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Regional Championships: North West

Section 4 Summary

Year Winners Conductor Test piece
2026 Wardle Community Jane Conway Indian Summer, Eric Ball
2025 Darwen Brass Matthew Balson I, Daedalus, Andrea Price
2024 Stalybridge Old Nigel Lawless Music for Jock Tamson, Alan Fernie
2023 Golborne Les Webb Hungerford Town, Darol Barry
2022 Morecambe Andrew Porter Argos, Stephen Hodel
2020 BMP Europe Ltd Goodshaw David W Ashworth Neverland (Christopher Bond)
2019 Sale Brass John Anderson Stantonbury Festival, Ray Steadman-Allen
2018 Lostock Hall Memorial Joshua Hughes World Tour, Rodney Newton
2016 Thornton Cleveleys Stephen Craig The Journal of Phileas Fogg, Professor Peter Graham
2015 Formby Louise Hough An English Pastorale, Dean Jones
2014 Stacksteads Fred Bowker Three Spanish Impressions, Alan Fernie
2013 City of Chester Philip Mottershead A Devon Fantasy, Eric Ball
2012 Golborne Paul Andrews English Folk Song Suite, Ralph Vaughan Williams
2011 Besses Boys James Holt Prelude, Song and Dance, John Golland
2010 Hazel Grove Nigel Beasley Saint-Saens Variations, Philip Sparke
201 Thornton Cleveleys Stephen Craig St Andrews Variations, Alan Fernie
2009 Eccles Borough Les Webb The Talisman, Frank Hughes
2008 Uppermill A. Widdop Four Cities Symphony - Rodney Newton
2007 Formby L. Hough The Seasons, Philip Wilby
2006 Oldham (Lees) John Collins Anglian Dances, Alan Fernie
2005 Oldham (Lees) J. Collins Divertimento, Brian Kelly
2004 Pemberton Old Wigan B P. Ashley Partita, Edward Gregson
2003 Trinity Girls S. Barton Lydian Pictures, S. Dobson
2002 Timperley G. Hetherington Suite in Bb, G. Jacob
2001 Pemberton Old 'B' P. Ashley Sinfonietta Pastorale, H. Gheel
2000 Diggle D. Morris The Haslemere Suite, P. Graham
1999 Old Hall Brass N. Parkinson Indian Summer, E. Ball
1998 Hazel Grove L. Hall Solemn Melody & Scenes From A Comedy
1997 Old Hall Brass N. Parkinson Pennine Moors, D. Barry
1996 Manx Concert Brass I. Clague Mexican Fiesta, R. Hammer
1995 Trinity Girls W. Carter Little Suite For Brass No. 1, Malcolm Arnold
1994 Normid 2000 Brass D. Newton The Journeymen, Ray Steadman-Allen
1993 Barnton Silver S. A. Yates Impromptu, Eric Ball
1992 Eatons Franworth S. Booth The Seafarers, Bruce Fraser
1991 Fatons Farnworth R. Taylor Four Fors for Brass, William Relton
1990 Warburtons Bakery Bolton A. Marsh Summer Fantasy, Kees Schoonebeek
1989 Eccles Borough M. B. Obermuller Suite For Brass, Mike Davis
1988 Lees & Glodwick T. Holden Stantonbury Festival, R. Steadman-Allen
1983 Bedford M. Brownbill 1st Suite in Eb, Gustav Holst arr. Sydney Herbert
1982 Bedford Church A. Marsh Excelsior, Ronal Hanmer
1981 Bedford Church A. Marsh Fantasy For Brass Bands, Bramwell Wiggins
1979 Delph D. Jennings The Winter's Tale, Reginald Heath, or Overture Blenheim, Arthur Butterworth
1978 Dutton-Forshaw F. Hough Mexican Fiesta, Ronald Hamner
1977 Crewe Co-operative G. Seals Hungarian Fantasy, Albert Jakeway
1976 Middlewich R. Mortimer Voices of Youth, Edward Gregson
1975 Pemberton Old M. Brownbill The Seasons, John Carr
1972 Whaley Bridge Public P. Cordey The Rising Generation, Edrich Siebert
1971 Haydock & Ashton Youth C. Fradley An Ancient Temple, Eric Ball
1970 Bury Silver H. Parry W. Scholes
1965 Poulton-le-Fylde Silver C. Carter English Suite, Dr. Williams Lovelock
1964 Haydock Prize C. Fradley A Rural Suite, Charles Woodhouse, Eric Ball
1962 Blackley Prize G. Cheshire Contest Day, Eric Ball


Harlow Brass Band - SPRING CONCERT - AN ANIMATION SENSATION

Saturday 16 May • St Andrew's Methodist Church. The Stow. Harlow. CM20 3AF


Sherborne Town Band - Free-Music in the park

Sunday 17 May • Dorchester- Park Bandstand DT1 1RG


Newstead Brass - Mansfield MVC - Brass and Voices

Sunday 24 May • Forest Town Arena. Clipstone Road West,. Mansfield NG19 0EE


Contest: Whit Friday March Contests

Friday 29 May • Saddleworth & Tameside OL3


The Hepworth Band - Brassband Burgermusik Luzern

Saturday 30 May • Dewsbury Minster, Vicarage Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF12 8DD


Hathern Band

May 10 • Due to University placement we require a Bb Bass player- we are a First Section band based at our own band room in the village of Hathern LE12 5LJ Leicestershire (between M1 Jcts 23 & 24) and close to Lougborough and Nottingham Universities


Newstead Brass

May 10 • Newstead Brass are on the lookout for a talented 2nd BARITONE player to join our ambitious and hardworking Nottinghamshire-based Championship Section band.. A rare chance to become part of an ambitious brass band striving for even greater success together.


Ibstock Brick Brass

May 9 • Ibstock Brick Brass are looking for a Solo Cornet, 3rd Cornet, 2nd Horn, Bass Trombone and B Flat Tuba as we move into the second section from 2027. We are a friendly, ambitions and progressive band that rehearse at our own bandroom in Coalville.


Jack Capstaff

Bmus (Hons)
Conductor | Composer


               

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