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Besson British Open Competition

Besson has a great British Open competition to enter — so get your thinking caps on today!!!!

Besson
 

There is also another quiz to make sure you take part in today, with Besson offering some great prizes if you can guess the bands in the frame at Birmingham this weekend.

Make sure use your knowledge to pick the bands you think will come out on top at the British Open on Philip Wilby’s ‘Red Priest’.

There are tickets to be won for the 2012 European Brass Band Championships as well as CDs too, so get your tipsters caps on…4BR

Go to:

http://www.besson.com/en/news.php?mode=printNews&nid=811


There are tickets to be won for the 2012 European Brass Band Championships as well as CDs too, so get your tipsters caps on…

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