British Open packs Symphony Hall
With just over a month to go until the 164th British Open, the organisers have announced that the competition has sold out for the third successive year.
The box office at Symphony Hall, where nineteen bands will line up to play Professor Peter Graham's 'The Triumph of Time', advises that anyone who has not purchased tickets should check the website or call 0121 780 3333 regularly to see if any returns are made, whilst being mindful that any unused tickets can be returned on the day of the contest itself.
Here is a link to the Symphony Hall box office.
The competing bands are also reminded to ensure their player registration details are fully up to date for the contest on the 10th September.
Bands should use the British Open on-line Registry to ensure their player details are completely up to date, with player's name, date of birth and photo identification.
Further details can be found here.
The list of competing bands and their conductors who will line up against the defending champion, Grimethorpe Colliery is as follows:
Black Dyke (Professor Nicholas J.Childs)
Brass Band Willebroek (Frans Violet)
Brighouse & Rastrick (Professor David King)
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery (Erik Jannsen)
Co-op Funeralcare (Allan Ramsay)
Cory (Philip Harper)
Desford Colliery (Leicestershire Miners Trust Fund) (Michael Fowles)
Fairey (Garry Cutt)
Flowers (Paul Holland)
Foden's (Bramwell Tovey)
Grimethorpe Colliery (Dr Robert Childs)
Hammonds Saltaire (Morgan Griffiths)
Jaguar Land Rover (Dave Lea)
Leyland (Thomas Wyss)
Milnrow (Mark Bentham)
Rothwell Temperance (David Roberts)
Tredegar (Ian Porthouse)
Wellington Brass Band (New Zealand) (David Bremner)
Woodfalls (Howard Evans)
Further information on the British Open can be found here.
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