SWBBA Award for Ray Kingdon’s 70 years service
The South West Brass Band Association’s 76th Annual Championships took place on Saturday 2nd November 2024 at The Riviera Centre, Torquay with 23 bands taking part over 6 sections. As well as presenting trophies to the winners, SWBBA were delighted to present our much-loved and respected Chairman, Ray Kingdon, with a certificate to mark his incredible seventy year membership of South Molton Town Band.
Ray is not only a true stalwart of the band (and SWBBA), he is prolific figure in his home-town of South Molton where he and his wife Gwen are involved with all kinds of charity work. Congratulations Ray - what an achievement!
Pictured presenting the certificate to Ray is SWBBA president Leonard Adams.
FULL RESULTS
Section Four/Ungraded:
1st Bay Brass (Alan Wilmott)
2nd Plymouth City Bass Academy Band (Paul Norley)
Best Bass Section - Bay Brass
Section Three:
1st Pendennis Brass (Harry Weir)
2nd Saltash Town Band (Graham Eaton)
3rd Exeter Railway Band (Gareth Davies)
Best Horn Section - Saltash Town
Training Band Section:
1st Plymouth City Brass Academy Band (Paul Norley)
2nd Porthleven Training Band (Tom Bassett)
3rd Launceston Training Band (Ann Brown)
Best Instrumentalist - Percussion Section, Porthleven Training Band
Youth Section
1st St Austell Youth Band (Anna Minear)
Best Instrumentalist - Euphonium, St Austell Training Band
Section Two:
1st Markham & District Band (Gary Davies)
2nd Porthleven Town Band (Tom Bassett)
Best Instrumentalist - Euphonium, Markham & District
Open Section (Championship and First Section bands)
1st City of Cardiff Melingriffith (M1) (Rob Westacott) *
2nd Lympstone Band (Chris Spreadbury)
3rd Forest of Dean (Martyn Patterson)
4th Filton Concert Brass (Gary Davies) *
5th Plymouth City Brass (Adam Glynn)
6th Hyde Band (Ben Halstead)
7th Weston Brass (Ian Dickinson)
8th Chalford Band (Steve Tubb)
9th Glastonbury Brass (Liam Grunsell)
10th Roche Brass (Brendan Caddy)
11th Sidmouth Town Band (Adrian Harvey)
12th Lanner & District Silver Band (Mark Phillips)
13th Porthleven Town Band (Tom Bassett)
14th Helston Town Band (Andrew Berryman)
Best Cornet Player - Solo Cornet, City of Cardiff Melingriffith (M1)
* = Championship bands
SWBBA’s thanks go to adjudicator Steve Pritchard-Jones, The Ev-entz team for their tireless work sorting out individual bands percussion requirements, all the traders for coming to support, the staff at The Riviera Centre for their help, the team of stewards who give their time voluntarily, the SWBBA Committee for organising such a well-run and friendly event and last but not least all the bands for coming.