April 2008

2 April Brass Encounters - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time World of Bands - - [Listen Live!] - 3SER fm, 97.7, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wednesdays, 9am - 12pm Eastern Australian Daylight time 4-6 April Black Dyke Band Brass Arts Festival - Gandhi Hall, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, Leeds. Enquiries: Festival Administrator Alison Childs on 01457 820138 4 April Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Composers Collective - Black Dyke Band Brass Arts Festival - Gandhi Hall, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, Leeds, 8pm. An ensemble of the Black Dyke Band playing compositions from some of the Young Composers of the Yorkshire Youth Brass Band. Free admission Freckleton Band - St. Peter's Cathedral, Balmoral Road Lancaster, LA1 3BT, 7.30pm Great Horwood Silver Band + Brass Band du Nord Pas de Calais - Buckingham Church, 7.30pm Hyde Band - Regent Centre, 51 The High Street Christchurch, 7.30pm Jackfield Band - Roddington Village Hall Malvern Chase Brass Band + Fine Arts Brass - Forum Theatre, Malvern, 7.30pm 5 April Cornwall Brass Band Association Annual Contest - open to any band in the country. Truro Methodist Church. Sections for graded and ungraded bands, youth and training bands, all own choice test pieces, and an entertainment section open to any band. For full schedule and entry form please contact the Secretary, Fran Calver on 01208 851235 or email frances.calver@tiscali.co.uk Lower Brass Spotlight Workshop - Black Dyke Band Brass Arts Festival - Gandhi Hall, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, Leeds - afternoon. With David Thornton and Joseph Cook - for baritone, euphonium and bass players. Free admission from David Thornton, thorntoneuph@hotmail.com or Joseph Cook, 07773 374064 NABBC Conductors' Competition Regional Heat - Avon/Somerset - with the Portishead Band  Seddon Festival in the Park - Harris Reserve, Seddon, Melbourne, Australia. The Hyde St. Youth Band opens the show at 3pm. Other acts include Head Under Ground, The Mercurials, Ross Hannaford Trio, The Trips & Three2One. Children's activities and gourmet food/drink from local eateries. Black Dyke Band - Black Dyke Band Brass Arts Festival Gala Concert - Gandhi Hall, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, Leeds, 7.30pm. Tickets, £10, from 0113 224 3801 British Airways Brass Band - Music from the Silver Screen - with guest Brian Neal, piano - St. Mary's Parish Church, Church Street Slough, 7.30pm. Tickets £10 at the door, with ALL proceeds going to the ClickSargeant Children's Cancer Fund. Garforth Brass + Castleford Gilbert and Sullivan Society - Civic Hall, Castleford Laganvale (Metal Technology) Band - Bridgewater Outlet, Banbridge 2.30pm Leyland Band - The Corn Exchange, Ipswich, 7.30pm Moulton 77 Brass Band - Holy Sepurchre, 7.30pm Mount Charles Band - Boconnoc Spring Flower Show, 12pm Virtuosi GUS Band - Music in Springtime - St. Andrews Church, Kettering, 7.30pm. Tickets 01536 410266 6 April Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Bishop FM (S W Durham) - 6-7pm. An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus news and views from the banding world with Val and Michael Fryer. Band information and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. 155a Newgate Street, bishop Auckland DL14 7EN Brass Band Podcast - A 20 minute podcast of Brass Band music produced usually once a week for your entertainment and to keep you informed of events in the world of brass Band music. Click here for details of upcoming podcasts Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. BBC Radio Bristol (94.9FM), Devon (103.4), Cornwall (95.2), Gloucestershire (104.7), Somerset Sound (1566AM), Jersey (88.8FM), Guernsey (93.2), Swindon (103.6), and Wiltshire (104.3), 7.05pm-8pm. Requests and comments welcome via email - brassmanpgh@uwclub.net, telephone: 01752 843919. Sunday Bandstand - [Listen Live!]