band - Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, 1.30pm Les Quennevais School Band - Howard Davis Park, Jersey, 8pm Ratby Band - Belvoir Castle Riddings Band - Bandstand, Newark Castle, 2.30pm Riddings Band - Riddings Community Centre, evening Sacriston Colliery Band - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Saxilby Youth Band - The Lawn, Union Road, Lincoln, 2.30 p.m. Sellers International Band - "Midsummer Proms" - Barlborough Hall (off Junction 30 M1), 3pm. Tickets: 01909-509918 Sheffield Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Somersham Town Band - Abbey Green, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, 2.30pm Staines Band - Ashby Lammas, Staines, 3pm Stamford Brass Band - Dysart Park, Grantham, 3pm Stanley Newmarket Band - Pudsey Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Stannary Brass Band - Tavistock Meadows Lions Fun-day Stannington Brass - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2pm Sussex Brass Band - Alexandra Park, Hastings, 3pm Swinton & District Excelsior Band - Sewerby Park, Sewerby Hall, Bridlington, 1pm Tewit Youth Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Tideswell Band - RSPCA Dog Show, Buxton Vernon Building Society Poynton Brass Band - Middlewood Way, Poynton, 1.30pm Watership Brass - Millennium Brass Event - Tadley Rugby Club, 12pm - 6pm Welwyn Garden City Band - Wheathampstead Village Day Whitehaven Brass Band - School Fete - St Bridgets School, Brigham, 2.30pm Wilsden Band - Golden Acre Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Woodbridge Excelsior Brass Band - Aldeburgh Yeovil Town Band - The Bandstand, St James's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Yiewsley and West Drayton Band - St Edmunds Church, Yeading Lane, 3pm Yorkshire Building Society Band - Beltonaires Open Air Concert- Picnic In The Park - Belton Playing Field, Junction 2 M180, 7pm. Details: (01427) 872635 16 July Band concert - The Princess, Burnham-on-Sea, 7.45pm Band of the Royal Signals - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Ipswich Over 50s Brass Band - Parkinsons Society - Whepstead Hall, 2pm-4pm Oldpark Silver Band - Sir Thomas & Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 7.45pm 17 July Band of the Royal Signals - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Foss Dyke Band - INSOL International Conference, The Guildhall, London, 6.30pm 18 July Band of the Royal Signals - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Constantine Silver Band - Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, 8pm Driffield Band - Driffield Show Melbourne Town Band - Long Lane Fete, Long Lane, Derbyshire St Ronans Silver Band + Newtongrange Silver Band - Cleikum Centenary Concert, Memorial Hall, Innerleithen Smithills School Full Departmental Concert - Smithills School Hall, 7.30pm Spennymoor Town Band - Concert - Bishop Auckland Town Hall, 8pm. Contact: (01388)812814 19 July Band Of The Island Of Jersey - Howard Davis Park, 8pm Band of the Royal Signals - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Cranbrook Town Band - Angley School, 8pm CWA Brass - Sir Thomas & Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 7.45pm Darley Dale Band - Darley Dale Underhall, 7pm Freckleton Band - Coach & Horses Concert (Ponky's), 8pm Lake Wobegon Brass Band - UK Tour - (with Bournemouth Concert Brass) - Guildhall, Winchester, 7.30pm Manx Youth Band - Villa Marina, Royal Hall, Douglas, 8pm North London Concert Band - Westminster Abbey Summer Season of Band Concerts 2001 - College Garden, Westminster Abbey, 12.30pm - 2pm. Refreshments available; free admission. All are welcome; collections are taken afterwards towards the running of the concerts, all donations welcome. St Keverne Youth Band - Mullion Cornish