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Nap hand for Macca

Macclesfield Junior Band claim a nap hand of five wins at Festival.

Macclesfield Youth
 

Macclesfield Junior Band is celebrating a fifth consecutive win at the Under 15s ensemble class at Newcastle-under-Lyme Music, Speech & Drama Festival.

Secure title

The 33 young musicians performed ‘Lythbank Suite’ to secure the title for another year and now look forward with a huge boost of confidence to forthcoming National Youth Brass Band Championships in Manchester.

It is testament to the success of the organisation that we have so many young players coming through our system and we are able to maintain the standardMD, Cheryl Slamon

System success

Musical Director Cheryl Slamon told 4BR: "I’m delighted with the way the band played especially as this year, in particular, we have a very young band. It is testament to the success of the organisation that we have so many young players coming through our system and we are able to maintain the standard."

Volunteers

Macclesfield Youth Brass Band has over 120 members in three sections, the Youth band, Junior band and Training band.

Players are taught by volunteer tutors at the band’s weekly rehearsals and most play on instruments provided by the band.

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