. Presented by Chris Helme. Phoenix Radio, 96.7FM, 2pm-3pm. [Calderdale area] Comments welcome via email - sundaybandstand@phoenixfm.co.ukt. 22nd Annual Pogson Bray Trust Brass Band Contest - Whitcliffe Mount School, Cleckheaton, West Yorks, 10am. 3 Sections - Section C (Junior/Youth Bands), Section B (3rd, 4th Section and unregistered), Section A (1st, 2nd, Championship Section). Sections C and B - 3 Verses from Red hymn book + own choice test piece. Section A - March + own choice test piece. Further details from Alan Kaye, 01924 466611. LBBA Slow Melody and Quartet Festival - Groby Community College, 10am. Open to all brass and percussion players. Details from www.lbba.org.uk SCABA Spring Contest - Five sections including Youth. Own choice test piece and march - Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, Sussex, BN3 4AH. Details from Ian Carter, idcart@globalnet.co.uk NABBC Conductors' Competition Regional Heat - Huddersfield - with the Lindley Band Arrow Valley Brass + Shipston Town Band - Civic Hall, Stratford upon Avon, 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (£6) from the Civic Hall Box Office Tel. 01789 207100 Black Dyke Band + Yorkshire Youth Brass Band - Black Dyke Band Brass Arts Festival - Gandhi Hall, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, Leeds, 2.30pm. Tickets, £10, from 0113 224 3801 Camborne Town Band - Cornish Pirates Rugby Match, Camborne Rugby Ground, 2pm Jackfield Band - Telford Town Centr Mount Charles Band - Boconnoc Spring Flower Show, 12pm Sellers International Band - Huddersfield Town Hall, 7pm United Co-op New Mills Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm United Co-op Yorkshire Brass Band - Bingley Arts Centre 7 April Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Selby Abbey 8-12 April Downton Band + Studio Theatre - Brassed Off - Studio Theatre, Salisbury 9 April Brass Encounters - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time World of Bands - - [Listen Live!] - 3SER fm, 97.7, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wednesdays, 9am - 12pm Eastern Australian Daylight time Golborne Brass Band - Lowton Civic Hall, 7.30pm 10 April Hilgay Silver Band - Sergeants' Mess RAF Marham, 7.30pm 11 April Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Killamarsh Silver Band - Killamarsh Parish Suite, 7.45pm 12 April NABBC Conductors' Competition Regional Heat - Caerphilly - with the Newbridge Band Derwent Brass + Treorchy Male Choir - Assembly Rooms, Derby, 7.30pm. Tickets £11 to £15 + concessions from 01332 255800 Enfield Brass Band - Spring Gardening Show, Capel Manor, 11.45am Golborne Brass Band - Latchford Baptist Church, 7.30pm Gresley Colliery Band - Gresley Old Hall Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Macmillan Castle Theatre, Wellingborough Hade Edge Band - The Venue, Barkisland, 9pm Jackfield Band - Much Wenlock Parish Churc Knighton Town Silver Band + Ludlow Male Voice Choir - Knighton Community Centre, 7.30pm. Admission £6 concessions £5. For more informtion contact Sue Williams email sue.williams@btinternet.com or 07943 872783 Leyland Band - Opera House, Blackpool, 7.30pm Markham and District Colliery Band - Blackwood Little Theatre, 7.30pm Meltham and Meltham Mills Band - St Bartholomew's Church, Meltham, 7.30pm Michelmersh Silver Band + Caldicot Male Voice Choir - Romsey Abbey, 7.30pm Northallerton Silver Band - Zetland Centre, Richmond, 7.30pm Otley Brass Band - Otley Methodist Church, 7.30pm Ripon City Band + York City Gospel Choir - Ripon Salvation Army Celebration Concert - Ripon Catherdal, 7pm. Tickets £7.50. Details from Steve Noble, 01765 600 933 / 07767 336707 Roberts Bakery Band + Warrington Male Voice Choir - Winsford Civic Hall, Winsford, 7.30pm 13 April Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Bishop FM (S W Durham) - 6-7pm. An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus news and views from the banding world with Val and Michael Fryer. Band information and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. 