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4BR Quiz winners

10 lucky quiz winners show off their geography knowledge to get their hands on Van Emmerick CDs.

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10 lucky 4BR readers showed off their geographical knowledge to win one of the Matthew Van Emmerick CDs we were giving away with the 4BR Quiz.

They will now be able to enjoy his latest release — 'Neath Austral Skies, as we will post them out ASAP.

The Question:

The question that needed to be answered was:

Matthew van Emmerik will be performing, adjudicating and presenting master classes as a guest artist at the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival in the USA this week, but in which American state is the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp?

The Answer? Michigan

Many thanks for all those who took the time to e-mail their answers — there was 98% success rate, but the first ten all got it right!

So well done to: Matthew Hill, Steve Coad, Lynda Brown, Stuart Lawson, Lloyd Williams, Julian Ablett, Andy Price, Paul McGrath, Trond Gaupholm and Ronal Krassenburg.

More information:

For more information on Matthew Van Emmerick, go to:
http://www.matthewvanemmerik.com/Matthew_van_Emmerik_Website/News.html

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