Bandsmen's sounds and royal notes for Bugle

The famous Bugle Contest will host the presentation of the Royal Trophy for the 100th time this year.

Thursday, 09 May 2013

24 bands will compete at the 89th West of England Bandsman’s Festival in Bugle, Cornwall on Saturday 15th June.

March to the field

Competitors will set off at 10.00am on the traditional march through the village to the contest field, before taking part in the famous open air contest.

Entries this year range from training bands up to the Championship Section, who will play for the honour of being awarded the £1000 cash prize and the prestigious Royal Trophy, which will be presented, for the 100th time, by Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, Colonel Edward Bolitho OBE.

Royal Trophy

HRH Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, has presented a special certificate to be awarded to the winners of the Royal Trophy in its centenary year and has contributed a foreword to the programme.

Also marking the centenary of the Royal Trophy is the choice of the march of the same name, as a written originally for the Festival in 1927 by William Rimmer.

George Lloyd

The Festival is also marking the centenary of the Cornish composer, George Lloyd, born in St Ives on 28th June 1913, by choosing ‘English Heritage’, as the set work in the Championship Section.

Adjudicator Philip Harper is making his first visit to the event, with two test pieces in the lower sections written by him.

Harper

Bands from all over Cornwall have entered, along with competitors from Hampshire, Surrey and Wiltshire, all making their way to the small Cornish clay country village, as they have done from all over the world since 1912.

HRH Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, has presented a special certificate to be awarded to the winners of the Royal Trophy in its centenary year and has contributed a foreword to the programme4BR

Competitors:

89th West of England Bandsmen’s Festival
Saturday 15th June
Adjudicator: Philip Harper

Championship Section:
Egham
Roche Brass
St Austell Town
St Dennis

First Section:
Bugle Silver
Lanner and District
St Pinnock

Second Section:
Bodmin Town
Swindon Pegasus Brass

Third Section:
Camborne Junior Contest
Heyl Town
Tadley Concert Brass

Fourth Section:
Camborne Junior Contest
Indian Queens Silver
Lostwithiel Town
Okehampton Excelsior Silver
Pendeen Silver
Porthleven Town
Tadley Concert Brass

Youth Section:
Mount Charles
St Austell

Training Section:
Indian Queens
Lanner Brass Academy
St Stythians

March to the field commence at 10:00am
Contest commences 11:00am

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