November 2004

1 November Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week St Sebastian (Wokingham) Brass Band - Wokingham Fireworks Parade, 6pm 3 November Brass Encounters - Melbourne Staff Band (Staff Bandmaster Ken Waterworth) - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time Granite City Brass – Aboyne, 7.30pm Hilgay Silver Band - Remembrance Concert - Downham Market Town Hall 4 November Bedford Town Band - In Tune with Childline - Great Hall, Bedford School, De Parys Avenue, Bedford, MK40 2TU, 7.30pm. With the Junior Choir of Bedford Preparatory School and Bedford School Band and Bedford Town Tickets £5 (adults) & £2 (children) from 01234 357268 Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Symphonic Brass - The Splendour of the Baroque - City United Reformed Church, Windsor Place, Cardiff, 7.30pm. Tickets £5/£3 at the door. 5 November Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Brighton & Hove City Brass - Lewes Bonfire March - Lewes, 6pm Hawk Green Band - Hawk Green Bonfire LGB Brass - Lewes Bonfire Parade, 5.45pm 6 November Essex Trombone Fest - Chipping Ongar Primary School, Ongar, Essex, 2.30 - 5 pm. Massed trombone workshop - all welcome. Contact Jeremy Lewis 01277 364646 or email lewis_s@ntlworld.com South West BB Association Annual Contest - Riviera Centre - Chestnut Avenue, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 5LZ, 10am. Tel: 01803 299992. Six sections, open to all bands. Closing date for entries 18th September. Details from Brian Elliott 01752 892056. Open Section (Championship & First) "Spectrum" Gilbert Vinter. Second Section "Prisms" Peter Graham. Third Section "Simon Called Peter" Gilbert Vinter. Fourth Section "Malvern Suite" Philip Sparke. Youth Section "Scenes du Lac" Roy Newsome. Junior /Training Section "Young in Heart" Eric Ball U.S. Open Brass Band Championships - John Hersey High School, 1900 E. Thomas Street, Arlington Heights, IL 60004, USA. Own choice entertainment contest. Open to bands around the world. Contact info@prairiebrass.org for more information. Whitburn Invitation Entertainment Contest - Whitburn Academy, Shanks Road, Bathgate, West Lothian, EH47 0HL Almac Bisley Brass Band - Lions Concert - Woking Sixth Form College, 7.30pm Amersham Band - Bonfire Night, Amersham Lions - Amersham Cricket Ground, Woodside Road, 6.30pm Astley Youth Band - St Paul's Church, Westleigh Audley Brass + Tenor Philip Cartwright and Mezzo Soprano Helen Young - Brass Night at the Proms - Alsager Civic Centre, Alsager, Cheshire, 7.30pm. Tickets £4, £3 concessions, £1 for children under 16 accompanied an adult - available from 01270 760778 or kevin@birchkm40.fsnet.co.uk Band of The Corps of Royal Engineers + Hampshire and IOW Army Cadet Force Band + Sussex Army Cadet Forces Corps of Drums - Chichester Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 6AP, 7pm. Tickets £18 £15 £12.50 £8 from 01243 781312 Besses o' th' Barn Band + Wingates Band - Ulverston Black Dyke Band - Bingley Airedale Rotary Club, Bradford Grammar School. Details: 01274 551124 Brighouse & Rastrick Band - Uppermill Civic Hall, 8pm East Yorkshire Motor Services Brass Band - The Guildhall, Hull, 7.30pm Fairey FP (Music) Band + Wire Brass - Parr Hall, Warrington, Cheshire, 7.30pm. Tickets from 01925 826927 Foden's Richardson Band - Llay HQ, Wrexham, 7.30 pm Gloucester Brass + Bletchington Silver Band - Cooper School, Bicester, Oxon, 7.30pm Hade Edge Band - Holmfirth Church, 7.30pm. Tickets on door Langley Band + Warley Male Choir - Walsall Methodist Hall Liss Band - Chiddingfold Markham Main Colliery Band - Brass and Voices - School for the Deaf, Leger Way, Doncaster, 7pm Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Dolton Carnival Pasadena Tabernacle Band of the Salvation Army + Chris Jaudes (trumpet) - Broadway Comes To Pasadena - The Salvation Army Pasadena Tabernacle, 960 E. Walnut Street , Pasadena, CA 91106 (On the corner of Mentor and Walnut, one block from Lake Street.) at 7pm. Thanksgiving Concert with Special Guests Chris and Carol Jaudes. Tickets are $8. For information, please call (626) 773-4400 or visit the band on-line at www.pasadenatab.org St Sebastian (Wokingham) Brass Band - Fireworks Parade - Wokingham, 6pm Yiewsley and West Drayton Band + Apollo Male Voice Choir - Yiewsley & West Drayton Community Centre, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 (£4 concessions) 7 November GMR Brass - [Listen Live!] - GMR Radio, 95.1 FM and 104.5 FM, 6am-7am and 6pm-7pm. Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - BBC Radio Devon, Cornwall and Jersey, 7pm-8pm. British Open Solo & Quartet Championships - Tameside. Hyde Town Hall, Market Street, Hyde, SK14 1AL. Open Solo Championship; Intermediate Slow Melody Championship (under 17); Junior Slow Melody Championship (under 12); Junior Quartet Championship (under 12, from same band); Senior Quartet Championship. Schedule and further information from Frank Hodges: 01942-703217 EABBA Brass Training Course - St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich. Course Tutor: Dr. Nicholas Childs. Enrolment: Association Members - £7.50 : Non Members - £10.00. Details from Dianne Hastings, 01473 626986 YHBBA Malton Brass 2004 Entertainment Contest. Bands by invitation - The Milton Rooms, Market Place, Malton, North Yorks, YO17 7LXN, 10.30am onwards. Details: Dennis Hill, 01430-423451 National Youth Brass Band and National Children's Brass Band