ODBBA Contest Line-Up Released

Thirty-Four Bands will be taking to the stage to compete in the forthcoming Oxfordshire & District Brass Band Association Contest. The competition will take place at Marlborough School in Woodstock, Oxford (OX20 1LP) on the weekend of Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd February, allowing bands to showcase preparations ahead of the Regional Championships by selecting their own choice of test piece. The competitors are listed below:

Competing Bands:
Championship Section:
Saturday: 4.30pm
Kidlington Concert Brass (Trevor Jones)
Langley Band (Cliff Parker)
Regent Brass (Paul Archibald)


First Section:
Sunday: 2.00pm
A.W. Parker (Drybrook) Band (Joshua Ruck)
Bedworth Brass (Wayne Ruston)
Cawston Band (Leigh Sharpe)
City of Bristol Brass Band (Ian Holmes)
Hyde Band (Nigel Seaman)
Regent Brass (Paul Archibald)
Shirley Band (Tom Stoneman)
SPAL Sovereign Brass (TBC)
 
Second Section:
Saturday: 2.45pm
Oxford Cherwell Brass (Terry Brotherhood)
Wigston Band (Rob Boulter)
Wotton Under Edge & District (Ian Dickinson)


Third Section:
Sunday: 10.00am
Cheltenham Silver (David Crowe)
City of Bath Brass Band (Martin Perry)
Cubbington Silver Band (Mark Phillips)
Gosport Solent Brass (Colin Garner)
Jubilee Brass (Oxford) Band (Clifford Sadler)
Ocean Brass (Martin Humphries)
Ratby Mid Band (Gary Perrin)
Shipston Town Band (Howard Gibbs)
Tadley Concert Brass (Paul Chapman)
 
Fourth Section:
Saturday: 11.30am
Abbey Brass (Abingdon) Band (Rob Tompkins)
Bletchington Silver Band (Sheldon Barwick)
Brunel Brass Academy (Ben Halstead)
City of Oxford Silver Band (Gareth Coulson)
Coventry Festival Band (Allen Wheelhouse)
Wantage Academy Brass (Nikki Jones)
Witney Town Band (Chris Barker)


Unregistered Section:
Sunday: 4.50pm
City of Oxford Silver Training Band (Catherine Westbury-Cook)
Hook Norton Brass Band (Shaun Humphries)
Watership Brass (Mark Picken)
Yarnton Band (Guy James)

 

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