Results: Kiveton Community Woodland Festival

Trinity Girls come out on top at Kiveton.

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

The third Kiveton Community Woodland Brass Festival recently took place on the site of the old Kiveton Park Colliery, South Yorkshire.

Organised by the Yorkshire and Humberside Brass Band Association in partnership with Forestry Commission England, the site has been reclaimed to include a natural amphitheatre where the bands performed their 20-minute entertainment programme.

Full entry

Open to 3rd/4th Section and unregistered bands the event had a full entry of twelve competitors who were adjudicated on by Mike Kilroy and entertainment judges Councillor Peter Blanksby and Brenda Bradley.

Results:
1. Trinity Girls
2. Hade Edge Youth
3. Thurlstone

Best Soloist: Gillian Hinkley (Trinity Girls)
Best March: Hucknall & Linby
Best Hymn: Dronfield CMW
Most Entertaining Band: Hade Edge Youth
Most Entertaing Item: Trinity Girls
Best unplaced 4th Section Band: Oughtibridge

Mr Andy Medhurst, Sherwood and Northants District Forest Management Director, expressed delight at the continued success of the contest and the support from the appreciative audience and confirmed that dependant on funding becoming available the Forestry Commission would be supporting the event again in July 2012.

Thanks to Peggy Tomlinson

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