2024 Saddleworth & Oldham District Whit Friday 

Brighouse & Rastrick retained their Saddleworth & Oldham Whit Friday title performing 'Knight Templar' under the direction of Garry Cutt as the band claimed victories at Delph, Greenfield, Grotton, Lees & Springhead, Scouthead & Austerlands and Uppermill. It meant that the West Riding band banked approximately £9,500 in accumulated prize money

A spokesperson for the band commented on social media, “We are proud to announce that we are the 2024 Saddleworth Whit Friday Champions! With our collection of six 1st place prizes firmly placing us as overall winners. There were some individual prizes picked up too, including Best Solo Cornet, Best Euphonium, Best Basses, Best Bass Trombone and a few deportment prizes too! We are delighted to have brought the title back to Brighouse once again. Thank you to everyone who showed their support for the band on our way round, it makes the day extremely special! A huge thank you also to our fantastic guest professional conductor Garry Cutt, your leadership was fabulous as always.”
 
Results are below and a full review of the event will feature in the next issue of Brass Band World Magazine.
 
Results: Saddleworth & Oldham District:
Area Open Champion:
1. Brighouse & Rastrick (£2,500)
2. Black Dyke: (£1,000)
3. KNDS Fairey (£750)
4. Milnrow
5. Chav Brass
6. Oldham Band (Lees)
7. Hepworth
8. Boarshurst Silver
9. Redbridge
10. Marsden Silver

Local Area Champion:
1. Milnrow (£750)
2. Oldham Band (Lees) (£600)
3. Boarshurst Silver (£400)

Youth:
1. Wardle Academy (£250)

The Saddleworth & Oldham Contests are supported by Oldham Council

https://saddleworthwhitfriday.co.uk/results/

Delph:
Main Prize: £1,200
Prize Fund: £5,000
Adjudicator: Leigh Baker
78 competing bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick (£1,200)
2. Black Dyke (£800)
3. KNDS Fairey (£400)
4. Milnrow (£300)
5. Redbridge Brass (£250)
6. Bad Ass Brass (£200)

Best First Section Band: Boarshurst Silver (£150)
Best Second Section Band: Uppermill (£150)
Best Third Section Band: ClockFace Miners' Heritage (£150)
Best Fourth Section Band: Littleborough (£150)

Best Youth Band: Tewit Youth (£150)
Runner-up: Wardle Academy (£100)

Best Band not in Championships Section: ASB Band (£150)

Best Local Band: Marsden Silver (£150)
Runner-up: Slaithwaite (£100)

Best Saddleworth Band: Diggle (£150)
Runner-up: Delph (£100)

Best Cornet: Brighouse & Rastrick (£40)
Best Euphonium: Brighouse & Rastrick (£40)
Best Trombones: Black Dyke (£40)
Best Basses: Black Dyke (£40)
Best Soprano: Milnrow (£40)

Denshaw:
Main Prize: £1,000
Prize Fund: £3,690
Adjudicator: Allan Holdsworth
60 competing bands

1. Black Dyke (£1,000)
2. Hepworth (£600)
3. Oldham Band (Lees) (£400)
4. Milnrow (£200)
5. Boarshurst Silver
6. KNDS Fairey

Best Saddleworth Band: Boarshurst Silver (£150)
Runner-up: Diggle (£125)

Best Local Band: Uppermill (£100)
Best non-UK Band: Torshavn (£100)

Best First Section Band: Langley (£100)
Runner-up: Middleton (£75)
Best Second Section Band: Audley Brass (£100)
Runner-up: Roughan Silver (£75)
Best Third Section Band: BMP (Europe) Goodshaw (£100)
Runner-up: Comber Silver (£75)
Best Fourth Section Band: Littleborough (£100)
Runner-up: Lambertville (£75)

Best Youth Band: Wardle Youth (£100)
Runner-up: Tewit Youth (£75)

Best Soprano: Black Dyke (£40)
Best Bass Section: Black Dyke (£40)
Spot Prize: Ireland Colliery (Chesterfield) (£100)

First Band: Downton Band
Last Band: City of Bristol

Diggle:
Main Prize: £800
Prize Fund: £3,140
Adjudicator: Helen Douthwaite-Teasdale
62 competing bands

1. Black Dyke (£800)
2. KNDS Fairey (£500)
3. Hepworth (£400)
4. Redbridge (£250)
5. Uppermill
6. Elland Silver

Best First/Second Section Band: Uppermill (£150)
Runner-up: Lindley (£100)
Best Third/Fourth Section Band: Ellington Colliery (£150)
Best Unregistered Band: Chav Brass (£100)
Peter Blacker Prize: Loxley Silver (£60)

Best Saddleworth Band: Oldham Band (Lees) (£125)
Best Youth Band: Tewit Youth (£100)

Holden Cup: Boarshurst Silver (£100)

