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19 bands ready for Band Supplies Scottish Challenge Shield

There is sure to be a great day of music making in Perth on Saturday with a host of contenders hoping to raise the Band Supplies Scottish Challenge Shield in triumph.

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  Perth Concert Hall will host the Band Supplies Scottish Challenge Shield contest

There is sure to be a great day of competition at Perth Concert Hall tomorrow, with the first weekend of the Scottish Festival of Brass getting underway.

The Band Supplies Scottish Challenge Shield will see 19 First to Fourth Section competitors take to the stage from 9.30am.

The own-choice format will see 16 different test-pieces performed, promising a feast of music-making and a day that should keep the audience and adjudication team of Jim Davies and Kevin Wadsworth well entertained.

Forward thinking

Looking forward to the schedule of events SBBA President Carrie Boax told 4BR: "The inclusive nature of this festival reinforces how forward thinking the Scottish brass band movement is.

We are grateful to our principal sponsors Band Supplies Glasgow and Ronnie Tennant for his support not only of this event, but his support to SBBA throughout the year, and we are delighted that that Perth Concert Hall has been able to facilitate the streaming of this year's senior events and welcome BrassPass.tv during both weekends of the Festival."

The Band Supplies Scottish Challenge Shield will see 19 First to Fourth Section competitors take to the stage from 9.30am4BR

Band Supplies Scottish Challenge


Start: 9.30am
Adjudicators: Jim Davies and Kevin Wadsworth

Arbroath Instrumental (Michael Robertson)
Barrhead Burgh (Alistair Gibson)
Buckhaven & Methil Miners (Andy Shaw)
Clackmannan District Brass (Ross Brotherston)
Coalburn Silver (Gareth Bowman)
Dunaskin Doon (Chris Bradley)
Dysart Colliery Silver (Kenneth Letham)
Granite City Brass (Bruce Wallace)
Johnstone (Martyn Ramsay)
Kilmarnock Concert Brass (Scott Walker)
Kingdom Brass (Paul Drury)
Langholm Town (Chris Shanks)
Newmains & District Brass (Michael Marzella)
Newmilns & Galston (Alan Cameron)
Penicuik Silver (Iain Fleming)
Perthshire Brass (George D Annan)
St. David's Brass (John A Dickson)
St. Ronan's Silver (Kenneth Letham)
UNISON Kinneil (Raymond Tennant)

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