155a Newgate Street, bishop Auckland DL14 7EN Brass Band Podcast - A 20 minute podcast of Brass Band music produced usually once a week for your entertainment and to keep you informed of events in the world of brass Band music. Click here for details of upcoming podcasts Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. BBC Radio Bristol (94.9FM), Devon (103.4), Cornwall (95.2), Gloucestershire (104.7), Somerset Sound (1566AM), Jersey (88.8FM), Guernsey (93.2), Swindon (103.6), and Wiltshire (104.3), 7.05pm-8pm. Requests and comments welcome via email - brassmanpgh@uwclub.net, telephone: 01752 843919. Sunday Bandstand - [Listen Live!]. Presented by Chris Helme. Phoenix Radio, 96.7FM, 2pm-3pm. [Calderdale area] Comments welcome via email - sundaybandstand@phoenixfm.co.ukt. Besson National Youth Brass Band Championships (Junior, School, Community, County and Open Classes) - Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RD, from 9am. Entry details from Arnold Tattersfield, the Championship Administrator, BFBB, tel: 01226 771015 or see www.bfbb.co.uk. Brass Band Festival - Middlesbrough Town Hall - Tickets are free and are available through Middlesbrough Town Hall box office on 01642 729729 Kippax Entertainment Contest - Heat 1 (Drighlington Band + Wakefield Metropolitan Band) - Kippax Band Social Club, Mount Pleasant, Kippax, Leeds, LS25 7AT, 8pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - 10th Anniversary Craft & Garden Show - Thrumpton Hall, times tbc. Chadderton Brass Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Enfield Brass Band - Spring Gardening Show, Capel Manor, 11.45am Glossop Old Band - Band Room, Wood Street, Glossop, 8pm Helston Town Band - Carnglaze Caverns Littleborough Public Brass Band - Piece Hall, Halifax, 12.30pm Marple Band - Marple Social and Forces Club, 8.30pm Newland Concert Brass - Sponsored March, Bathgate Redbridge Brass - Kenneth More Theatre, Oakfield Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1BT, 3pm. Tickets: £8.50 (conc. £6.50) from 020 8553 4466 Vernon Building Society Poynton Brass Band - Poynton Civic Hall, 7pm 14 April Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Hawk Green Band - Marple Cricket Club, 8pm Nailsworth Silver Band - Civic Reception, Nailsworth Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass - Gladstone Theatre, 7pm 16 April Brass Encounters - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time World of Bands - - [Listen Live!] - 3SER fm, 97.7, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wednesdays, 9am - 12pm Eastern Australian Daylight time Riviera Concert Brass - Furrough Cross Church, Torquay, 7.30pm 17 April Skelmanthorpe Band - Cedar Court Hotel Whitwell Brass Band - Community Centre, Whitwell, 7.30pm 18 April Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Cottenham Brass Band - Fawcett School, Trumpington, 7.30pm Foden's Richardson Band - Transport Festival - Sandbach Lofthouse 2000 Brass Band - Bradford, 7.30pm Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass + Sutton Male Voice Choir - St. Thomas, Ellesmere Port, 7.30pm Reeth Brass Band - St. Mary's Church, Arkengarthdale, 7.30pm Swindon Brass - RAF Lyneham, 7.30pm United Co-op Milnrow Band - Masonic Hall, Richard St, Rochdale Wardle Anderson Brass - Holy Trinity Church, Littleborough, 7.30pm YBS Concert Brass Band - St Pauls Church, Shipley, Bradford, 7.30 pm 19 April Fife Brass Band Festival - Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, 9.30am. Concert program contest. Amersham Band - St. Mary's Church Barnsley Building Society Brass Band - Emmanuel Church, Barnsley, 7.30pm Bournemouth Concert Brass - City Hall, Salisbury, 