Both head to Cheltenham buoyed by the success and with a brace of informed MDs at the helm. "Take the risk and find the beauty", she said, in referring to the opportunity to, "don't play safe" in the bucolic 'Green' variant. No doubting that as Stephan Hodel's accessible work was played with brio by all the competitors with a special mention to the excellent percussion teams. He emphasised the point; "Tempos, tempos, tempos, tempos". Theres a Jaws influence to the opening and percussion make plenty people in the audience jump with some suitably dangerous sounds! The Scottish Championships 2020, organised by the hard-working Scottish Brass Band Association (SBBA) was held at Perth's wonderful Concert Hall last weekend (7/8 March). Regional Championships 2022 Schedule. Concert march, Walkabout, provides an engaging opening to Dalmellington Brass Academy's programme; sprightly and crisp. This is a terrific piece, laced with catchy tunes and infectious beats and the band seems to enjoy bringing it to the stage in Perth. It ends a fine programme - and a refined performance - of which the band could be proud. Recent News All the Latest RSPBA NI News More News Latest Events Click Here to view all our events Principal Funders Funders It is followed by a trip to warmer climes, in Caribbean Holiday. The adjudicators awarded the band 184 points giving us a 4 point clear victory. There is a religious dimension to Revelation, as the title suggests, though at times, Hepworth is practically devilish as it relishes the faster moving corners of Wilby's score. A Bad Hair Day is neat and well executed before Growing Pains closes St Ronans Future Bands programme with aplomb. Copyright 2022 Brass Band Results & Tim Sawyer, All Rights Reserved, Printed from https://brassbandresults.co.uk/, Scottish Championship (Championship Section), Scottish Area (Daily Herald Qualifying) Contest. Theres attention paid to the light and shade in the music, with the bigger moments of the score really leaping off the page in Boundary Street Brass performance. It could be tight at the top today. Horns rise to the fore before the melody passes elsewhere in this entertaining rendition. There are 23 ensembles in today's events - good luck, everyone! This is a performance imbued with light and shade, while theres an endearing, old-fashioned quality to the sound., which blends so well. Selkirk Silver (Colin Kemp): 1738. The band played Darkwood by Dan Price and were delighted to have won the 3rd Section and our Principal Euphonium Dawn Spence was award the Best Instrumentalist Prize. Theres a warmth to the full band sounds, while percussion adds colour but doesnt get in the way. Not so with Granite City led by Bruce Wallace. After that the placings and marks represented, "how well the bands captured the style of Gordon Langford", but also the "tightness of ensemble" which she said could be heard in the first four bars of the piece. Greenbridge Lane. The players work hard to bring the detail out of the music, from the dotted rhythms to the light and shade which is a familiar characteristic of good march playing. The enormous introduction gives way to scurrying musical lines, most of which spring off the stage. Dysart Colliery (Kenneth Letham): 1784. MD Stephanie Mitchell deserves to be given the freedom of Kintyre. Scottish Championship (Championship Section) - 13th Mar 2022 - Brass Band Results Scottish Championship (Championship Section) Sun 13th Mar 2022 Reset Sort Hide Highlight Previous Event satiche Best Soprano Cornet - Scott Forrest, Whitburn Band Best Cornet - Chris Bradley, Whitburn Band Best Flugel - Lindsay Roxburgh, the cooperation band The band's outstanding young flugel player Iain Lowry took the 'Best Instrumentalist' prize. Its break time here in Perth Concert Hall, after nine strong performances at the 2022 Scottish Open. The familiar strains of Rimmer's march, Slaidburn, open King's Park's programme. Bathgate (Craig Anderson): 1827. Winner 2022 Band Supplies Scottish Challenge Bathgate Band Winner Scottish Open 2022 the cooperation band Winner 2022 Scottish Open the cooperation band Campbeltown Bands Winners of Development and Preparatory Sections 2022 City status means name change for Dunfermline band Monday 13 February, 2023 275 Oxford Street. Renfrew Burgh (Steven Craig): 1854. The Sixth Street Rag sees Alan Fernie pass the baton to music student, Laura Carter, who is clear and concise in her gesture in this jaunty number, which appears to find favour with the players around the stand. Kilmarnock Concert (Scott Walker): 182*2. It's effective musical storytelling from Big Noise Fallin, whose players enjoy healthy support from the audience in Perth Concert Hall. The lines of Chris Bradley (cornet) and Scott Kerr (euphonium) weave in and out with a gentle ebb and flow. Neat and nimble work from basses passes to trombones, who pick up with aplomb, and a neat grooves develops in percussion to underpin brass. There are no paywalls to overcome to be able to enjoy what we do to keep our journalism at the heart of the brass banding world. The errors are sprinkled over a performance which, when its on song, has much to enjoy, including some classy solo sounds. SG1 1LZ 18/19 March Kevin Williams (Regional Secretary): secretary@london.regional-contest.org.uk / 07813 154163 MIDLANDS https://mabbc.org/ New venue: The Core, Corby, Northants, NN17 1QG This is, at times, a rather 'bitty' score but the MD threads it together and helps ensure cohesion to the performance. Members of Fishburn Band get themselves very cosy with each other on the sprawling Perth Concert Hall stage. They will also represent the nation at the European Championships in Malmo in 2023. Copy the URL in your browser's address bar and paste it here. Theres a lush quality to the sound of the band in full tilt, and a classy quality to the solo sounds. They respond well, if not everything quite comes to fruition and moments of tension rise to the fore. The Band results are available here and the Drum Majors results here. document.write('