Evening, 7.30pm 19-29 July Queensland Biennial Festival of Music - Australia 20 July Band of the Royal Signals - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Ipswich Over 50s Brass Band - Felixstowe Triangle, 2pm-4pm Newstead Welfare Band - Evening Proms - Newstead Abbey, 7.45pm RAF Regiment Band - St Andrew's Church, Penrith, Cumbria, 7.30pm. Tickets £7.50 from 01768-864608 St Keverne Band - Ponsongath Tea Treat St Ronans Silver Band - Centenary of the Festival of the Cleikum - Innerleithen Torbay Brass Band - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 8pm 21 July Ashington Miner's Picnic - Ashington and Woodhorn Colliery, Northumberland. A march contest and parade. Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Shakespeare Hospice, Shottery, 2pm Ashover Band - Sheldon Village Green, Derbyshire, 2pm Band of the Inns of Court and City Yeomanry of the Royal Yeomanry - The Bandstand, St James's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Band of the Wiltshire Constabulary - The Bandstand, The Regent's Park, London, 12.30pm-2pm and 5.30pm-7pm Belper Town Band - Elton Jubilee Field, Derbyshire, 3pm Bodmin Town Band - Bodmin Lions Country Fayre Breckland Brass Band - Horinger Fete Constantine Silver Band - Constantine Cottage Garden Show, 2.30pm Copthorne Silver Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 2pm East Riding Youth Brass Band - Summer Concert Eastbourne Silver Band - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Fishburn Band - Northumberland Miners' Gala - Ashington Fulham Brass Band - Methodist Church, King Street, Hammersmith Guernsey Concert Band - Summer Concert - St James Concert Hall Harrogate Band - Ripon Racecourse Hatfields of Colchester Band - Rowhedge Fun Day Hebden Bridge Brass Band - Little Theatre, Hebden Bridge Holymoorside Band - Birchover Carnival, 2pm Killamarsh Silver Band - Fete - St James Church, South Anston, South Yorkshire, 2pm Laganvale Band - Sir Thomas & Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 2pm Lake Wobegon Brass Band - UK Tour - Welsh National Folk Museum, Cardiff, 11.30am Lake Wobegon Brass Band - UK Tour - Bishop of Llandaff High School, Cardiff, 7.30pm Liskeard Silver Band - Lamellion Hospital Fete, 12.30pm Liskeard Silver Band - Menheniot Carnival & Fete, 2pm Murton Colliery Brass Band - Penshaw Carnival, 12pm New Buckenham Silver Band - Fete - Shelfanger Village Hall, 2pm Poole Borough Band - Pine Walk, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Porthywaen Silver Band - Cae Glas Park, 2pm St Breward Silver Band - St Breward Carnival, 6pm St Dennis Band - St Dennis Carnival Scarborough Citadel Band - Music for a Summer Evening - The Citadel, Alma Parade , Scarborough, 7.15pm. Donation tickets £4.50 (concessions £3.50). Contact: 01723 367339 South London Fellowship Band - Folkestone Salvation Army Stannary Brass Band - Quethiock Horticultural Show + Tavistock Carnival Tideswell Band - Concert & Well Blessings - Stoney Middleton, 3pm Watership Brass - Ascot Rotary Club - Sunninghill Church, 7pm 21 July - 25 August Dartington International Summer School - various brass courses - Dartington Hall, Totnes 22 July ASDA Stocksbridge Band - Piece Hall, Halifax, 12.30pm ASDA Stocksbridge Band - Dobcross Band Club, Dobcross, 8pm Audley Brass - Hayling Dean Penkridge, 2:30pm Aveley & Newham - Royal Parks - Greenwich Park Bandstand, South London, 3pm to 4.30pm and 6pm to 7.30pm Aycliffe & Brancepeth Band - Town Park bandstand, Beamish Museum, 1.45pm and 3.00pm Bakewell Silver Band - The Nook, Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, 4pm Balderstone Brass - Castle Bandstand, Clitheroe, 2.30pm Band of the Royal Marines - Memorial Bandstand, Deal, 2pm Bilsdale Silver Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Bristol