Competitors announced for Rochdale
Rochdale Town Hall is once again the setting for this year’s North West Area Brass Bands Association’s Rochdale Contest. The field numbers over 30 bands, however there are less bands competing in the Championship and First sections resulting in these sections being combined. The contests will be presided over by adjudicators John Doyle and Ben Richeton.
NWABBA Chairman and contest organiser Richard Milton commented on the growth of the lower sections, “We have had a fantastic response from bands in the 2nd and 3rd sections which promises to provide some enjoyable performances of a large number of test pieces.”
Two National Champions Oldham (Lees) and Middleton will be attending and many other bands from across the North West will be joined by bands from Yorkshire, Wales and the Midlands region.
Tickets for the whole day are only £7 and available on the door with the fun starting at 9:30am. The full list of competitors can be seen below:
First & Championship Section:
Hade Edge (Jonathan Beatty)
Oldham Band (Lees) (John Collins)
Silk Brass (Tony Wyatt)
Vernon Building Society Poynton (Stig Maersk)
2nd Section:
Besses o’th’Barn (Trevor Halliwell)
Delph (Phil Goodwin)
Farnworth & Walkden (Luke Pallister)
Flixton (Matthew Ryan)
Greenfield (Tom Haslam)
Horwich RMI (Jason Smith)
Ifton Colliery (Scott Lloyd)
Middleton (Kevin Gibbs)
Pemberton Old DW B (Ian Brownbill)
Royal Buckley Town (Keith Jones)
Slaithwaite (Ryan Watkins)
Whitworth Vale & Healey (Christopher Binns)
3rd Section:
City of Chester (Ewan Easton)
Cleethorpes (Brian Harper)
Dobcross Silver (Grenville Moore)
Eccleston Brass (John Wood)
Hoover Bolton (Craig Mann)
Littleborough (Adrian Woodhead)
Pilling Jubilee Silver (Steve Hartley)
Skelmersdale Prize (Ben Coulson)
Thornton Cleveleys (Stephen Craig)
Uppermill (Dean Redfern)
4th Section:
Blackley (Adrian Smith)
Cadishead Public (David Holland)
Parr St Helens (J. Ludden)
Seindorf Beaumaris (Scott Lloyd)
Tewit Silver (Martin Hall)