Best Soprano: Black Dyke (£30)
Best Solo Cornet: Hepworth (£30)
Best Bass Section: Black Dyke (£60)
Best Euphonium: Oldham Band (Lees) (£30)
Best Instrumentalist not in Championship Section: BMP Europe (Goodshaw) (£30)
Best Youth Soloist: Tewit Youth (£50)
Best Band on march: KNDS Fairey (£50)

Dobcross:
Main Prize: £750
Prize Fund: £3,050
Adjudicator: Stephen Tighe
70 competing bands

1. KNDS Fairey (£750)
2. Brighouse & Rastrick (£500)
3. Black Dyke (£400)
4. British Army Catterick
5. Oldham Band (Lees)
6. Milnrow

Best First Section Band: Boarshurst Silver (£100)
Best Second Section Band: Shirland Welfare (£100)
Best Third Section Band: Comber Silver (£100)
Best Fourth Section Band: Reading Spring Gardens (£100)

Best Youth Band: Wardle Academy (£150)
Runner-up: Tewit Youth (£100)

Best Overseas Band: Lambertville Brass Band (£100)
Best Unregistered Band: British Army Band Catterick (£100)
Best Local Band: Oldham Band (Lees) (£100)
Best Saddleworth Band: Diggle (£100)
Best Local Band on Whit Friday morning: Dobcross Silver (£75)

Best Bass Section: Oldham Band (Lees) (£75)
Best Solo Cornet: Black Dyke (£75)
Best Youth Soloist: Wardle Academy (cornet) (£25)
Best Local Youth Soloist: Dobcross Youth (euphonium) (£25)

Most Entertaining Street March: Pendeen Band (£100)

First Band: Slaithwaite (£25)
Last Band: Silk Brass (£50)

Friezland:
All bands excluding Championship, First and Second Section
Main Prize: £200
Prize Fund: £885
Adjudicator: T. Newbigging
42 competing bands

1. Eccleston Brass (£200)
2. Greenfield (£100)
3. Comber Silver (£50)
4. Dobcross Silver
5. BMP Europe (Goodshaw)
6. Diggle Community Band

Best Fourth Section Band: Diggle Community Brass (£100)
Runner-up: Littleborough Brass (£50)

Best University Band: University of Sheffield (£100)

Best Youth Band: Wardle Academy (£100)
Runner-up: Tewit Youth (£50)

Best Solo Cornet: Penrith Town (£50)
Best Basses: Oldham Music Centre Youth Brass (£50)

Deportment: 2nd Rossendale Scout Group (£50)

Best Entertainment: Oldham Music Centre Youth (£50)

Greenfield:
Main Prize: £1,000
Prize Fund: £4,750
Adjudicator: Chris Wormald
62 competing bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick (£1,000)
2. Black Dyke
3. Milnrow
4. Chav Brass
5. KNDS Fairey
6. Boarshurst Silver

Best First Section Band: Boarshurst Silver
Runner-up: Lindley

Best Second Section Band: Audley Brass
Runner-up: Uppermill

Best Third Section Band: 2nd Rossendale Scout Group
Runner-up: Dobcross Silver

Best Fourth Section Band: St John's (Mossley)
Runner-up: Wardle Academy
Third place: Littleborough

Best Youth Band: 2nd Rossendale Scout Group
Runner-up: Wardle Academy

Best Local Band: Milnrow
Best Local Fourth Section Band: St John's (Mossley)

Best Saddleworth Band: Boarshurst Silver
Best Saddleworth Youth Band: Delph Youth

Best Overseas Band: Copenhagen Brass Band

Best Solo Cornet: Brighouse & Rastrick
Best Euphonium: Brighouse & Rastrick
Youth Solo Prize: 2nd Rossendale Scout Group

Deportment: Tewit Youth
Runner-up: Canning City

Entertainment: Trom Bon Jovi
Runner-up: Diggle Community Brass

Prizes are open to bands in current section and below.

Grotton:
Main Prize: £700
Prize Fund: £2,565
Adjudicator: Christopher Bond
48 competing bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick (£700)
2. Milnrow (£350)
3. Foden's (£150)
4. Chav Brass (£100)
5. Oldham Band (Lees)
6. Hepworth

Best First Section Band: Silk Brass (£150)
Runner-up: Flixton (£75)

Best Second Section Band: Uppermill (£150)
Runner-up: Lindley (£75)

Best Third/Fourth Section Band: Dobcross Silver (£150)
Runner-up: BMP Europe (Goodshaw) (£75)

Best Youth Band: 2nd Rossendale Scouts (£150)
Runner-up: Tewit Youth (£75)

Best Local Band: Milnrow (£150)
Runner-up: Oldham Band (Lees) (£75)

Best Scratch Band: Chav Brass (£100)

Best Cornet: Brighouse & Rastrick (£30)
Best Soprano: Hepworth (£30)

