£10k win secures Flowers hat-trick
The Flowers Band has taken banding’s top money prize in emphatic style for a third consecutive year. Full results from the 2016 Butlin’s Mineworkers Brass Band Championships:
CHAMPIONSHIP SECTION
Set work: Breath of Souls by Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Adjudicators: John Berryman and Michael Fowles
Entertainment set: 23 minutes own choice programme
Adjudicators: Micahel Fowles and Brian Rostron
- Flowers (Paul Holland): 1+1
- Virtuosi GUS (Adam Cooke): 2+3
- Woodfalls (Robert Childs): 5+2
- Reg Vardy (Russell Gray): 3+5
- Desford Colliery (Tom Davoren): 4+4
- Friary Guildford (Chris King): 6+6
- Redbridge Brass (Alan Duguid): 7+7
Outstanding Soloist (Set work): David Childs – Euphonium Flowers Band
Best Basses: Flowers Band
Geoff Dove Soloist Award (Entertainment set): Chris Jeans – Trombone Virtuosi GUS
Most Entertaining Band: Virtuosi GUS
Highest placed mining band: Reg Vardy
FIRST SECTION
Set work: A Celt in Jerusalem by Ian McElligott
Adjudicators: Alan Morrison and Steve Sykes
- Hebden Bridge (Alan Hobbins)
- Drighlington Band (John Roberts)
- Milton Keynes Brass (Craig Patterson)
- Skelmanthorpe (Jim Davies)
- Knottingley Silver (Kevin Belcher)
- Colchester (David Maddocks)
- Becontree Brass (Nigel Taken)
- Foresters Brass 2000 (Jack Capstaff)
- Cornerstone Brass (Damien Wileman)
- Kibworth (David Holling)
- *Gresley Colliery Band (David Purkiss)
- Fulham Brass (John Ward)
- Shirebrook Miners Welfare (Mark Wilcockson)
- Jackfield (Elcock Reisen) (Simon Platford)
- Enderby (Simon Gresswell)
- Langley (Cliff Parker)
- City of Cambridge (Peter Bassano)
- Ireland Colliery (Chesterfield) (Richard Windle)
- Harborough (Chris Groom)
- Whitworth Vale & Healey (John Binns)
*Highest Placed Mining Band
SECOND SECTION
Set work: Fire in the Blood by Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Adjudicators: Leigh Baker and Brian Rostron
- Besses Boys (James Holt)
- Soham Comrades (Jayne Murrill)
- Rushden Town (Adele Hudson)
- *Hucknall & Linby M C (Paul Whyley)
- Stannington Brass (Derek Renshaw)
- Darwen Brass (Steve Hartley)
- Ibstock Brick Brass (Simon Willis)
- Old Silkstone (Sam Fisher)
- Foss Dyke (Simon Oates)
- Haydock (Mark Quinn)
- Pemberton Old Wigan DW 'B' (Mike Golding)
- Ellington Colliery (Lewis Wilkinson)
- Boarshurst Silver (James Garlick)
- Hoover (Bolton) (Craig Mann)
- Middleton (Martyn Evans)
- City of Coventry Brass (Stephen Cooper)
- Cawston (David Stowell)
- Dunston Silver (Aidan Hodgson)
- Norfolk Wherry Brass (Kevin Mann)
- Kippax (Jack Smith)
- Old Hall Brass (John North)
- Golborne (Trevor Halliwell)
- Shirland Welfare (Lynden Cooper)
- Tilbury (Andrew Austin)
*Highest Placed Mining Band
THIRD SECTION
Set work: Platform to the Heavens by Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Adjudicators: Peter Roberts and Barry Thompson
- *Crofton Silver (Dean Jones)
- Greenfield (Tom Haslam)
- Waterbeach Brass (Andrew Kershaw)
- Dronfield Genquip (Simon Kerwin)
- Amington (Malcolm Read)
- Eagley (Matt Ryan)
- Besses o'th' Barn (Simon Cowen)
- Littleborough Public (Adrian Woodhead)
- Pleaseley Colliery Welfare (Geof Benson)
- Skelmersdale Prize (Iain Culross)
- Stamford Brass (Robert Prew)
- East Coast Brass (Paul Speed)
- KP Cleethorpes (Steven Askew)
- Great Yarmouth Brass (Colin Swaep)
- Maltby Miners Welfare (Terry Clifford)
*Highest Placed Mining Band
FOURTH SECTION
Set work: The Seafarers by Bruce Fraser
Adjudicators: Kevin Holdgate and Mike Kilroy
- Sale Brass (Alan Seymour)
- Stalybridge Old (David W Ashworth)
- Crystal Palace (Michael Gray)
- Banovallum Brass (Horncastle) (Steve Ingham)
- *Thurcroft Welfare (Matthew Wright)
- Ynyshir Band (Gary Davies)
- Brighton & Hove City Brass (Matthew Hackett)
- Sherwood Forest Brass (Christine Lippeatt)
- Royston Town (Steve Earley)
- Kirkby Colliery Welfare (Neville Buxton)
- Whitwell Brass (Robert Woffinden)
*Highest Placed Mining Band
YOUTH SECTION
Entertainment set: 20 minutes own choice programme including a march and hymn tune
Adjudicator: Mark Walters
- Youth Brass 2000 (Chris Jeans)
- Wardle Academy Youth (Leigh Rigg)
- Enderby Youth (Trevor Hounsome)
- Gresley Colliery Youth (Duncan Jackson)
Best Soloist: Flugel - Youth Brass 2000
JUNIOR ENSEMBLE
Entertainment set: 10 minutes own choice programme including a hymn tune
Adjudicator: Mark Walters
- Wardle Academy Junior Band (Sean Conway)
- Shirland Training (Lynden Cooper)
- Wigston Enterprise (Matthew Davis)
Best Soloist: Cornet - Shirland Training
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