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
- 12 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
- 12 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
- 12 April 2020
The lyrics for “The Lark in the Morning” appear in Broadside Ballads from the late 18th century to the mid-19th as well as from oral tradition across Britain, Ireland and beyond.[i] The song is associated with several different melodies. Folk song collector Rev Sabine Baring Gould noted two distinct tunes
Merv Davey- 7 April 2020
Contesting On the 3rd May 1913 Indian Queens Band held its only contest or, possibly, the only one for which we have found a report. It was given the grand title of the Mid-Cornwall Bandsmen’s Festival and County Brass Band Contest and Herbert Scott, of Besses of t’ Barn
- 6 April 2020