There will be 52 bands competing for Scottish Championship titles next month after the Scottish Brass Band Association announced its list of bands for the weekend of competition at Perth Concert Hall on the 8th & 9th March.
2025 marks the 130th anniversary of SBBA with the Scottish Championships itself first taking place in 1895.
Schedule
Saturday 8th March will open with the Second Section followed by the Third and First, whilst the following day the running order starts with the Fourth Section followed by the non-contesting Section 4b before the Championship Section.
The defending Scottish Champion is the cooperation band, the whilst the band crowned 2025 winner will be invited to represent the nation at the 2026 European Championships in Linz.
Two bands will be invited to compete at the National Final at the Royal Albert Hall. Two bands in each of the other sections will also be invited to compete at the Cheltenham National Finals in September.
Competing bands:
Championship Section:
Sunday 9th March
Adjudicators: David Barringer and Alan Fernie
Bathgate (Craig Anderson)
Bon-Accord Silver (Adam Cooke)
Bo'ness & Carriden (Phil Chalk)
Coalburn Silver (Gareth Bowman)
Dalmellington (Andrew Duncan)
Kingdom Brass (Katrina Marzella Wheeler)
Kirkintilloch Band (Hedley Benson)
Kirkintilloch Kelvin (Mareika Gray)
the cooperation band (Dr Glenn Van Looy)
Whitburn (Prof Nicholas Childs)
First Section:
Saturday 8th March
Adjudicators: David Barringer and Mark Wilkinson
Clackmannan District (Paul Drury)
Dalkeith & Monktonhall (James Chamberlain)
Dunaskin Doon (Ralph Brill)
Granite City Brass (Bruce Wallace)
Johnstone (Joshua Parkhill)
Kinneil (Allan Ramsay)
Lochgelly (Chris Shanks)
Newmains & District (Paul McKelvie OBE)
Newmilns & Galston (Alan Friel)
Newtongrange Silver (Anne Crookston)
Second Section:
Saturday 8th March
Adjudicators: Mark Wilkinson and David Barringer
Annan Town (Lynda Nicholson)
Broxburn & Livingston (Bryan Allen)
Campbeltown Brass (Andrew McMillan)
Croy Silver (Kenneth Blackwood)
Irvine & Dreghorn (Helen Douthwaite Teasdale)
Jedforest Instrumental (Philip Rosier)
Kilmarnock Concert Brass (Rebecca Wilson Paterson)
Perthshire Brass (Willie McMullan)
Shotts St Patrick's (Charlie Farren)
St David's Brass (John A Dickson)
Tullis Russell Mills (John-Luke Harris)
Third Section:
Saturday 8th March
Adjudicators: Alan Fernie and Stan Lippeatt
Bon-Accord B (Harry Marshall)
Brass Sounds Inverclyde (Alistair Gibson)
Buckhaven & Methil Miners (Steven Craig)
Dysart Colliery (Robert Fraser)
Highland Brass (Mark Bell)
Langholm Town (Chris Bradley)
Peebles Burgh (David McAuley)
Renfrew Burgh (Mark Good)
St Ronan's Silver (Michael Marzella)
Selkirk Silver (Stuart Black)
Fourth Section:
Sunday 9th March
Adjudicators: Mark Wilkinson and Stan Lippeatt
Arbroath & Carnoustie (Neill McDonald)
Coalburn Intermediate (Gareth Bowman)
Dundee Instrumental (Bob McDonald)
Dunfermline City Brass (Stephen Duncan)
Hawick Saxhorn (Andrew Holland)
Kirkton Brass Bathgate (Paul McKelvie OBE)
MacTaggart Scott Loanhead (Amy Paterson)
Pencuik Silver (Jess Purbrick)
Stranraer Brass (Angela Miller)
Turriff Silver (Matt Bailey)
Whitburn Heartlands (Peter Holmes)
Section 4b:
Sunday 9th March
Adjudicator: Mark Good
Brass Central Strathearn (Tom Smith)
Barrhead Burgh (Alan Friel)
Clackmannan District Youth & Development Brass (Luci Lamb)
Forfar Instrumental (Donald Innes)
Stranraer Instrumental Training (Angela Miller)
