It was a beautiful day for making great music at Saturday’s Hahndorf Band Festival!

The Bands

There were four other bands in attendance at this years entertainment contest including Campbelltown City Band (D Grade), Hahndorf Town Band (C Grade), K&N Youth Brass (D Grade) and Mitcham City Brass (C Grade).

Even competition

The stage competition was a handicap event with all bands competing against each other in an even competition. Bands in D Grade received a bonus of 15 points and bands in C Grade had 10 points added to their final score.

Winning Programme

Enfield Brass Band's Musical Director, Robert Kavanagh, selected a programme which proved to be enjoyable for both the audience and players.

The band filed ontstage to ‘Strike Up the Band’ featuring percussionist Shayne Tarling, and then moved into ‘Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White’ featuring principal Cornet Mark Hall on Trumpet.

Next came ‘Just a Gigolo’ and then the hymn ‘Mid all the Traffic’. The band finished their set with a medley from the movie ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’.

The band received some excellent feedback about their performance from the audience and very helpful and constructive criticism from the Adjudicator, Peter Doherty.

Results

The results from the day were as follows:

Stage Competition:
Enfield Brass Band, 96
K&N Youth Brass, 91
Mitcham City Brass, 89
Hahndorf Town Band, 85
Campbelltown City band, 83

Street March:
Mitcham City Brass, 47
Enfield Brass Band, 45
Campbelltown City Band, 44
Hahndorf Town Band, 42
K&N Youth Brass, 41

Although a little disappointed at not also taking home 1st prize for the street march, the band played a cracking rendition of the band and crowd favourite, ‘Australia March’ (Dave Polain), and was awarded 2nd place.

Congratulations must go to the Hahndorf Town band and Festival committee for organising such a great event — lets hope to see it on again next year.