Twenty-nine bands are lined up to provide a feast of music at the Buxton Brass Band Festival next Sunday (4th May).

The day at the Pavilion Gardens will start at 9.45am. The adjudicators are John Berryman for Third, Second and Championship with Steve Pritchard-Jones judging the thirteen bands in the Fourth Section.

Competing bands are:

Championship/First Section:
Bedworth Brass (Stephen Tighe)
Drighlington (Kevin Belcher)
Harrogate (David Lancaster)
Newstead Brass (Duncan Beckley)
Pemberton Old Wigan JJB (Mark Peacock)
The Staffordshire Band (Simon Kerwin)
Vernon Building Society Poynton (Alan Lawton)

Second Section:
Barton Town (Garry Oglesby)
Eccleston Brass (Ian Bateson)
Haslingden & Helmshore (David Holland)
Hoover (Bolton) (Adam Cooke)

Third Section:
Hawk Green (Marple) (Philip Pavey)
Oughtibridge (Roland Spencer)
Skelmersdale (Andrew Booth)
Matlock (Roger Jepson)

Fourth Section:
Besses Boys (James Holt)
Burbage (Buxton) (Steven Critchlow)
Denton Brass (Jonathan Davies)
Fairfield (Buxton) (Jim Henson)
Farndon & District (Milne Robertson)
Greenfield (Stuart Black)
Hazel Grove Brass (Nigel Beasley)
Linthwaite (David Smith)
Lostock Hall (John Wood)
Parr (Richardson Ltd.) St Helens (Russell Prescott)
Uppermill (Alan Widdop)
Trentham Brass (Mike Caveney)
Tottington Public (Matthew Ryan)