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BAFTA nomination for Battle of the Brass Bands

The Whit Friday episode of the 2019 series Battle of the Brass Bands on Sky Arts has been nominated for a prestigious BAFTA Award.

Battle of the Bands
  The series gained widespread popular and critical acclaim

4BR has been informed that the 2019 Twofour/Sky Arts television series Battle of the Brass Bands series has been nominated for a prestigious BAFTA Award.

Whit Friday

The episode covering the Whit Friday contests has been nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award in the 'Sound: Factual' category and will itself battle for the prize alongside two nominations from the BBC One television series 'One Planet' and the Box to Box/Netflix series 'Formula 1: Drive to Survive'.

The series which also covered the British Ope, National Championships and Brass in Concert contest gained widespread popular and critical acclaim.

The BAFTA winners will be announced at an on-line awards ceremony on Friday 17th July.

A spokesperson for Twofour told 4BR: "We're all chuffed!"

Put together

To watch how Battle of the Bands, including how the sound engineering was created, 4BR was invited down to Plymouth in 2019 to see how it was all put together...

https://www.4barsrest.com/news/38289/the-making-of-battle-of-the-brass-bands

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