East Band - Brandon Hill, Bristol, 3pm BT Band - Glossop Band Club - 8pm Camborne Town Band - Costantine, "Brass on the Grass", 6.30pm Chester Summer Music Festival Cheshire Youth Showcase, Youth Bands from all over Cheshire - Grosvenor Park, Chester, 12pm - 5pm Cirencester Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire City of Bristol Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Cottenham Brass Band - Abbey Green, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, 2.30pm Coventry Salvation Army Band - Allesley Park, Coventry, 3pm Crosskeys Silver Band - Duck Race and Family Fun Day - Crosskeys Band Room and Rugby Club Grounds, Pandy Park, Crosskeys, 2pm Croydon Brass Band - Clerkenwell Festival Crystal Palace Band - The Bandstand, Horniman Gardens, Forest Hill, London SE23, 2.30pm Darley Dale Band - Flying Cinders, Stanton in the Peak, Derbyshire, 7pm Drighlington 10-piece Band - Dartmouth Park, Morley, Leeds, 2.30pm East London Brass - West Ham Park, 3pm Eccleston Brass Band - Botanic Gardens, Churchtown, Southport, 2.15pm Eltham Concert Band - The Bandstand, St James's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Ely City Military Band - Riverside Park, St Neots, 2.30pm Ferndown Concert Brass - Kingston Lacy NT Gardens, Wimborne, 11am and 2pm 1st Old Boys Association Band - Sir Thomas & Lady Dixon Park, Belfast, 2pm Friendly (Sowerby Bridge) Band, Horsforth Hall Park, Horsforth, Leeds, 2.30pm Gawthorpe Youth Brass Band - Springhead, Rothwell, Leeds, 2.30pm Glynde and Beddingham Band - Alexandra Park, Hastings, 3pm Harborough Band - Welland Park Bandstand Harrogate Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2pm Holymoorside Band - Druid Inn, Birchover Ibstock Brick Brass - Rainbows Charity Concert - Burleigh College, Loughborough, p.m. Jackfield Elcock Reisen Band - Telford Town Park Jubilee Brass Band (Oxford) - Mill Meadows, Henley-on-Thames, 2.30pm Kibworth Band - Melton New Park Bandstand, Melton Mowbray Kohima Band ~ The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am, 3pm, 7.45pm Lake Wobegon Brass Band - UK Tour - St James Church, Birstwith, 4pm Launceston Town Band - Tamer Lakes, 2.30pm Leigh Silver Band - Leyland Park, Wigan Liss Band - Manor Fete, Ludshott, 2pm Lydgate Band - The Bandstand, The Groves, Chester, 2pm. Details: 01244 402446 Melton Borough Band - Dysart Park, Grantham, 3pm Newstead Welfare Band - Queens Park, Chesterfield, 2.30pm North Leeds Concert Band - Canal Gardens, Leeds, 2.30pm Otley Brass Band - Golden Acre Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Patcham Silver Band - Blatchington Windmill, 2pm Poole Borough Band - Pine Walk, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Poulton Concert Band - Victoria Park, Frome, 3pm RBL (Spalding) Band - Memorial Gardens, Bourne, 3pm Reeth Brass Band - West Witton Methodist Church, 6.30pm Rogerstone Band - Belle Vue Park, 3pm St Albans City Band - Grove House Gardens, Dunstable, 3pm St Austell Town Band - Princess Pavillions, Falmouth Salvation Army Band - Ashby Lammas, Staines, 3pm Seaham Philharmonic Brass - DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads, Durham, 2.30pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Appley Park, Isle of Wight, 3pm Stalham Band - Lessingham Village Hall Fete, 2pm Stamford Brass - Whitefriars Home, Stamford Standish Band - Jubilee Park Stocksbridge Brass Band - Butties and Brass - Piece Hall, Halifax, 12.30pm, free entry Stowmarket Concert Band - Proms Concert, Recreation Ground, Stowmarket, Suffolk, 7.45pm. Free. Sussex Brass - Classic Car Show - Battle, 2pm Swinton & District Excelsior Band - Carnival procession and Fete - Cayton, North Yorkshire, 11.30am onwards Thomas Coaches Mid Rhondda Band - Bedwellty Park, Tredegar, 3pm Tideswell