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Regional Championships: West of England

Section 3 Summary

Year Winners Conductor Test piece
2026 St Pinnock Helen Varley Three Haworth Impressions, Gordon Langford
2025 Bratton Silver Kyle Blake Arkansas, Jacob de Haan
2024 Verwood Town Kevin Smith Corineus, Christopher Bond
2023 Porthleven Town Tom Bassett Chorale and Toccata, Stephen Bulla
2020 Poole Borough Lloyd Bartlett Endurance — narrative variations for brass band, Andrew Baker
2019 Gosport Solent Brass Colin Garner First Suite in Eb , Gustav Holst arr. Sydney Herbert
2018 Hatherleigh Silver Matt Green Napoleon on the Alps, Philip Harper
2017 Cheltenham Silver Nigel Galliott Darkwood, Daniel Price
2016 Phoenix Brass (Crewkerne) David Boorer A Cambrian Suite, Michael Ball
2015 Soundhouse Brass Lee Clayson Evolution, Five States of Change, Philip Sparke
2014 Bratton Silver Simon Carr 'Partita for Band' (Postcards from Home), Professor Philip Wilby
2013 Wotton-under-Edge and District Ian Dickinson Hollywood, Goff Richards
2012 Bream Silver Bryn James Olympus, Philip Harper
2011 Sidmouth Town Adrian Harvey A Little Light Music, Philip Wilby
2010 Sidmouth Town Adrian Harvey Labour and Love, Percy Fletcher
2009 Brunel Brass J. Winterflood The Once and Future King, Andrew Baker
2008 Verwood Concert Brass D. Johnson The Dark Side of the Moon, Paul Lovatt-Cooper
2007 Camborne ‘B’ A. Pope Prelude and Jubilate, Darrol Barry
2006 St. Pinnock Peter Minear Entertainments, Gilbert Vinter
2005 Portishead Town Rhodri Griffiths Tam O'Shanter's Ride, Denis Wright
2004 St. Dennis B. Minear Vizcaya, Gilbert Vinter
2003 Michelmersh Silver B. Kelloway Northern Landscapes, P. Graham
2002 Michelmersh Silver B. Kelloway St. Austell Suite, K. Downie
2001 Bream Silver N. Howard Sinfonietta, J. Horavitz
2000 Lympstone South West Telecoms C. Fleming Narnia Suite, G. Burgon
1999 Phoenix Brass G. J. Greenstock Main Street, E. Ball
1998 Phoenix Brass G. J. Greenstock Three Saints, G. Richards
1997 St. Keverne D. Greenwood Tintagel, D. Wright
1996 Yeovil Town R. Hunt Intermezzo, B. Kelly
1995 Stoke Sub Hamdon G. Greenstock Snowdon Fantasy, T. J. Powell
1963 Berry Hill Silver H. Hartley The Rivals, Alfred Ashpole


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.


David W. Ashworth

RSCM, ABBA Exec Member, NABBC PRO.
Conductor, Band Trainer and Adjudicator


               

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