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GBBA Contest is closing fast!

Get your entries in for the Gloucester Brass Band Association contest — the closing date is approaching fast!

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Thursday, 02 September 2010

        

4BR has been informed that band secretaries are reminded that the closing date for entries for the Gloucestershire Brass Band Association Annual Test Piece & March Contest is the 17th of September 2010.

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Entry forms and rules can be download from the GBBA website www.gbba-online.org.uk

The adjudicator for this year’s contest will be Paul Holland and the compere will be David Hayward.

Prize money

The 2010 contest will be the first one that the GBBA has offered prize money in Sections A, B & C. Prize money will be £200, £100 and £50 for the top three bands in those sections.

Contest Secretary David Harding can be contacted on 07891 032057 should secretaries have any questions about the contest.

        

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