Oughtibridge Brass Band celebrate contest success as they come 4th out of 10 at a local entertainment contest.

Oughtibridge Band took part in the 2nd Annual Kiveton Community Woodland Brass Band Festival last weekend (18 July 2010). The contest takes place at the former Kiveton Colliery Tip, which has recently been restored to forestry land and is now a community woodland area under the management of the Forestry Commission. The entertainment contest takes place in the "arena", an open air venue created for performances like this. The bands sit in one tent, the adjudicators in another and the audience in the open air.

The band were second on stage and performed to a small, but appreciative audience. The music played was:

Just a closer walk - A New Orleans style funeral march, which featured the "Oughtibridge Strollers" a few members of the band with appropriate headwear opening the concert.

Castell Coch - A traditional Brass Band march

Lledrod - A Welsh hymn arranged by the band's conductor, Alan Coe.

The Muppet Show Theme

Charter Fair - 4th mvt from The Haslemere Suite - A Russian influenced movement.

The band felt they performed really well and were clearly not alone as Stan Lippeat (the Adjudicator) felt the band played the second best march of the day. This helped the band secure fourth place and a prize for "Best 4th Section/ Unregistered Band not in first three places". This was a fantastic result given the quality of the opposition, most notedly Dronfield Band (current Butlin's Mineworkers Champions) and Thurcroft Band (2nd at last year's Yorkshire Areas).

Many thanks to the players who stepped in to fill the few vacant seats and also to Rachael and Aidan from our training band who did a fantastic job holding the soloist stands in the windy conditions!

Pictures courtesy of Chris Batty.

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