The line-ups for the forthcoming Yorkshire Reginal Championship to be held at Huddersfield Town Hall on the weekend of the 7th & 8th March have been confirmed.
The schedule will see Saturday 7th March kick-off at 9.00am with the 11 bands competing in the First Section. They will be followed by the 11 contenders in the Third Section (starting around 1.30pm) with the day closing with the 10 Fourth Section bands at around 6.05pm.
Schedule
Sunday 8th March will start at 9.30am with the 10 bands competing in the Second Section, followed by the 12 Championship Section challengers at 3.00pm.
Defending champion Black Dyke has already secured a pre-qualification invitation to the Royal Albert Hall, and will be joined by two other qualifying bands. Two bands from each of the other sections will represent Yorkshire at the Cheltenham National Finals.
Championship Section:
Sunday 8th March
Test Piece: Elgar Variations (Martin Ellerby)
Adjudicators: Stephen Cobb; Mareika Gray
Start: 3.00pm
Black Dyke (Prof. Nicholas J Childs)
Brighouse & Rastrick (Prof. David King)
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery (Allan Withington)
Grimethorpe Colliery (Frans Violet)
Hammonds (Morgan Griffiths)
Hepworth (Ryan Watkins)
Old Silkstone (Norman Law)
Rothwell Temperance (David Roberts)
Skelmanthorpe (Jonathan Bates)
Stannington Brass (Sam Fisher)
Unite the Union (Jonathan Beatty)
Yorkshire Imperial (Ian McElligott)
First Section:
Saturday 7th March
Test Piece: Variations on 'Was Lebet' (Andrew Wainwright)
Adjudicators: Stephen Pritchard-Jones; Gary Davies
Start: 9.00am
BD1 Brass (Jamie Smith)
City of Bradford (Lee Skipsey)
Crofton Silver (Gary Perrin)
Elland Silver (David McGlynn)
Emley (Tim Sidwell)
Hebden Bridge (Vicki Kennedy)
Horbury Victoria (Dean Jones)
Knottingley Silver (Kevin Bekcher)
Lindley (Alan Widdop)
Marsden Silver (Leigh Baker)
South Yorkshire Police (Leigh Baker)
Second Section:
Sunday 8th March
Test Piece: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Philip Harper)
Adjudicators: Jacob De Haan; Philip Wilby
Start: 9.30am
Barnsley Brass (Ben Brickles)
Barnsley Metropolitan (Alex Francis)
Chapeltown Silver (Garry Hallas)
Clifton & Lightcliffe (John Clay)
Hade Edge (Derek Renshaw)
Hatfield & Askern Colliery (Richard Marshall)
Kippax (James Beecham)
Meltham & Meltham Mills (Tom Haslam)
Slaithwaite (Jason Smith)
Strata Brass (David Holling)
Third Section:
Saturday 7th March
Test Piece: Three Howarth Impressions (Gordon Langford)
Adjudicators: Philip Wilby; Jacob De Haan
Start: 1.30 approx
Dinnington Colliery (Jonathan Beatty)
Drighlington (John Roberts)
Dronfield (Roland Spencer)
Huddersfield & Ripponden (Gavin Brown)
Lofthouse 2000 (Lee Whitworth)
Loxley Silver (Lindon Bolt)
Maltby Miners Welfare (Terry Clifford)
Oughtibridge (John Hopkinson)
Rockingham (Fiona Bishop)
Wakefield Metropolitan (Michael Dodd)
Wetherby & District Silver (Craig Ratcliffe)
Fourth Section:
Saturday 7th March
Test Piece: Indian Summer (Eric Ball)
Adjudicators: Alan Fernie; Colum O'Shea
Crookes Brass (Jim Fletcher)
Deepcar Brass (Murray Preston)
Dodworth Colliery M.W. (Charlie Brammer)
Friendly Band (Sowerby Bridge) (Mick Silson)
Garforth Brass (Gordon Eddison)
Gawthorpe Brass '85 (John Edward)
Linthwaite (Tony Robertson)
Queensbury Music Centre (Chris Lewis)
Thurcroft Welfare (Matthew Wright)
Tingley Brass (Allan Briggs)
