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4BR British Open Quiz: sponsored by Arcomis

Pick which band you think will be celebrating a very special ‘Arabian Night’ on Saturday and you can win a cracking Mnozil Brass prize package.

Arcomins
 

Once again there is a great little prize package sponsored by our friends at Arcomis — as long as you can make an informed musical guess about the outcome of this weekend’s British Open.

Prize package

You can get your hands on two tickets to see the utterly brilliant Mnozil Brass in concert in Cardiff at the Arcomis International Brass Event on Friday 11th October, plus their brilliant DVD’s ‘Blofeld’, ‘Magic Moments’ and ‘Irmingaard’, and their CD’s ‘Almrausch’, ‘Ragazzi’ and ‘Smoke Live’.

Take your pick

All you have to do is pick the band you think will be crowned 161st British Open champion.

Competing bands:

1. Black Dyke
2. Brighouse & Rastrick
3. Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
4. Co-operative Funeralcare
5. Cory
6. Desford Colliery
7. Fairey
8. Foden’s
9. Grimethorpe Colliery
10. Hepworth
11. Kirkintilloch
12. Leyland
13. Milnrow
14. Reg Vardy
15. Seindorf Beaumaris
16. Tredegar
17. Virtuosi GUS

Just take your pick of who you think will come out on top — a favourite band, a guess or even an informed choice...4BR

Clues:

Just take your pick of who you think will come out on top — a favourite band, a guess or even an informed choice...

Closing date:

All answers must be received by 4BR before the start of the announcement of the results on Saturday 7th September.

Previous winner:

The winner of our last Arcomis Quiz was Matt Campbell, who guessed right that Tine Thing Helseth’s Arcomis recital at the Brass Event will take place at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff on Saturday 12th October.

Answers:
E-mail:
E-mail us the answer at: quiz@4barsrest.com

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