Band - Fountain Square, Tideswell, 7pm Tintwistle Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm. Details: 01298 23114 Trent Concert Band - Bandstand, Newark Castle, 2.30pm Wakefield Metropolitan Band - Pudsey Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Wantage Silver Band - Wantage Bandstand, Manor Road, Wantage, 3pm Water Band - Water school fair - Water Waterbeach Brass Band - The Waits, St Ives, 2.30pm Whitehaven Brass Band - Field Day - Irton, 12pm Whitworth Vale & Healey Band - Centre Stage - Centre Vale Park, Todmorden, 3pm Wilfreda Beehive Hatfield Band - Thorne Memorial Park, South Parade, Thorne, 3pm Worcester Concert Brass - Evesham Bandstand Yiewsley and West Drayton Band - Barra Hall Park, Hayes, 2pm York Railway Institute Band + York Golden Rail Band - Boar Garden, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, 2pm - 5pm 22-27 July Brass Band Summer Music School, course director Richard Evans - Kirkham Grammar School - Details and applications: 01772-684462 22-28 July Brass Band Week Arosa - Kultur Kreis Arosa, Switzerland 23 July Kohima Band ~ The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Lake Wobegon Brass Band (USA) + ASDA Stocksbridge Band - The Victory Club, Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, 8pm. Details: 01706 818060 St Dennis Band - Trewan Hall, 8.30pm Tadley Band - Ambrose Allen Centre, Tadley, 8pm Taunton Concert Band - The Princess, Burnham-on-Sea, 7.45pm 24 July Boswells Brass Quintet - The Bandstand, Kensington Gardens, London, 5.30pm - 7pm Boys of America Finnish Brass Band - Noontime Concert on Northrop Plaza - Northrop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 12pm Kohima Band ~ The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am 25 July Black Dyke Band - Kings Lynn Festival. Details: 01553 767557 Brass Band Concert - Spa Grand Hall, Scarborough, 7.45pm Kohima Band ~ The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Lake Wobegon Brass Band - UK Tour - Sandringham Flower Show, Sandringham House, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, 2pm Lancashire Life Morecambe Band - Lancaster Market Square, a.m./p.m. Lympstone South West Telecoms Brass Band - 'Brass at the Pavilion' - Exmouth Pavilion, 7.30pm St Keverne Band - Manaccan BBQ 26 July Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire Haslemere Town Band - Westminster Abbey Summer Season of Band Concerts 2001 - College Garden, Westminster Abbey, 12.30pm - 2pm. Refreshments available; free admission. All are welcome; collections are taken afterwards towards the running of the concerts, all donations welcome. Kohima Band ~ The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble - "Once upon a Time in America" - Ryedale Festival, St Peter's Church, Norton, Yorkshire National Youth Brass Band of Wales - Chepstow Leisure Centre, Crossway Green, Chepstow, 7.30pm. Tickets: £4 and £3, Box office: 01291-635745 Slaidburn Silver Band - Brass At The Bounty, Hark To Bounty Inn, Slaidburn 7.15 pm 27 July City of Bristol Brass Band - Lymphoma Association fundraiser - Town Hall, Chipping Sodbury, 7.30pm. Tickets £5, concessions £2.50. All proceeds to the Lymphopma Association (cancer) Ever Ready Band - Durham Town Hall, 7.30pm Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire Ipswich Over 50s Brass Band - Felixstowe Triangle, 2pm-4pm Kohima Band ~ The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm National Youth Brass Band of Wales - Fishguard School Concert Hall, Fishguard, 8pm. Tickets: £5, children free. Box office: 01348-873612 St Keverne Band - Coverack Carnival Torbay Brass Band - Princess Gardens, Torquay, 8pm 27 July - August 5 Lieksa Brass Week and International Tuba Competition - Lieska, Finland 28 July Basingstoke Silver Band - St Mary Bourne