7pm Freckleton Band - St. Cuthberts Church, Church Road, Lytham, FY8 5QL, 7.30pm Glossop Old Band - Central Methodist, Glossop, 8pm Golborne Brass Band - Penketh Methodist Church, 7.30pm Gresley Colliery Band - Mancetter Church, Atherstone Ifton Band + Gobowen School Choir - Gobowen School Ilkeston Brass - Chilwell Golf Clu Jackfield Band - Penn United Reform Church Langley Band - St Paul's Blackheath Leyland Band - King George's Hall, Blackburn, 7.30pm Lindley Band - St Pauls Church, Huddersfield, 7.30pm Lingfield Silver Band - St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Lingfield Long Eaton Silver Prize Band + Radcliffe-on-Trent Male Voice Choir- St. Laurence Church, Long Eaton Lympstone Band - Exeter Chiefs Rugby match - Sandy Park, Exeter, 12.30pm Maltby Miners' Welfare Band - All Saints Square, Rotherham Market Rasen (RPC) Band - Festival Hall, Market Rasen, 7.30pm Marlow Town Band - Frieth Theme Dinner, Frieth, 7pm Morecambe Band - Carnforth Town Crier, 11am Moulton 77 Brass Band - Kingsley Park Terrace, Methodist Chapel, 7.30pm Murley Silver Band - 10 Hour Music Marathon - Wesleyan Hall, FMT, 10am-8pm Newhall Band - Assembly Rooms, Tamworth, 7.30pm Otterbourne Brass - St Andrews Eastleigh, 7pm Pemberton Old Wigan Band - Subscription Rooms, Stroud, 7.30pm. Enquiries: 01453 765753 Penrith Town Band - Carlisle Bandstand, 11.30am Phoenix WM Brass - St Georges Day Concert, Cradley Heath SA PolySteel Band - Bacon Theatre, Dean Close, Cheltenham, 7.30pm Ringwood and Burley Band - Ringwood Church Rothwell Temperance Band - Lidgett Park Methodist Church, Leeds, 7.30pm Rushden Windmill Brass Band - St Mary's Church, Ringstead Shirland WT Band - Proms - Sutton Centre Shrewton Silver Band - Films and Showtime Concert - Durrington Village Hall, Durrington Near Salisbury, Wilts, 7.30pm. A lively and varied programme of Film and Stage Themes. Tickets available on the door -Adults £5.00 and Children £3.00. For further information or enquiries contact us via the website. Light refreshments available on the night. Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - Hymnathon, St Cuthbert's Church, Pateley Bridge, 10am Towcester Studio Band - St Lawrence Church, Towcester Wadhurst Brass Band - Greyhound Pub, 1pm Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Holyport War Memorial Hall, Moneyrow Green, 7.30pm Ware Brass - The Priory, High Street, Ware, 7.30pm Wrentham Band - Pontins, Pakefield, 3pm YBS Band - Morley Town Hall, Morley 20 April Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.comBrass Band Podcast - A 20 minute podcast of Brass Band music produced usually once a week for your entertainment and to keep you informed of events in the world of brass Band music. Click here for details of upcoming podcasts Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. BBC Radio Bristol (94.9FM), Devon (103.4), Cornwall (95.2), Gloucestershire (104.7), Somerset Sound (1566AM), Jersey (88.8FM), Guernsey (93.2), Swindon (103.6), and Wiltshire (104.3), 7.05pm-8pm. Requests and comments welcome via email - brassmanpgh@uwclub.net, telephone: 01752 843919. Sunday Bandstand - [Listen Live!]. Presented by Chris Helme. Phoenix Radio, 96.7FM, 2pm-3pm. [Calderdale area] Comments welcome via email - sundaybandstand@phoenixfm.co.ukt. NABBC Conductors' Competition Regional Heat - Glasgow - with the RSAMD Band Phoenix Brass Band Festival Entertainment Contest - John O'Gaunt Community Technology College, Hungerford, from 11.30am. Massed Bands concert at 7.30pm RSAMD Brass Day 2008 - Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, from 1pm. Free admission. Concerts on the hour, every hour, from a variety of bands and ensembles including Kirkintilloch Band, Whitburn Band, Scotia Brass West Lothian Schools Band and Royal Scottish Academy Brass. Also workshops and masterclasses from artists including Simone Rebello and James