Lydgate:
Main Prize: £1,000
Prize Fund: £3,410
Adjudicator: Martin Heartfield
79 competing bands

1. Black Dyke (£1,000)
2. Brighouse & Rastrick (£500)
3. Milnrow (£250)
4. Chav Brass
5. Hepworth
6. Sandhurst Silver

Best First Section: Whitworth Vale & Healey
Runner-up: Flixton

Best Second Section: Delph
Runner-up: Diggle

Best Third Section: Dobcross
Runner-up: Maltby Miners Welfare

Best Fourth Section: Diggle Community Brass
Runner-up: Penrith

Best Local Band: Milnrow
Runner-up: Oldham Band (Lees)

Best Youth Band: Mossley Hollins High School
Runner-up: 2nd Rossendale Scout Group

Best Scratch Band: Bad Ass Brass

Deportment: Brighouse & Rastrick
Junior Deportment: 2nd Rossendale Scout Group

Best Trombones: Milnrow
Best Basses: Brighouse & Rastrick
Best Euphonium: Black Dyke
Best Cornet: Hepworth
Best Youth Soprano Cornet: Mossley Hollins High School

First Band: University of Lancaster Brass Band
Last Band: Clockface Miners Heritage Band

Lees & Springhead:
Main Prize: £500
Prize Fund: £1,800
Adjudicator: John Boax
31 competing bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick (£500)
2. Oldham Band (Lees) (£250)
3. Chav Brass (£150)
4. Whitworth Vale & Healey
5. Greenfield
6. Lindley

Best First Section Band: Whitworth Vale & Healey (£75)
Runner-up: Staffordshire Band (£50)

Best Second Section Band: Lindley (£75)
Runner-up: Shirland Welfare (£50)

Best Third Section Band: Greenfield (£75)
Runner-up: Littleborough Brass*
*Awarded to Fourth Section

Best Fourth Section Band: Stalybridge Old (£75)
Runner-up: Lambertville Brass (£50)

Best Youth Band: 2nd Rossendale Scout Group (£50)
Runner-up: Dobcross Youth (£30)

Best Local Band: Greenfield (£100)
Best in OMBC: Dobcross Youth (£50)

Best Cornet: Oldham Band (Lees) (£25)
Best Euphonium: Brighouse & Rastrick (£25)

Deportment: Chalford Band (£50)
Youth Deportment: Oldham Music Centre Youth (£50)

Scouthead & Austerlands:
Main Prize: £1,000
Prize Fund: £4,710
Adjudicator: Jonathan Pippen
57 competing bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick (£1,000)
2. Hepworth (£500)
3. KNDS Fairey (£400)
4. Oldham Band (Lees) (£300)
5. City of Bradford
6. Silk Brass

Best First Section Band: Silk Brass (£150)
Runner-up: Whitworth Vale & Healey (£100)

Best Second Section Band: Uppermill (£150)
Runner-up: Diggle (£100)

Best Third Section Band: Dobcross Silver (£150)
Runner-up: Ellington Colliery (£100)

Best Fourth Section Band: Littleborough Brass (£150)
Runner-up: Loxley Silver (£100)

Overseas Award: Torshavn Brass (£100)

Best Youth Band: Dobcross Youth (£150)
Runner-up: 2nd Rossendale Scout Group (£100)

Best Local Band: Milnrow (£150)
Runner-up: Slaithwaite (£100)

Best Saddleworth Band: Delph (£150)
Runner-up: Delph Youth (£100)

Deportment: Brighouse & Rastrick (£50)
Youth Deportment: Tewit Youth (£50)

Best Bass Section: Hepworth (£50)
Best Soprano Cornet: Hepworth (£30)
Best Solo Cornet: Hepworth (£30)
Best Bass Trombone: Brighouse & Rastrick (£30)

First Band: Porthleven Town (£30)

Uppermill:
Main Prize: £1, 250
Prize Fund: £4,275
Adjudicator: Benjamin Richeton
52 competing bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick (£1,250)
2. Chav Brass (£750)
3. KNDS Fairey (£500)
4. Redbridge Brass (£250)
5. British Army Catterick
6. Boarshurst Silver

Best First Section Band: Boarshurst Silver (£150)
Runner-up: Flixton Band (£100)

Best Second Section Band: Uppermill (£150)
Runner-up: Delph (£100)

Best Third Section Band: Dobcross Silver (£150)
Runner-up: Maltby Miners Welfare (£100)

Best Fourth Section Band: Pendeen Band (£150)
Runner-up: Friezland (£100)

Best Local Band: Marsden Silver (£150)
Best Saddleworth Band: Oldham Band (Lees) (£150)

Best Youth Band: Wardle Academy (£150)
Runner-up: Tewit Youth (£100)

Deportment: Brighouse & Rastrick (£75)
Local Deportment: Boarshurst Silver (£50)
Youth Deportment: Wardle Academy (£50)

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