Flower Show, 2pm Black Dyke Band - Harrogate Festival - Royal Hall, Harrogate. Details: 01423 537230 Brass in the Park - Queens Park, Burnley, 1pm. Details: 01282 664400 Cobham Band - Thames Ditton Regatta - Ditton Skiff & Punting Club's boat house, Albany Reach, Queen's Road, 2pm Cranbrook Town Band - Pett Flower show - Pett, Hastings, 2pm Felling Brass Band - Gateshead Summer Flower Festival, Wickham Highway, Gateshead Flowers Band - The Bandstand, The Regent's Park, London, 12.30pm-2pm and 5.30pm-7pm Fulham Brass Band - Charity Concert - St Mary's Church, Putney High Street, London SW15, 7pm. Tel. 07771-820380 or 020-8648-4248 for details Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire Household Division Musicians Association Band - The Bandstand, St James's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Hungerford Town Band - British Legion Fun Day, 2pm Lancashire Life Morecambe Band - Lancashire Agricultural Show - Chorley, from 11am Launceston Town Band - Warleggan Carnival, Warleggan, 6.30pm Leigh Silver Band - Summer Fayre - Hourigan House, Leigh Musikgesellschaft Jenaz - Sturmaboden-Fest - Jenaz, Switzerland National Youth Brass Band of Wales - Blackwood Miners' Institute, 3pm. Tickets: £4 and £3. Box office: 01495-227206 Pilling Jubilee Silver Band - Pilling Coffee Feast, 1.45pm St Breward Silver Band - St Teath Carnival, 6.30pm Sandhurst Silver Band - Hurley Village Fete Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band - New Romney Country Fair Stalham Band - Horning Vicarage Gardens, 6.30 Stannary Brass Band - Latchley Show Sussex Brass - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Templemore Band - Wedderburn Park, Belfast, 2.30pm Water Band - Queens Park, Burnley 28 July - August 5 Sedburgh International Summer School - MD Frank Renton, tutors including Ian Porterhouse, James Shepherd, David Childs, Sandy Smith, Steve Sykes, Nick Hudson, Simone Rebello - Swansea University. Details: International Summer School, PO Box 53, Penarth, Mid Glamorgan, CF64 5XY, Tel: 02920-704325 29 July Armthorpe/Elmfield Band - Thorne Memorial Park, South Parade, Thorne, 3pm Aunt Bessie's East Yorkshire Brass - Hornsea Memorial Gardens, Hornsea 2pm Avonbank (Evesham) Brass Band - Evesham Park, 2.30pm Band Of The Island Of Jersey - Minden Place, Jersey, 11.30am Banks Brass Band - Botanic Gardens, Churchtown, Southport, 2.15pm Barnoldswick Brass - Castle Bandstand, Clitheroe, 2.30pm Blewbury Brass Band - Wantage Bandstand, Manor Road, Wantage, 3pm Bodmin Town Band - Victoria Gardens - Truro, 2.30pm Bollington Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm. Details: 01298 23114 Boxted Methodist Silver Band - Castle Park, Colchester, 3pm Bulkington Silver Band - The Castle Grounds , Tamworth Castle , Tamworth. Details: 01827 709618 Central Band of the Royal British Legion - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am, 3pm, 7.45pm Christchurch and Highcliffe Band - The Bandstand, The Regent's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 5.30pm-7pm Cirencester Band - Cheltenham City of Bristol Brass Band - Blake Gardens, Bridgwater, 3pm City of Canterbury Band - Penchester Pavilion, Dover, 2.30pm City of Lincoln Band - Memorial Gardens, Bourne, 3pm City of Oxford Silver Band - Abbey Gardens, Abingdon, 3pm Cockerton Silver Band - Town Park bandstand, Beamish Museum, 2pm Downshire Brass - Victoria Park, Belfast, 3pm Dunston Silver Band - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Eagley Band - Centre Stage - Centre Vale Park, Todmorden, 3pm East Sussex Concert Band - Alexandra Park, Hastings, 3pm Eastbury Concert Band - Seven King Park, Ilford, 3pm Elland Silver Band - Pudsey Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Fairfield Band - Spring Gardens, Buxton. Details: 