The full line-up of bands that will compete at the forthcoming Yorkshire Regional Championships have been announced by the contest organisers. The event will be held at Huddersfield Town Hall on the weekend of the 4th& 5th March.
Invite
Four bands will be invited to compete at the Royal Albert Hall (Brighouse & Rastrick and Black Dyke are pre-qualified) with two bands from each of the other sections making their way to Cheltenham.
Championship Section:
Sunday 5th March
Test Piece: Pageantry (Herbert Howells)
Adjudicators: Stephen Roberts and Sandy Smith
Draw: 1.15pm
Commence: 3.15pm
Black Dyke (Prof. Nicholas J Childs)
Brighouse & Rastrick (Dr David Thornton)
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery (Erik Janssen)
Chapeltown (Andrew Dennis)
City of Bradford (Lee Skipsey)
Elland Silver (Daniel Brooks)
Grimethorpe Colliery (Phillip McCann)
Hammonds Saltaire (Morgan Griffiths)
Hatfield (Stanley Lippeatt)
Hepworth (Leigh Baker)
Rothwell Temperance (David Roberts)
Strata (Alan Hobbins)
Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel (Russell Gray)
First Section:
Saturday 4th March
Test Piece: Land of the Long White Cloud (Philip Sparke)
Adjudicators: David Hirst and Ewan Easton
Draw: 2.45pm
Commence: 4.45pm approx
Cornerstone (Damian Wileman)
Drighlington (Duncan Beckley)
Hade Edge (Jonathan Beatty)
Hebden Bridge (Robert Savage)
Knottingley Silver (Kevin Belcher)
Lindley (Neil Jowett)
Marsden Silver (Alan Widdop)
Old Silkstone (Sam Fisher)
Skelmanthorpe (Jim Davies)
South Yorkshire Police (Jack Capstaff)
Stannington (Derek Renshaw)
Unite the Union (John Roberts)
Second Section:
Saturday 4th March
Test Piece: Rhapsody in Brass (Dean Goffin)
Adjudicators: Leigh Baker and David Roberts
Draw: 7.45am
Commence: 9.15 am
Clifton & Lightcliffe (John Clay)
Crofton Silver (Dean Jones)
Emley (Garry Hallas)
Frickley/South Elmsall (James Hobbins)
Horbury Victoria (Duncan Beckley)
Kippax (Ian Knapton)
Meltham & Meltham Mills (Tim Sidwell)
Skelmanthorpe Prospect (Philip Garlick)
Slaithwaite (Rob Westacott)
Wakefield Metropolitan (Richard Larder)
Worsbrough Brass (John Hopkinson)
Third Section:
Sunday 5th March
Test Piece: Darkwood (Dan Price)
Adjudicators: Jim Davies and Glyn Williams
Draw: 8.00am
Commence: 10.00am
Armthorpe Elmfield (Haydn Griffiths MBE)
Barnsley Brass (William Rushworth)
Barnsley Metropolitan (Alex Francis)
BD1 Brass (Lee Skipsey)
Dinnington (Lindon Bolt)
Dodworth Colliery M.W. (Eliot J Darwin)
Dronfield Genquip (Robert Straw)
Lofthouse 2000 (Andrew Whittaker)
Maltby Miners (Terry Clifford)
Oughtibridge (Gavin Somerset)
Rockingham (Adam Whittle)
West Yorkshire Police (Kevin Wadsworth)
Wetherby Silver (Derek Warley)
Fourth Section:
Saturday 4th March
Test Piece: St Andrew's Variations (Alan Fernie)
Adjudicators: Mareika Gray and Sandy Smith
Draw: 11.30am
Commence: 1.30 pm approx
Clifton & Lightcliffe 'B' (John Clay)
Deepcar (Cathryn Rogers)
Friendly Band (Sowerby Bridge) (Neil Robinson)
Gawthorpe Brass '85' (John Edwards)
Huddersfield & Ripponden (Adam Bell)
Linthwaite (Paul Kershaw)
Loxley Silver (Lee Dunkley)
Thurcroft Welfare (Matthew Wright)
Tingley (John Belton)