Regional Audition - Leicester Arts Centre. Applications (NYBB 12-18 years, NCBB 8-12 year olds) in writing to Philip Biggs, 2 The Coppice, Impington, Cambridge, CB4 9PP Audley Brass - Remembrance Sunday, Audley, 10.30am Beaumaris Band - Celebration concert to mark the 75th Birthday of Welsh Composer Mervyn Burtch - Neuadd PJ Hall Bangor University. Tickets on the door - £6, concessions £3 Bedford Town Band - Festival of Remembrance - Corn Exchange, Bedford, 7.30pm Blackburn and Darwen Band - Glossop Band Club, The Band Room, Derby Street, Glossop, SK13 9NF, 8pm BT Band - Dobcross Band Club, 8pm Burnham-on-Sea & Highbridge Band - Carnival and Remembrance Concert - The Princess, Burnham-on-Sea, 8pm. Tickets Adults £2.50 Concessions £1.75 from 01278 435765. Camborne Town Band + St Austell Town Band + Four Lanes Male Voice Choir - Goff Richards 60th Celebration Charity Concert - Hall For Cornwall, Truro, 7.30pm. Tickets £10, £12.50 and £15 from 01872 262466 Foden's Richardson Band - Victoria Hall, Hanley, 7pm Hilgay Silver Band - Remembrance Concert - Downham Market Town Hall Innovate Skelmanthorpe Band - Whitby Pavillion Killamarsh Silver Band - St Giles Church Hall, 7.30pm Leyland Band - Remembrance Concert - Guild Hall, Preston Otterborne Brass - Royal British Legion Concert - The Point, Eastleigh Pacific Brass - First Presbyterian Church, Hollister, CA, USA, 3pm Pacific Time. Roberts Bakery Band - St. Nicholas Church, Didsbury Thurlstone Brass Band - Delph Band Club, 8pm 8 November Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Knottingley Concert Brass Band - Holy Cross Drama Group - Holy Cross Church Hall, Airdale University of Warwick Brass Band and Wind Orchestra - An Epic Adventure! - Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, 8pm. The programme includes music from the feature film “Pirates of the Caribbean”, the famous “Cry of the Celts”, “Illyrian dances”, and the Epic “Resurgam” in what will definitely be an evening with something for everyone and fun for all. Tickets £5 or £3 (concessions) on the door or from 024 7652 4524 or online www.warwickartscentre.co.uk 9 November Tenby & District Brass Band - Remembrance Service - Carew Cheriton Church, 2pm 10 November Brass Encounters - Sellers International Band + Wingates Band - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time Adelphi Brass Band - Peel Hall, Salford University, 1pm City of Chester Brass Band - N Wales Air Ambulance - Flint Parish Church, 7pm Johnstone Band - Saltcoats 11 November BT Band - Dobcross Band Club, Platt Lane, Dobcross, 8pm Dereham Band - Festival of Remembrance - Swaffham Church, 7pm Fine Arts Brass - Town Hall Theatre, Hartlepool, 7.30pm Friendly Band (Sowerby Bridge) - Square Chapel for the Arts, Halifax, 7.30pm Hawk Green Band - Remembrance Day event - Manchester Airport Old Hall Brass - Olympia Lodge, Saul St, Preston, 9pm Reading Spring Gardens Band - Wesley Methodist Church, Queen's Road, Reading. Tickets £5 from 0118 9869136 Riddings Band - Winding Wheel, Chesterfield, 7.30pm 12-13 November Brass Symposium - University of Durham. A historical survey of the development of brass band instruments, repertory and performance styles. Delegate fees £90. Details from Karen Scott, 0191 334 3156. Concert on evening of Saturday 13th. 12-14 November Svenska Brassbandfestivalen 2004 12 November Listen To The Band - Band of the Royal Corps of Signals - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Cawston Brass Band - Lingwood Village Hall, 7.30pm Cinderford Band - Armistice Concert - Miners Hall, Cinderford, 7.30pm Eccles Borough Band - Brass In Concert - Monton Unitarian Church, Monton Green, Monton, Eccles, M30 9LE, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 on the door or telephone Val Davies 0161 865 1599 Felling Band - Remembrance Service - Lancastrian Suite, Federation Brewery Gateshead, 6.30pm Ireland Colliery Chesterfield - Speedwell Rooms, Staveley, 7pm Llanrug Silver Band - Betws Yn Rhos Onyx Brass - Brown Shipley Concert Hall, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 7.30pm. Tickets: £10 to £5 from 0161 907 5555 South East Cheshire Youth Band + Sand - Heritage Centre, Macclesfield, 7.30pm. South London Fellowship Band + Bromley Temple Songsters - The Mary Marsh Memorial Concert - Upper Norwood Salvation Army, 58 Westow Street, Upper Norwood, London, SE19 3AF, 7.45pm. Details: 020 8663 0468 South West Trains Woodfalls Band - We Will Remember Them - Salisbury City Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01722 327676 Strata Brass - Welcome Inn, Hoyland, Nr Barnsley, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 (including Pie & Pea supper) Whitwell Brass Band - Clayworth Church, 7pm Winterley Methodist Brass Band + Crewe Co-op Brass Band - Brass Spectacular - Sandbach Girls School, Middlewich School, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 and £4 concessions – please email winterleybrassband@yahoo.co.uk 13 November 4th Annual Borders Entertainment Contest - Town Hall, Jedburgh, from 10am, admission £3/£2. Organisers: Scottish Borders Brass Band Association. Dobcross Slow Melody Contest - Dobcross Band Social Club, Platt Lane, Dobcross, Saddleworth, OL3 5AD, from 9.30am. Primary, Junior, Youth and Open Slow Melody + Junior and Open Quartet classes. Details from Nigel Smith 0161 620 2503 or from www.dobcross.f2s.com/bandclub/page4.html Indian Queens Solo & Quartet Contest - Indian