If you want to learn more about this years area pieces, you can hear them next weekend.

Midlands Regional Championship

The Newstead Band will host a Midlands Area preview night on Saturday 22nd February at the Newstead Centre ahead of the contest proper at Bedworth on the 8th/9th March.

Five works

Each of the five set works will be performed by the bands along with a march or a hymn tune with Duncan Beckley and John Roberts offering their comments.

Line up:

Fourth Section: Pleasely Colliery
Three Spanish Impressions for Brass Band (Alan Fernie)

Third Section: Newhall
Partita for Band (Postcards from Home) (Philip Wilby)

Second Section: Shirland
Chaucer’s Tunes (Michael Ball)

First Section: Enderby
Cry of the Mountain (Howard Lorriman)

Championship Section: Newstead Brass
St Magnus (Kenneth Downie)

Where and when

The Newstead Centre is on Tilford Road in Newstead (postcode NG15 0BS) is close to the railway station.

With an admission fee of just £2 next Saturday evening, starting at 7.30pm a Newstead band spokesman told 4BR:

"This event is a great chance for both brass followers and those with a more general musical interest to come along and experience a variety of pieces from the brass band repertoire.

There’s also some friendly inter-county rivalry between the bands as Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire all fight for supremacy ahead of the main contest in Bedworth next month".

Five bands will be in attendance performing all the pieces with Duncan Beckley & John Roberts giving their opinions — 4BR

Further details

For more details please see the Newstead Band website www.newsteadband.co.uk or contact Mike Allcock on 0115 9527435.