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Contesting Not all bands enter competitions and there are some which shun the contest stage, preferring to concentrate their efforts in providing music for local events. For most players, though, contesting has always been an important part of brass banding, the reason that they spend so many hours trying to
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Veryan Brass Band
Veryan is a coastal civil parish and village on the Roseland Peninsula   No celebration was complete without a brass band. (Book of Veryan and Portloe by Diana Smith) 1890s: Veryan Brass Band active. (BBHD / Diana Smith) 1893: Hundreds of people were attracted from a distance to the charming
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The church town of St Allen is an isolated hamlet and the main settlement in the parish is Zelah   Unknown formation date. 1901: We should also like it to be known that the St Allen Fife and Drum Band did good service by assisting the Town Band during the
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