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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
Tony Mansell
- 13 April 2020
This was the contest site during the 1940s/50s and may have been the location of the early contests The first series of Mid-Cornwall Bandsmen’s Festivals, better known as Stenalees Contest, began in 1922 and ended with the ninth contest, in 1930. Why it ceased is unknown, especially as it
- 13 April 2020
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
- 13 April 2020