01298 23114 Felling Brass Band - Gibeside Chapel Whickham, Gateshead, 1pm Ferndown Concert Brass - Fox & Hounds Public House, Ham Lane , Stapehill , Ferndown, 1pm-3pm. Five Rivers Brass - DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads, Durham, 2.30pm Hadstock Silver Band - The Waits, St Ives, 2.30pm Hall Royd Band - Bandstand, Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Hatfields of Colchester Band - Theatre Arts Action Trust Heath Band - Grove House Gardens, Dunstable, 3pm Hemel Hempstead Band - Parsons Close, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Holymoorside Band - Bonsall Carnival - Bonsall Park, 3pm Hook Norton Brass - Garth Park, Bicester, 2.30pm Hungerford Town Band - HADCAF Concert, Corn Exchange, Hungerford Ibstock Brick Brass - Cutts Close Bandstand, Oakham, 3pm Ilkeston Band - Abington Park, Northampton, 3pm Launceston Town Band - Sibley Back Lake, 2.30pm Llangollen Silver Band - The Bandstand, The Groves, Chester, 2pm. Details: 01244 402446 Markham Main Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2pm Mossley Band - Cholmondeley Castle Garden, Malpas New Buckenham Silver Band - Sealife Bandstand, Great Yarmouth Sea Front, 2.30pm Nottingham City Transport Band - Newark Castle Grounds, 2.30pm Otley Brass Band - Recreation Field, Pateley Bridge, 3pm Riddings Band - Glebe Field Centre, Crich, 3pm Riddings B Band - Crossley Park, Ripley, 3pm Ripon City Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough, 2.30pm Rogerstone Band - Bedwellty Park, Tredegar, 3pm Rogerstone Band - Penarth Pier, 2.30pm Rolls Royce Brass Band - Memorial Park, Coventry, 3pm St Austell Youth Band - Newquay Killacourt, 2.30pm St Dennis Band - Lanhydrock House, 2.30pm St Keverne Youth Band - RNLI - Lizard Green, 2pm Soham Comrades Band - Riverside Park, Huntingdon, 2.30pm Solid Brass - Wildwood Center for the Peforming Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, 7pm South West Trains Woodfall Band - The Bandstand, St James's Park, London, 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-7.30pm Staines 'A' Band - Memorial Gardens, Staines, 3pm Stalham Brass Band - Open Day - Museum of the Broads, Stalham, 2pm Swinton & District Excelsior Band - Parliament Street, York, 2pm-4pm United Norwest Co-op Milnrow Band - Broadoak, Ashton, 2.30pm Uppermill Band - Glossop Band Club, 8pm Waltham St Lawrence Silver Band - Mill Meadows, Henley-on-Thames, 2.30pm Watership Brass - Victoria Park Bandstand, Newbury, 3pm Weston Brass - Princess Hall, Burnham-on-Sea, 7.45pm Wetherby and District Band - Golden Acre Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Willingham Band - The Lawn , Union Road , Lincoln, 2.30pm Woking Brass Band - Canbury Gardens, 3pm Yarwell & Nassington Band - Dysart Park, Grantham, 3pm Yorkshire Building Society Junior Brass Band - Children's Fun Day - Piece Hall, Halifax 29 July - 5 August Canford Summer School of Music, Bob Childs Brass Band Course. Details: 0208-660-4766 30 July Band concert - The Princess, Burnham-on-Sea, 7.45pm Brio Brass - Minnehaha Falls Bandshell, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 7pm Central Band of the Royal British Legion - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Liskeard Silver Band - Looe Floral Dance, 7pm 30 July - 4 August National Youth Brass Band of Scotland Summer Course - St Andrews 30 July - 5 August Wessex Band Courses - Sturminster Newton, Dorset. Details: 01226-765579 or email john@wessexband.fnet.co.uk 31 July Central Band of the Royal British Legion - The Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 11am Shanklin Town Brass Band - Rylstone Gardens, Isle of Wight, 8pm 31 July - 4 August Festival de Cuivres en Dombes - Villars-les-Dombes, France. Information from Academie de Cuivres de Dombes.