SBBA supply Scottish Challenge line-up
The Scottish Brass Band Association (SBBA) has confirmed the line-up ahead of the 2016 Band Supplies Scottish Challenge. Twenty five bands from sections one to four are due to take to the stage in Kilmarnock's Grand Hall on Saturday, November 19, to perform own choice test pieces in a bid to impress the adjudicating team of Alan Fernie and Brendan Wheeler.
Alan Douglas, contest controller told BBW: "The Band Supplies Scottish Challenge is an innovative event which enjoys tremendous support and that is reflected in the high number of entries to this year's contest.
"Bands from sections one to four are part of the lifeblood of the Scottish banding scene and I look forward to welcoming bands, supporters and audience members to Kilmarnock for what is shaping up to be a terrific competition."
The Band Supplies Scottish Challenge forms part of the Scottish Festival of Brass. It will also see the Scottish Open taking place in Perth Concert Hall on November 26, with the Scottish Youth Brass Band Championships also held in the Perth venue on November 26 and 27.
More information on the Scottish Festival of Brass is available by logging on to the SBBA website: www.sbba.org.uk.
List of competing bands:
Annan Town Band
Arbroath Instrumental
Bo'ness & Carriden
Brass Sounds Inverclyde
Campbeltown Brass
Coalburn Silver
Dalkeith & Monktonhall Band
Dunaskin Doon
Dysart Colliery Band
Granite City Brass
Granite City Community Band
Haydock Band
Irvine & Dreghorn Brass Band
J36 Brass
Johnstone Band
Kilmarnock Concert Brass
Mactaggart Scott Loanhead Band
Newmains and District
Newmilns & Galston
Perthshire Brass
South Yorkshire Police Band
Shotts St Patrick's Brass
The Bathgate Band
Tullis Russell Intermediate
Tullis Russell Mills Band
Photo: 2015 - Johnstone Band triumph at the Band Supplies Scottish Challenge.
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