Gourlay. Burbage Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Camborne Town Band + Holman Climax Male Voice Choir - Redruth Wesley Chapel Cinderford Brass Band - Forest Hills Golf Club Creswell Colliery Brass Band - Rufford Country Park, 2pm Glossop Old Band - Formby Hall, Atherton, 8pm Golborne Brass Band - St George's Day Parade - Leigh Gosport Silver Band - Thorngate Halls, Bury Road, Gosport, 2.30pm Langley Band - Dartmouth Park Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - St. Georges Parade, Long Eaton, 1.30pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Old Anchor Inn Fishlake, 2pm Martlesham Brass - St George's Day Parade, Felixstowe, 1.30pm Martlesham Brass Preliminary Band - Landseer Road Methodist Church Maxilead Metals Tyldesley Band - St George's Day Parade, Atherton, 1.30pm Nailsworth Silver Band - St. George's Day Concert, Box Village Hall Newhall Band - Stapenhill Gardens, Burton, 3.30pm Norham Village Band - "Songs of Praise" - Coldstream, 2pm Pendeen Silver Band - Tregothan Gardens Truro, 1.30pm Radcliffe Band - St George's Day Parade - Victoria Pub, Ainsworth Road, Radcliffe, 1.45pm RMT Easington Colliery Band - Wedding Fayre - Lumley Castle, 1pm Royston Town Band - Royston British Legion, 7.30pm Sellers International Band - St Pauls Hall, Huddersfield University, 7pm Slaithwaite Band - Slaithwaite Band Club, 7.30pm St Sebastian Wokingham Band - St. George's Day Parade - Henley-On-Thames, 2pm Stannington Brass Band - Niagra Lesiure Complex, Niagra Road, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield Stockport Brass - Sale Sharks v Newcastle, 3.30pm Tintwistle Band - St. Georges Day Parade, Glossop Tiverton Town Band - St George's Parade, Tiverton Tottington Public Band - St. George's Day Parade - Prestwich, 2pm Wantage Silver Band - St. George's Day Parade, Faringdon, 1.30pm Welbeck Estates Brass Band - Nottingham Castle Wetherby and District Silver Band - St. George's day Parade - Sherburn in Elmet, 2pm 21 April Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Cadishead Band - Spring Concert - Irlam Catholic Club, Liverpool Rd Irlam, Manchester, 8pm 22 April Lindley Band - Huddersfield Town Hall, 7pm 23 April Brass Encounters - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time World of Bands - - [Listen Live!] - 3SER fm, 97.7, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wednesdays, 9am - 12pm Eastern Australian Daylight time Leyburn Band - The Picture House (Elite Cinema) Leyburn , 7.30pm Moray Concert Brass - Hythehill Primary School, 7.30pm Old Hall Brass - Royal Oak, Standishgate, Wigan. 8pm Pilling Band - Great Eccletston WI, 7.30pm Slaithwaite Band - Penistone Line Music Train, departing Huddersfield 19:17 Staffordshire Band - Walsall Town Hall, 7.30pm 24 April Blaenavon Town Band - Coleg Gwent Ebbw Vale Campus, College Road, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, 7pm Rogerstone Band + Bassaleg School Choirs - Griffin Hall, Bassaleg School, Newport, 7pm Rushden Mission Band - Hope Methodist Church, Park Road, Rushden, 7.30pm United Co-op Milnrow Band - Masonic Hall, Middleton 25-27 April  Grenland International Brass Festival - (Championship, 1st, 2nd and 3rd section) - Own choice and compulsory short concert programmes plus test pieces. Skien, Norway. Details see website or email festival@grenlandbrass.com or phone +47 908 33 299 25 April Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Amesbury Town Band - SUAS Dinner - Boscombe Down Officers' Mess, 8pm Bedford Town Band - Putnoe Heights Church, 7.30pm Friezland Brass Band - St. Paul's C.E, Church, Royton, 7pm Haslingden & Helmshore Band - Proms Concert - St Mary's Chambers, Rawtenstall Holbeach Town Band - Whaplode Drove Church, 7.30pm Ipswich and Norwich co op Band - Patrons Concert, Ipswich, 7.30pm Knottingley Concert Brass Band + Castleford Male Voice Choir - Central Methodist Church, Pontefract, 7.30pm