Queens, Cornwall National Youth Brass Band and National Children's Brass Band Regional Audition - University of Salford. Applications (NYBB 12-18 years, NCBB 8-12 year olds) in writing to Philip Biggs, 2 The Coppice, Impington, Cambridge, CB4 9PP South East Wales BBA Contest - Five sections, set test pieces. Parc & Dare Hall, Dyfodwg St, Treorchy, Mid Glamorgan, CF42 6NL Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Festival of Remeberance - Greig Hall, Alcester, 7.30pm Astley Youth Band - St Peter's Church, Newton le Willows BBC Elstree Concert Band - Wind Band Concert - Harrow Arts Centre, Middx., 7.30pm. Conducted by Mike Crisp, the band are making their first visit to Harrow. Bedford Breakaway Brass + Huntingdon Male Voice Choir - Priory Centre, St Neots, 7.30pm Black Dyke Band - Selby Abbey . Details: 01757 703123 Blackpool Brass Band - Brass in Concert, Blackpool Salvation Army, 6.30pm Brassband Willebroek + Ian Bousfield (trombone) - Concert Hall, Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium, Regentschapstraat 30, Brussels, Belgium, 8pm Brighouse & Rastrick Band - The Marine Hall, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 6HF, 7.30pm. Tickets £9.50 from 01253 770547 Century Brass + Harrogate Choral Society - Voices, Organ and Brass - St Wilfrid's Church, Duchy Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, 7.30pm. Tickets from 01423 817885 Charles Church Camberley Band + Silouettes Youth Musical Theatre + Camberley Youth Brass Ensemble - High Cross Church, Knoll Road, Camberley, 7.30pm. Free Admission with retiring collection Chelmsord Silver Band - Christmas Lights - Moulsham Street, Chelmsford, 3pm Derwent Brass - Long Eaton, 7.30pm Essex Police Band - SA Citadel, Baddow Road, Chelmsford, 7.30pm. Tickets £6 Flowers Band + Steve Sykes - Bacon Theatre, Dean Close School, Cheltenham, GL51 6HE, 7.30pm. Tickets £7.50 from 01242 258002 Foden's Richardson Band - Morley Town Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (£6) from 0113 224 3801 Friary Guildford Band 21st Anniversary Ceilidh evening - The Lockwood Centre, Guildford, Tickets £10, to include free buffet Greenfield Band (Saddleworth) - Greenfield Conservative Club, Chew Valley Road, Greenfield, OL3 7DB, 7.30pm Harborough Band - Royal British Legion Concert - Methodist Church, Market Harborough Harrogate Band - Wetherby Races - The Racecourse, Wetherby, 10.30am onwards Hatfields of Colchester Band - Lavenham Parish Church, near Colchester, 7.30pm Hawthorn Band - Camberwell Salvation Army Hall, Bowen Street, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia, 8pm. Tickets $12 ($10 concessions) Hepworth (Persimmon Homes) Band + Mirfield Free Grammar School Jazz Band - St Marys Parish Church, Church Lane, Mirfield, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from 01484 667213 or on the door Hitchin Band - Memorial Hall, Stotfold, 7.30pm Ipswich & Norwich Co-op Band - Angel Theatre, Rendlesham, Nr Woodbridge, Suffolk, 7.30pm. Tickets from 01394 420272 Knighton Town Silver Band + Cantorian Choir - Knighton Community Centre, 7.30pm Knottingley Concert Brass Band - Central Methodist Church, Pontefract Lancashire Life and Lake District Life Morecambe Brass Band - Remembrance Concert - The Dome, Morecambe, 7.30pm Lions Youth Brass - Bridgemere Garden World, Near Nantwich Littleborough Public Brass Band - "The Very Last Night of the Proms" - Littleborough Coach House, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 and £3 Morecambe Band - Remembrance Concert - The Dome, Morecambe, 7.30pm Newhall Band - Masonic Lodge, Ashby Road, 9pm Ocean Brass - Methodist Church, Bournemouth Road, Chandlers Ford, Hampshire, 7.30pm. In aid of the Childrens' Hospice, Naomi House. Tickets from 02380 254416. Pemberton Old Wigan (JJB) Band - Rememberance day Concert - St. Matthews church, Highfield, Wigan Porthywaen Silver Band - Big Band Concert - Holy Trinity, Oswestry, 7.30pm Ransome Band - St Anne's Church, Grantham, 7.30pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Athletic FC Centenary Concert - Reeth, 7.30pm Reg Vardy Band + Victorian Brass + His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts - Brass Symposium Concert - Elvet Methodist Church, Durham, 5pm. Tickets £10 from 0191 334 3156 Royal British Legion Victory Brass Band - Dug out Remembrance Service - RBL Club, Fratton, 7.30pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Cannock Bandstand Sellers International Youth Band + High Spritis Vocal Quartet - Greenhead College, Huddersfield, 7.30pm. Tickets £4 from 01484 301359 Shildon Salvation Army Corps Band - in aid of the Macmillan Cancer Relief County Durham Appeal - LampLight Arts Centre, Stanley, 7.45 p.m. Admission: £3.50 full; £2.50 concessions. Skelmersdale Prize Band - Skelmersdale United Football Club, Stanley Park, Skelmersdale, 7.45pm Slaidburn Silver Band - Waddington Royal British Legion, 7.30pm Stowmarket Concert Band - Festival of Remembrance - The Regal Theatre, Stowmarket, 8.30pm Tiverton Town Band - Hatherleigh Carnival, 7pm VBS Poynton Brass Band - United Reform Church, Great Moor, 7.30pm Verwood Concert Brass - Coffee Morning - Verwood Memorial Hall West Wycombe Brass Band - Lane End Village Hall, 8pm Wigston Band - St. Mary's Church, Queniborough Wingates Band - Parbold Festival Yeovil Town Band - Evercreech 14 November Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Radio Teesdale, 107.2 FM, 9pm - repeated Mondays 2pm. (On air 8 November to 5 December). For future plans or suggestions for programme items email michael_fryer@hotmail.com GMR Brass - [Listen Live!] - GMR Radio, 95.1 FM and 104.5 FM, 6am-7am and 6pm-7pm. Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - BBC Radio Devon, Cornwall and Jersey, 7pm-8pm. British Trombone Festival 2004 - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff, 10am-6pm Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Rememberance March - Alcester, 10.20am Arnfield Brass - Broadbottom Remembrance Day, 10am Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Rememberance Service - St Marks Church, Bestwood Village Billingham Silver Band - Remembrance Parade - Thornaby, 9.30a.m Brighton & Hove City Brass - Henfield Remembrance March - Henfield, 9.30am British Airways Band - Woking Remembrance Parade and Service, 10am Brixham Town Band - Rememberance day parade - Brixham, 10.30am Camborne Town Band - Camborne Armistice Parade, 10am Camborne Town Band - Illogan Armistice Parade, 2pm Carlton Brass (Nottingham) - Calverton March, 10am Cawston Brass Band - Remembrance Service - Cawston Church, 2.30pm Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5AL. Tickets £6.50, £7.50 from 01372 742555 Cholsey Silver Band - Remembrance Parade, Wallingford, 10.30am Cholsey Silver Band - Remembrance Service, St Mary's Church, Cholsey, 3pm Cirencester Band - Remembrance Sunday Parade and Service - Coates, near Kemble, 2.30pm City of Chester Brass Band - Remembrance Sunday - Chester Cathedral, 10am Coleshill Town Band - Remembrance Sunday - Coleshill Parish Church, 10.30am Crystal Palace Band - Remembrance Parade - Belmont, 10am David Childs + Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra - Assembly Hall, Stoke Abbott Road, Worthing, BN11 1HQ, 3pm. Tickets £8, £11, £13 (Students and children under 16: £3) from 01903 206206 Dereham Band - Remembrance Day parade - Dereham, 10.30am Dobcross Silver Band - Dobcross Band Club, Platt Lane, Dobcross, 8pm Downshire Brass - Service of Remembrance - Malone Presbyterian Church, Belfast, 11am Eagley Band - Little Lever Conservative Club Ellington Colliery Band - Remembrance Service & Parade, Lynemouth, 10.30am Epsom and Ewell Silver Band - Remembrance Service - St Mary the Virgin, Epsom Fakenham Town Band - Remembrance Parade - Swaffham Market Place, 10.30 am Fakenham Town Band - Fakenham Market Place & Church, 2.30pm Five Rivers Brass - Remembrance Sunday Parade - Forrest Hall, 10.30am Friary Guildford Brass Band - Remembrance Day parade - Guildford Castle, Guildford Glossop Old Band - Remembrance Concert - Glossop Band Club, 8pm Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band - Armistice Parade and Concert - Grimethorpe Hade Edge Band - Annual Quiz - Holme Band Club, 8pm. £4 per team, max 4 people. Details contact Lisa Sugden, sugdenlisa@hotmail.com Harrogate Band - Remembrance Service - Stonefall War Graves Cemetery, Harrogate, 12pm Hawk Green Band - High Lane War Memorial Hawk Green Band - St. Peter's, Hazel Grove Haworth Brass Band - St Michael's Church, Haworth Hepworth Persimmon Homes Band - Remembrance Service - New Mill Church Holymoorside Band - Remembrance Day - Bolsover, 10.30am Holymoorside Band - Remembrance Day - Holymoorside, 3pm Ireland Colliery Chesterfield - Armistice Parade, Staveley, 10am Ireland Colliery Chesterfield - Armistice Parade, Chesterfield, 2pm Jackfield Band - Remembrance Sunday - The Boat, Jackfield Keynsham Brass Band - Remembrance Day Service, St. Johns, Keynsham, 9.15am Killamarsh Silver Band - St Giles Church, 3pm Kippax Band - Kippax Band Club, 8pm. Tickets on the door Knottingley Concert Brass Band - Remembrance Day Parade - St. Andrew's Church, Ferrybridge Langley Band - Sheldon Royal British Legion, 7.30pm Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - Combined Remembrance Service - Cherry Willingham Comprehensive School, 10.45am Linthwaite Band - St Helens Church, Hemsworth, 9.30am Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Remembrance Parade, Spondon Village Hall, 10.15am Mid Sussex Brass Band - Remembrance Day, Burgess Hill, 10.15am Muker Silver Band - Sherburn, 3pm Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Rememberance Parade, Okehampton Oxted Band - Remembrance service - St. Peter's, Limpsfield 9.40am Riddings Band - Tibshelf March, 10.30am Ripon City Band - Remembrance Sunday - Ripon Spa Gardens, 10.45am Royal British Legion Victory Brass Band - St. Mary’s Church, Fratton Road, 8pm St Keverne Brass Band - St Keverne square, 10am St Ronan's Silver Band + Molde Brass Band - Parish Church, Leithen Road, Innerleithen, 2.30pm Sandhurst Silver Band - Christmas Lights switch-on - Bracknell, 1pm Scissett Youth Band - Honley Remembrance Day - Liberal Club Car Park, Honley Stannington Brass Band - Remembrance Day Parade, Stannington, 10.30am Stocksbridge Band - Last Night of the Proms - Stocksbridge Band Club, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, S36 1DY, 8pm Tilbury Band - Service of Remembrance - Civic Square, Tilbury, Essex Verwood Concert Brass - Verwood Memorial Hall 15 November Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Radio Teesdale, 107.2 FM, 2pm - repeat of Sunday broadcast. (On air 8 November to 5 December). For future plans or suggestions for programme items email michael_fryer@hotmail.com Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Ocean Brass - Remembrance Service - Southampton Guildhall Tilbury Band - Port of London Authority Service of Remembrance - London Internation Cruise Terminal, nr. Tilbury Riverside Station, Tilbury, Essex 17 November Brass Encounters - Zurich Zentral Salvation Army Band, Switzerland - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time Buy As You View Band, featuring the Songsters - Salvation Army Hall, Canton, Cardiff, 7.30 pm. Tickets are £7 from 07971 697582 Leicestershire Co-op Snibston Charnwood Brass - Co-op Concert - Parklands Leisure Centre, Wigston 18 November Grange Moor Brass Band - Mirfield Liberal Club Jackfield Band - Beacon Centre, Sedgley Kensington and Norwood Brass - Flinders Street Baptist Church, Adelaide, South Australia, 8pm Parc & Dare Band - St. John's Church, Porth Wellington (Telford) Brass Band - Captain Webb School, Dawley, Telford, 4pm 19-21 November National Methodist Youth Brass Band - Solihull Methodist Church, West Midlands, 7.30pm. 19 November Listen To The Band - Krohnengen Brass - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Basingstoke Silver Band - Whitedown School, Alton, 7.30pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band + guest soloist, Stan Lippeat - Children In Need Grand Charity Concert Bestwood Village Social Club, 7pm. Also including dancers from the local area and a rock and roll band playing. Tickets £3 for adults and £1.50 for OAP's and Children Clackmannan District Brass Band - Callander Kirk, Callander, 8pm St Keverne Brass Band - Lifton, 7pm Sousa Concert - Kultur und Kongresszentrum Konzertsaal, Luzern, Switzerland, 7.30pm. 150 years of John Philip Sousa, the American March King. 'Sousa For Ever!' Yorkshire Building Society Concert Brass Band - Kirklands Community Centre, Menston 20 November Barnsley Bandfest 2004 - Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley, (M1 Junction 36), 1pm - 10pm. Featuring guest bands DUT Yorkshire Imps and Asda Stocksbridge. Come and go as you please. All day bar and refreshments. Tickets £6 & £4. Details: 01226 765579/291525. North Wales Annual Brass Band Championships - Rhyl Town Hall, Wellington Road, Rhyl, Clwyd, LL18 1AB, 9.30am (approx) draw 10am start. Entries have traditionally been limited to North Wales bands, but this has been mainly because the prize money in many cases would not justify the cost of a coach. However, any bands interested in coming down to compete with the locals are more than welcome to do so. Entry forms & details usually go out September, closing date usually end October - (to be finalised at our Sept. meeting). Contact Sue Bohanna, tel: 01745 344872 Besses o' th' Barn Band + Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir - Brass & Voice Night at the Proms - William Aston Hall, Newi, Mold Road, Wrexham, 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (£7 if bought in advance). Box Office 01978 292015 - Wrexham Tourist Information Centre Bedford Town Band Decibels - Holy Cross Church, Bedford, 7.45pm Besses o' th' Barn Band + Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir - Brass and Voice Night at the Proms - Newi William Aston Hall, Mold Road, Wrexham, LL1 2AN, 7.30pm. Tickets £8 from 01978 292015 Billingham Silver Band - Parade for Santa - Boyes Store, Billingham Town Centre Black Dyke Band - Kultur und Kongresszentrum, Luzern, Switzerland Burbage Band - Chatsworth House, 12.30pm Burnley Alliance Silver Band - Burnley Festival, 7.30pm Carlton Brass (Nottingham) - Carlton Forum, 7pm City of Bristol Brass Band - St Bonaventure's Church, Bishopton, Bristol, 7.30pm. City of Cambridge Brass Band - Wolfson Theatre, Churchill College, Cambridge, 7.30pm. In aid of the Arthur Rank Hospice, Cambridge. Tickets £8 to include a glass of wine from 01223 501117 Cranbrook Town Band - Children In Need charity concert - Queen's Hall, Cranbrook School, Kent, 7.30pm East Yorkshire Motor Services Brass Band - The Shire Hall, Howden, East Yorkshire, 7.30pm. Tickets £6 on the door (£5 concessions) Enfield Band - St David's Church, High Street, Merthyr Tydfil, 7pm. Tickets £5, £3 from 01685 359387 Fairey FP (Music) Band - Lancaster Town Hall, 7.30pm. Details: 01524 582000 Ferndown Concert Brass - Sherborne Abbey, 7.30pm Foden's Richardson Band - Subscription Rooms, Stroud, 7.30pm. Details: 01453 765753 Holsworthy Town Band - Holsworthy Carnival Kettering Citadel Band - Wigan Pier, 7pm. Tickets £4/£3 from 01254 854244 Knighton Town Silver Band + Cantorian Choir - Knighton Community Centre, 7.30pm Langley Band - Barlow Theatre, 7.30pm Leyland Band - Empire Theatre, Consett, 7.30 p.m. Admission: £6. Morecambe Band - Children in Need Blowathon - The Platform, Morecambe, 10am-8pm. Anyone welcome to to play, collect, help, conduct, support. Come along and join in. National Methodist Youth Brass Band - Solihull Methodist Church, Solihull, West Midlands, 7.30pm Newbridge Band - Henllys Church-in-Wales Pacific Brass + Concord Salvation Army Band - Henry Mello Auditorium, Watsonville, California, USA, 7pm. Admission $1 only plus a toy or a non-perishable food item for the Salvation Army Christmas Drive. Porthywaen Silver Band - Bishops Castle, 7.30pm Portsmouth City Band - Meridian Centre, Portsmouth Raunds Temperance Band - Rushden & Diamonds Center, 8pm Rushden Windmill Band - Autumn Concert - St. Botolph's Church, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, 7.30pm. For more information and ticket prices telephone Bill Coyne on 