The draw for the 36th Brass in Concert Championships, which will be held at The Sage Gateshead on November 18th has been announced.
Draw
The draw was made by George Bailey and Jessica Darby of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain before their recent concert in Weston-Super-Mare, with the help of David Bennett and John Woods of the BiC event organising team.
10 out of 11
With ten bands already accepting their invitations out of the usual 11 competitors that take part at the event, an extra draw number was placed in the striped bags (in the colours of both Newcastle United and Sunderland to ensure no local bias!) and picked out in the normal way.
It was later confirmed that Virtuosi GUS had accepted the final place on offer to compete at the Championship for the first time since 2000.
Full Draw:
1. Brighouse & Rastrick
2. Exchange Communications Whitburn
3. Co-operative Funeralcare
4. Tredegar
5. Grimethorpe
6. Leyland
7. Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
8. Cory
9. Reg Vardy
10. Fairey
11. Virtuosi GUS
Concert and tickets
Tickets for this year’s World of Brass in Concert on 17th November featuring, Black Dyke Band, Cory and NYBBGB are now on sale at £22.00, £18.00 and £12.00.
Tickets for the Brass in Concert Championships on Sunday 18 November are priced at £27.00, £21.00 and £14.00.
All are available from the Sage Gateshead website at www.thesagegateshead.org
