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Results: 2012 Lions Youth Slow Melody

There was a great turn out of players at the recent Lions Youth Band Slow Melody Contest.

Young Lions
 

There was a fine turn out of players at the recent Lions Youth Brass Slow Melody Competition, where over 70 entrants took to the stage to try and catch the ears of adjudicators Davis Thornton and Katie Raisbeck.

With excellent accompaniment provided by Tessa Newton there was plenty of great playing on show too from players from six years of age upwards.

7 Years and Under:
1. Ryan Snelson
2= Bethany Harby & Chloe Capener

8 Years Beginners:
1. Cerys Smedley
2= Eliza Dakin & Arthur Young
3. Jonathan Collet & Adele Jones
Merit Awards: Hannah Mills & Leon Gill

9 & 10 Years Beginners:
1. Anne Capewell 1st,
2= Niamh Ronald, Kai Simpson & Eloise Capener
3 = Oliver Webb & Bethan Griffiths
Merit Award: Lottie Nicholls

10 & 11 Juniors:
1. Monica Capewell
2. James Turner
3. Callum Seddon
Merit Awards: Freya Nicholls & Andrew Beattie

12 Years & Over Juniors:
1. Tarun Pass
2. Rhys Woollam
3. Michelle Holt

13 Years and Under Youth:
1. Sophie Barwick
2. William Dakin
3. Ruth Rhodes
Merit Awards: Lucas Boylan & Catherine Flanders

14 & 15 Years Youth:
1. Sam Boylan
2. Mathew Catlin Ottley
3. Georgia Williams
Merit Award: Oliver Smedley

16 Years and Over Youth:
1. Eleanor Baker
2. Alex Flanders
3. Emma Ashcroft

Groups — Beginner:
1. Ole Puttick, James Cole, Craig Shaw & Jonathan Collett
2. Bethan Griffiths & Niamh Ronald
3. Cerys Smedley & Leon Gill

Groups – Junior:
1. Andrew Beattie & Jake Fletcher
2. Abigail Webb & Suzanna Hudson
3. Emily Gibson & Annabel Goring

Groups – Youth:
1. Alex Flanders & Catherine Flanders
2. Catherine Flanders & Sophie Barwick
3. Richard Rhodes & Cameron Brookes
Merit Award: Caitlin Ottley & Melissa Goodchild

Most Promising Players of the Contest: Eliza Dakin, Michelle Holt & Lucas Boylan.

Lions Youth Awards:

Youth Band Most Improved: Georgia Williams, Ruth Rhodes, Rhys Kerry
Junior Band Player of Year: Daisy Dalton
Players Player: Emily Gibson
Showing Promise: Freya Nicholls, William Brookes, Jake Fletcher
Beginner Band Player of Year: Niamh Ronald
Players Player: Craig Shaw
Bands Person of the Year: Bethany Harby
Most Improved: Leon Gill, Adele Jones

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