07967-604566 or see our web site. Sellers International Band + Barnard Castle Band - Glaxo Sports Club, Barnard Castle, 7.30pm Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Penn Church, Wolverhampton Swindon Pegasus Brass + Swindon Male Voice Choir - Holyrood Church Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Stamford Bridge Village Hall Thomas Coaches Mid Rhondda Band + Cowbridge Choir - Llantrisant Leisure Centre Travelsphere Holidays Band - Yeadon Town Hall, Leeds, 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (£6) from 0113 224 3801 Unison Kinneil Band - Christmas Lights, Bo'ness Welwyn Garden City Band - Wanstead Church Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band - Band Fest 2004, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley 21 November Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Radio Teesdale, 107.2 FM, 9pm - repeated Mondays 2pm. (On air 8 November to 5 December). For future plans or suggestions for programme items email michael_fryer@hotmail.com GMR Brass - [Listen Live!] - GMR Radio, 95.1 FM and 104.5 FM, 6am-7am and 6pm-7pm. Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - BBC Radio Devon, Cornwall and Jersey, 7pm-8pm. Brass in Concert Championships - Leisure Centre, High Street, Spennymoor, DL16 6DB, 9.30am. Details/tickets from J Beere, 17 Montalbo Road, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, DL12 8BP. Tel: 01833 631789 Gloucestershire Brass Band Association Annual Own Choice Contest, Royal Forest of Dean College, Five Acres, Coleford, GL16 7JT. Information from 01594-833899 Leicestershire Brass Band Association Annual Festival Contest, Guthlaxton College, Wigston, Leicester, LE18 2DS. Sections 1-4 and open section for unregistered bands. Own choice test piece. Schedules available from Contest Secretary - Pam Green, 59 Park Road, Coalville, Leicester, LE67 3AE, 01530 810221 Masterclass and Workshop - Silkstone Primary School, South Yorkshire. Master technicians in brass and percussion playing have been specially chosen to direct a full day of workshops and sectional classes. For an entry form or for further details please contact Nigel Horne at njh@despammed.com National Youth Brass Band and National Children's Brass Band Regional Audition - University of Sunderland. Applications (NYBB 12-18 years, NCBB 8-12 year olds) in writing to Philip Biggs, 2 The Coppice, Impington, Cambridge, CB4 9PP SCABA Workshop for Euphoniums and Baritones - with Helen Tyler - Cranleigh, Surrey. Details from Andy Wilson, 01737 358905 or 07904 910848 Wilkinson Northern Open Brass Band Championship - Theatre Royal, Corporation Street, St Helens, WA10 1LQ, 9am onwards. Test pieces: Championship/1st Section (Quintessance - Robert Redhead), 2nd (Renaissance - Peter Graham), 3rd (The Call of the Righteous - Leslie Condon), 4th (Own Choice piece published by SP&S). Further information from Philip Upton, 01744-29064 Barnsley Building Society Band - Glossop Band Club, The Band Room, Derby Street, Glossop, SK13 9NF, 8pm Brighouse & Rastrick Band - Riley Smith Hall, Tadcaster, 7.30pm Chelmsord Silver Band - Christmas Lights - The High Street, Chelmsford, 3pm City of Cambridge Brass Band - Grafton Centre, Cambridge Fakenham Town Band - Fishermens' Thankgiving Service - Wells-Next-The-Sea Methodist Church, 6.30 pm Foden's Richardson Band - St Mary's Church, Beaminster, 2.30pm. Tickets £7.50 from 01308 862493 Innovate Skelmanthorpe Band - Formby Hall, Atherton, 7.30pm KM Medway Band - Shorne Village Hall, 3pm Lydgate Band - Dobcross Band Club, Platt Lane, Dobcross, 8pm Matlock Band - Edgefold Club, Matlock Old Silkstone 'B' Band - Day workshop and masterclass - Silkstone, South Yorkshire Roberts Bakery Band + Lions Youth Brass - Oakley Centre, Crewe Sale Brass Band - Worthington Park, 12pm Skelmanthorpe Band - Formby Hall, Atherton, 7.30pm. Tickets £4.50/£4 on the door. St Keverne Brass Band - Falmouth, 6pm United Co-op Yorkshire Brass Band + guest vocal artists - Bingley Arts Centre, 7.30pm. In aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research. Tickets from Pam-James@ghyll-beck.freeserve.co.uk Willoughby City Band - Willoughby Town Hall, Sydney, Australia, 3pm. Yorkshire Building Society Band - Symphony Hall, Birmingham, B1 2EA, 3pm. Booking office 0121 780 3333 22 November Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Radio Teesdale, 107.2 FM, 2pm - repeat of Sunday broadcast. (On air 8 November to 5 December). For future plans or suggestions for programme items email michael_fryer@hotmail.com Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Chippenham Town Band + Ebonette Clarinet Ensemble - Neeld Hall, Chippenham, Wiltshire, 7.30pm. A Chippenham Arts Festival Event. Tickets £6 Adult, £4 Concessions. Box Office (01249) 706333 Rothwell Temperance Brass Band - Westville House School, Ilkley, 7.30pm. The new concert hall has a raked seating system with excellent viewing for 200+ people. (Bar available). Tickets £10, Concessions £7.50, Children £5. Tickets available at the Ilkley Tourist Information Office or from the School - tel 01943 608053 Rushden Windmill Band + St. Cecila Singers - Brass & Voices - Park Road Baptist Church, Rushden, Northants, 7.30pm 23 November Amington Band - Newton Regis Garden Centre, Newton Regis, Warwickshire, 8pm West Wycombe Brass Band - Havenfield, 8pm 24 November Brass Encounters - Zurich Zentral Salvation Army Band, Switzerland - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time Liss Band - Prince's Garden Centre, Rake, 7pm Staffordshire Band - Civic Reception, Mayor's Parlour, Walsall Town Hall, 7.30pm Taverham Band - Carols - Taverham Nursery, 7pm Yorkshire Building Society Concert Brass - St Ives Golf Club, Bingley 25 November Cawston Brass Band - Beer Festival - County Hall, Norwich, 8pm Foden's Richardson Band - Congleton Town Hall, 7.30 pm Kirkintilloch Band - RSAMD Concert Hall, Glasgow, 7pm RNCM Brass Band and RNCM Brass Ensemble- Brown Shipley Concert Hall, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 7.30pm. Tickets: £5 (£4.50) from 0161 907 5555 Royal British Legion Victory Brass Band - Christmas Concert - RBL Club, Fratton, 8pm Taverham Band - Carols - Bawdeswell Garden Centre, 7pm Whitwell Brass Band - Whitwell Community Centre, 7pm 26 November Listen To The Band - latest CD releases - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. City of Discovery Brass Quintet - Lunchtime Concert - Chaplaincy Centre, University of Dundee City of Oxford Silver Band - RAF Brize Norton, 7pm Clackmannan District Brass Band - St. Georges West, Edinburgh, 7.30pm Hayle Town Band - Switching on the light - St Julia's Hospice, 7.30pm Langley Band - Langley Lights Leyburn Brass Band - Leyburn Christmas Lights Switch-On - Market Place, Leyburn, 6pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Long Eaton Christmas Lights Malmesbury Concert Band - Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, 7.30pm. For Tickets please contact Barry (01249) 460587 or Mike (01249) 650540 Markham & District Colliery Band + Pontllanfraith Primary School Choir - Winter Wonderland - Blackwood Miners Institute, 7.30pm. Tickets £6, £5 from 01495 224425 Stannary Brass Band - Tree of Light, Tavistock Square, 6.45pm University of Warwick Brass Society - Leamington Spa Town Hall Wrentham Band - Lowestoft United Reform Church 27-28 November 30th Swiss National Brass Band Contest - Centre de Congrès, Montreux 27 November Coventry Brass Festival 2004 - St John the Baptist Church and Coventry Schools Former Pupils Association Club, Medieval Spon Street, Coventry, 10.30am-6.30pm 30th Swiss National Brass Band Contest - Centre de Congrès, Grand-Rue 95, Montreux, CH-1820. 1st Section - 9am, 4th Section 2.30pm, 3rd Section - 4pm, Championship Section (set testpiece) - 4pm. Barrow Shipyard Band - St Mary's Parish Church, Ambleside, 7.30pm Basingstoke Silver Band - St.Andrews Concert, 7.30pm Bedale Brass Band - Bedale High School, 7.30pm Black Dyke Band - Town Hall, Morley, 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (£6) from 0113 224 3801 Brassband Bürgermusik Luzern - Swiss Championships Gala Concert - Stravinski Hall, Centre de Congrès, Montreux, 8.30pm Bratton Silver Band - West End Baptist Church, Westbury, 7.30pm Bristol East Band - Carols - Kingswood Shopping Centre, 10am Brixham Town Band - Caroling - Fore St, Brixham, 10.30am Camborne Town Band - Camborne Christmas Lights, 4pm Cirencester Band - Advent Market, Cirencester Crystal Palace Band - Christmas Lights - Crystal Palace Green Deiniolen Band + guest soloists Iwan Williams (Flugel), Gavin Saynor (Eb Bass), Sheona White (Tenor Horn) and Gavin Pritchard (Percussion) - Barcud Television Studios, Caernarfon, 7.30pm Driffield Silver Band - Carols - Blue Bell Inn, Riverhead, 11am-2pm Fairey FP (Music) Band - The New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme, ST5 0JG, 7.30pm. Tickets: 01782 717962 Fakenham Town Band - Switching on Christmas Lights - Burham Market Green, 2.30 pm Friary Guildford Brass Band - Cranleigh Roundtable Charity Concert - Speech Hall, Cranleigh School, Cranleigh, 7.30pm Glossop Old Band - Central Methodist Church, Glossop, 7.30pm Grange Moor Brass Band - Birdsall Church Hade Edge Brass Band - Barkisland Church, 7pm Hall Royd Band - Bolton Road Methodist, 7.30pm Hayle Town Band - Switch on Hayle's Xmas Lights - Hayle Day Care Center, 4.30pm International Staff Band - St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol, 7.30pm. Tickets £10 to £3 from 0117 923 0359 Kippax Band - Cabaret- Kippax Band Club, 8pm Knighton Town Silver Band - Knighton Christmas Lights Liss Band - St Peter's Church, Petersfield, 7pm Llwydcoed Band + Ynysowen Male Choir – Rhydycar Leisure Centre, Merthyr Tydfil, 7pm. Tickets £5, £3 from 07869 384937 Marlow Town Band + soloists John Lewis and Steven Miles (Brighouse & Rastrick) - Autumn Concert - St Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield, Bucks, 7.30pm. Tickets £8 from 01494 674887 Memorial Halls SA Band + Roger Webster - SA Hall, King Edward Street, Nottingham, 7pm. Tickets £5 and £4 from 01159 400585 Mereside Brass - Plumley Methodist Church Oughtibridge Brass Band - Christmas Market - Millennium Green, Oughtibridge, 12pm Porthywaen Silver Band - Llanrhaedr, 7.30pm Portsmouth City Band - Portsmouth Dockyard Christmas Fair Poyntzpass Silver Band - Music in Armagh - Armagh Music Centre, the Mall, 2pm Ransome Band - Christmas Concert, Palace Theatre, Newark, 7.30pm. Tickets 01636 655755 St Dennis Band - St Petroc Church, Bodmin, 7.30pm Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Penn Church, Wolverhampton Swindon Brass - Chieseldon Club, 7pm Tilbury Band - Thameside Theatre, Orsett Road, Grays, Essex United Co-op Yorkshire Brass Band - Hull Methodist Church, 7.30pm. West Chiltington Silver Band - West Chilt School Christmas Fair, 10am Wingates Band - Methodist Hall, Fisher Street, Carlisle, 7pm. Tickets £8 from 01228 549382 Woburn Sands Band - Christmas Lights Ceremony, Bletchley, 3pm Yarnton Band - Yarnton Village Hall Yorkshire Building Society Concert Brass - Arts Centre, Bingley 28 November Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Radio Teesdale, 107.2 FM, 9pm - repeated Mondays 2pm. (On air 8 November to 5 December). For future plans or suggestions for programme items email michael_fryer@hotmail.com GMR Brass - [Listen Live!] - GMR Radio, 95.1 FM and 104.5 FM, 6am-7am and 6pm-7pm. Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - BBC Radio Devon, Cornwall and Jersey, 7pm-8pm. NWABBA (Manchester District) Open Championships - Uppermill Civic Hall, Saddleworth. Entry is open to all bands with a National Grading - details from Gordon Collinge, 0161 285 6765 NEMBBA Solo Duet & Quartet Contest - Shirland Miners Welfare, 123 Main Road, Shirland, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 6BA. (Member bands only). Classes: Junior Slow melody under 12 years, 12-14 years, 14-17 years, Air Varie, Duet & Quartet Novice (any age). Details from Brian Eggleshaw 01623-478454 Northumberland Brass Band Association - Open Entertainments contest - Northumberland College, College Road, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 9RG - Three sections, A Championships, B 1st and 2nd section bands, and C 3rd and 4th section bands. For more information contact Tony Griffiths on 01670 810117 or e-mail tonygriffithsnb@yahoo.co.uk Scottish Open Brass Band Championships - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. Further information and application forms from Alan McClaren 0131 440 3830. Open to all bands. Test-piece: Dances and Arias by Edward Gregson. Ticket prices are £5 (£4 concessions) for the contest - permitting entry to the Scottish Open and all sections of the Youth Championships. Box Office - 0141 353 8000 Scottish Youth Brass Band Championships - Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB. Tel: 0141-332-4101. Further information and application forms from Alan McClaren 0131 440 3830, email: apm@menziesdougal.co.uk. Ticket prices are £5 (£4 concessions) for the contest - permitting entry to the Scottish Open and all sections of the Youth Championships. Box Office - 0141 353 8000 30th Swiss National Brass Band Contest - Centre de Congrès, Grand-Rue 95, Montreux, CH-1820. 2nd Section - 8.30am, Championship Section (own-choice testpiece) - 12pm. Tameside Youth Brass Band Festival - Tameside. Tameside Hippodrome, 40 Oldham Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire OL6 7SE, 12 noon. Contest information from Frank Hodges: 01942-703217. West Midlands BBA Annual Contest - Own choice selection, all sections. Leamington Spa - Details from Greta Russell, 024 7644 2701 Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers - The Hawth, Crawley, 3pm. Tickets from 01293-553636. Season tickets available. BT Band - Stockport Plaza, 2.30pm Camborne Town Band - British Heart Foundation Concert - Newquay, 7pm David Childs + Haverhill Sinfonia - Castle Manor School, Haverhill, Suffolk, 7.30pm Denton Brass - Hymns and Brass service - Denton Methodist Church, 6pm Hilgay Silver Band - Walsoken Village Hall Hollingworth Band - Glossop Band Club, The Band Room, Derby Street, Glossop, SK13 9NF, 8pm Hyde Street Youth Band - Annual Concert/Awards/Auction afternoon - The Yarraville Club, Stephen St., Yarraville, Melbourne, Australia, 2pm. See www.hydestreet.8m.net Leyland Band - Guild Hall, Preston Lockwood Brass - Redcar Christmas Lights - Redcar High Street, 7pm Pennine Brass - Dobcross Band Club, Platt Lane, Dobcross, 8pm Portsmouth City Band - Portsmouth Dockyard Christmas Fair Poyntzpass Silver Band - Kilmore Parish Church, 7pm Roberts Bakery Band + Lions Youth Brass - The Oakley Centre, Crewe, 7.30pm. Details from Nigel Birch 07734 263194 Slaidburn Silver Band - Dunsop Parish Church, Dunsop Bridge, 7pm St Sebastian (Wokingham) Brass Band - Winter Carnival - Wokingham, 3.30pm Stannary Brass Band - Endsleigh Garden Centre, Ivybridge, 11.30am-4pm Whitburn Band + Newtongrange Silver Band + Scottish Junior and Open Solo Champion Katrina Marzella + 150 voices of Inverclyde Schools Choir + The Whistlebinkies – Celtic Brass and Voices: Scottish Open Gala Concert - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 7.30pm. Tickets £10 (£8 concessions) from 0141 353 8000. Winterley Methodist Brass Band – Band Sunday - Winterley Methodist Church, Near Crewe, 6.30pm onwards. Entrance is free of charge. This is an annual event which sees the band play a number of items including hymns which you can sing along to, there is a short sermon by a local preacher and then more playing by the band. We look forward to seeing you at this usually capacity event. Woburn Sands Band - Christmas Lights Ceremony - Woburn Sands, 2pm 29 November Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Radio Teesdale, 107.2 FM, 2pm - repeat of Sunday broadcast. (On air 8 November to 5 December). For future plans or suggestions for programme items email michael_fryer@hotmail.com Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week 30 November Bedford Breakaway Brass + Risely Singers - Christmas Tree Festival - St Pauls Church, Bedford, 7pm Otterbourne Brass - Princes Mead School Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Cauwood, Malton Tyldesley Brass Band - Brookfield Masonic Hall, 8.30pm