Marple Band - Marple Hall School, 8pm Roberts Bakery Band - Sandbach Town Hall, 7.30pm Stockport Silver Band - Spring Concert - St Matthew's Church, Edgeley, Stockport, 7.30pm. Tickets £3. Details from Kathryn Holroyde (Secretary) 07946 461260 Thurcroft Welfare Band - St Anne's Church, Worksop, 7.30pm Wingates Band - Greenfields Social Club, Westhoughton 26-27 April Northumberland Festival of Brass - Newbiggin Leisure Centre, Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland 26 April NABBC Conductors' Competition Regional Heat - Gravesend - with the KM Medway Band Amington Band - Tamworth Castle Grounds Barton Town Band - St Mary's Church, Barton, 7.30pm Cardiff Canton Band - Music in the Park - march from the Salvation Army Hall, Commercial Street, Risca Park, 4pm Cardiff Canton Band + Treharris Singing Company - Music For A Spring Evening - Risca Salvation Army, Commercial Street, Pontymister, 7.15pm. Donation ticket £3 (at the door) Castleton Brass + Suffolk Constabulary Male Voice Choir - St. John the Baptist Church, Cauldwell Hall Road Cheltenham Silver Band - Highnam Court Spring Fair Chinnor Silver Band - St John the Baptist Church, Little Marlow City of Wolverhampton Brass Band - Holy Trinity Church, Heath Town Dunchurch Brass Band - Dunchurch Village Hall, 7.30pm Foresters Friendly Society Brass - Foresters Concert - Stowmarket, 2.30pm Haslemere Town Band - Chiddingfold, 7.30pm Haworth Band + Christine Quirk, Mezzo Soprano - Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels, Haworth, 7.30pm Highley Colliery Band - 15th Aniversary Concert - Severn Centre Highley Hitchin Band - St Swithuns Church, Sandy, 7.30pm KM Medway Band - NABBC workshop with Roy Newsome - Gravesend KM Medway Concert Brass - Christ Church, Bexleyheath, 7pm Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - Moorland Methodist Church, Lincoln. 7pm Lindley Band - St Cuthbert's Birkby , 7.15pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band + Radcliffe-on-Trent Male Voice Choir - St. Laurence Church, Long Eaton Market Rasen (RPC) Band - Caistor Town Hall Mossley Band - Kendal , 7pm Murley Silver Band + Harlandic Male Voice Choir - Wesleyan Hall, FMT Newhall Band + Leaside Singers - Pingle School, 7pm Newmount Brass - St Thomas' Road Church, Normanton, 7.30pm Newport Borough Brass - St Woolos Hospital - Newport Norfolk Wherry Brass - St Catherine's Church, Ludham, 7.30pm Northallerton Silver Band - Catterick Garrison Church, 7.30pm PolySteel Band - Pershore Abbey, 7.30pm Poulton-le-Fylde Brass Band - Knott End Golf C Ratby Co-operative Mid Band - Kirby Muxloe Community Centre, 7.30pm Raunds Temperance Band - Wellingborough School, 7.30pm RMT Easington Colliery Band - Easington Lane, 7pm Sale Brass - United Reform Church, Ashton on Mersey, 7.30pm Sidmouth Town Band + River City Chorus - Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth Skelmanthorpe Band - Pilling Lane South London Fellowship Band - The Salvation Army, The Grove, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 1DX, 7pm Stannary Brass Band - Tavistock Sings, Bedford Square, Tavistock, 11am Stannington Brass Band - Lomas Hall, Stannington, 7.30pm Syston Band - St Mary's Church, Sileby Taverham Band - St Marks Church Lakenham, Hall Road, 7.30pm Thornton Cleveleys Brass Band - HMS Ganges Association - Norbreck, 6pm Todmorden Community Band - St Mary's Church, Todmorden, 7pm Towcester Studio Band - Kislingbury Church United Co-op Yorkshire Brass Band - Lancaster Cathedral Verwood Concert Brass - The Hub, Verwood, 7.30pm Vintage Brass + the award winning Highcliffe Junior Schools Choir - All Saints church, Castlemain Ave, Southbourne, Bournemouth, 6pm. Further details, contact pg@hotmail.co.uk Wantage Silver Youth Band - Civic Hall, Wantage Wardle Anderson Brass - St Andrew's Church, Dearnley Wingates Band - Victoria Hall, Bolton Woodhouse Prize Band - Shiregreen