Shirebrook Town Council has announced details of its popular 'Open Entertainment Contest' which will take place on the 7th July next year.
The council is one of the most proactive supporters of the brass band movement, and has already announced a full line-up of bands that will be performing summer concerts from July to September.
Concerts
Already booked in for Sunday afternoon concerts are Shirebrook MW (14th July); Pleasley Colliery Welfare (28th July); Deepcar (4th August); Ilkeston Brass (18th August) and Strata Brass (1st September)
The 2019 Shirebrook 'Open Entertainment Contest' on 7th July will incorporate two major changes, with two sections of competition and bands able to perform extended programmes of 20 minutes in duration to coincide with the requirements of the popular Bolsover Festival of Brass later in the year.
Two sections
Section A will be for Championship, First and Second Section bands, with Section B for Third and Fourth Section competitors. The event will take place at Shirebrook Leisure Centre in Mansfield (NG20 8JQ).
There will be no registration requirements and the contest is open to any band to enter, contesting or non-contesting with a generous prize fund seeing the winner in Section A taking home £750, with podium prizes of £400, £200 and £200 for most entertaining Second Section Band.
The winner of Section B will head home with £300, with podium prizes of £200, £100 and £200 to the highest placed Fourth Section band.
The entry fee is £90.
Section A will be for Championship, First and Second Section bands, with Section B for Third and Fourth Section competitors4BR
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