2016 British Open report

CROWNING GLORY FOR CORY AT 2016 BRITISH OPEN

Cory Band made its mark on history after winning last weekend’s British Open, when it became the simultaneous holder of four major titles - Brass in Concert, the ‘European’, ‘National’ and ‘Open’. Christopher Thomas provides a full report from the British Open.

'Chris Coleman’s journey with the Welsh national football team to the quarter final of the 2016 European Championship is already the stuff of legend, yet little did the team manager know that, as he prepared his players for the heroics that lay ahead of them in France, just a short journey into the Valleys from the Welsh national football stadium, there is a musical outfit with the credentials to inspire team building at the very highest level.

In a media driven world, we often talk in almost blasé terms about ‘history being made’ and ‘records being broken’, but there is no doubt whatsoever that Cory’s 2016 British Open victory in Birmingham wrote yet another remarkable chapter in the history of a band that remains in towering form to the point that even its rivals speak in hushed and reverent tones about the daunting task of going head to head with it on the contest platform…

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Photo: Cory twins - Thomas and Morgan Blockley