March, 10am Yarwell & Nassington Britannia Band - Nassington Church, Church Street, Nassington, 7.30pm YBS Band - St. George's Hall, Bradford Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band - The Crossing, Newcastle Street, Worksop, 7.30pm 27 April Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.comBrass Band Podcast - A 20 minute podcast of Brass Band music produced usually once a week for your entertainment and to keep you informed of events in the world of brass Band music. Click here for details of upcoming podcasts Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. BBC Radio Bristol (94.9FM), Devon (103.4), Cornwall (95.2), Gloucestershire (104.7), Somerset Sound (1566AM), Jersey (88.8FM), Guernsey (93.2), Swindon (103.6), and Wiltshire (104.3), 7.05pm-8pm. Requests and comments welcome via email - brassmanpgh@uwclub.net, telephone: 01752 843919. Sunday Bandstand - [Listen Live!]. Presented by Chris Helme. Phoenix Radio, 96.7FM, 2pm-3pm. [Calderdale area] Comments welcome via email - sundaybandstand@phoenixfm.co.ukt. Northumberland Festival of Brass Contest - Newbiggin Leisure Centre, Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland, from 12pm. Own choice test pieces. Details from tonygriffithsnb@yahoo.co.uk or nbbaemail@yahoo.co.uk or by phone 01670 814595 Barnsley Building Society Brass Band - Stocksbridge Band Club, 8pm Cinderford Brass Band - Forest Hills Golf Club Diggle Band - Diggle Band Club Fairfield Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Haverhill Silver Band - Town Hall, Haverhill Hebden Bridge Band - A Night at the Movies - Church of the Good Shepherd, Mytholmroyd, 7.30pm Helston Town Band + Four Lanes Male Choir - St. Michael's Church, Helston Hook Norton Brass Band - St. Peter's Church, Hook Norton, 7.30pm Keith & District Silver Band - St. Thomas School Lindley Band - Beaumont Park, 1pm Littleborough Public Brass Band - St George's Day parade, The Baum, 4pm Lyme Regis Town Band - RNLI blessing of the boats - The Cob, Lyme Regis Newhall Band - Stapenhill Church, 6.30pm Newstead Band - St. George's Parade, Hucknall, 1.45pm Old Hall Brass - St George's Day Parade, Southport. 1.45 pm Old Silkstone Band - RAF Concert, Woodhall Spa, 2pm Phoenix Brass Band - Rogation Service - Wexcombe Manor Farm, 10am Pilling Band - St Georges Day March - Garstang, 2.30pm Porthywaen Silver Band - Llanyblodwel institute Ramsey Town Band - Manx Music Festival Renfrew Burgh Band - Renfrew Parish Church Ripon City Band - Harrogate Flower Show, 1.30pm Royal Buckley Town Band - St George's Day Parade, Mold Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - ANZAC Service, Cannock Chase Shrewton Silver Band - Market Square, Salisbury St Michaels Brass Band - St Michael's Church, Tonge, Middleton, 10am St Austell Band - Bodmin Asda, 11am St Gennys Silver Band - Rogation Sunday Service, Hallworthy Market, 7.00pm St Sebastian Wokingham Band - St. George's Day Parade - Wokingham, 2pm Stamford Brass - St George's Day Parade - Grantham Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Old Malton Priory Church Thornton Cleveleys Brass Band - HMS Ganges Association - Norbreck, 10am Wantage Silver Band - Rogation Service - Bradfield Wardle Anderson Brass - Beer & Brass Concert - Milnrow Cricket Club, Milnrow Welbeck Estates Brass Band - Acorn Theatre, Worksop, 7.30pm 26 April - 4 May  European Brass Band Championships - Stavanger Concert Hall, Stavanger, Norway 28 April Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week 30 April Brass Encounters - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time World of Bands - - [Listen Live!] - 3SER fm, 97.7, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wednesdays, 9am - 12pm Eastern Australian Daylight time Amington Band - Assembly Rooms, Tamworth, 7.30pm Downshire Brass - Lisnasharragh Primary School Farnworth & Walkden Band - St. Gregory's Club, Farnworth