Brass festival's top note.A MEMORABLE Brighouse Lions Festival of Brass culminated with 26 bands competing for glory in the town centre. The festival, in its tenth year, began with Marsden Silver Prize Band conductor Glyn Williams performing a concert with guest soloist, Black Dyke's principal cornetist, Richard Marshall. 2006 and 2008 champions The Marsden Silver Prize Band defended their title successfully. A rejuvenated Hammonds Saltaire Band, under conductor Morgan Griffith took the runners-up spot.Fred Etherington, "the voice of Brighouse" as he is affectionately known, spoke about Stuart and also Terry Nuttall and Richard Ashmore, two local brass musicians who recently passed away. Clifton & Lightcliffe donated a trophy in memory of Terry, which was presented to the Best Trombones on the Road March by his widow Mavis. Brighouse Youth Solo Championships in Bailiff bailiff Officer of some U.S. courts whose duties include keeping order in the courtroom and guarding prisoners or jurors in deliberation. In medieval Europe, it was a title of some dignity and power, denoting a manorial superintendent or royal agent who collected fines and Bridge Results Under 11: 1st Charlotte Horsfield (trombone trombone [Ital.,=large trumpet], brass wind musical instrument of cylindrical bore, twice bent on itself, having a sliding section that lengthens or shortens it and thus regulates the pitch. The descendant of the sackbut, it was developed in the 15th cent. ); 2nd Nadia Long (Tenor Horn); 3rd Alex Smith (Euphonium euphonium or tenor tuba Large valved brass instrument, the leading lower-pitched instrument in military bands. It developed from the valved bugle and cornet in Germany c. 1840. It has four valves and a wide conical bore resembling the tuba's. ). Youngest player: Aaron Kerwin (Euphonium); All members of Clifton & Lightcliffe Juniors Under 14: 1st: Lewis Bettles (Trombone) Stannington Brass Band; 2nd Alexander Crisp (Tenor Horn) Clifton & Lightcliffe; 3rd Joseph Martin (Cornet) Knaresborough Silver Band Under 17: 1st Jonathan Bates (Tenor Horn) Carlton Main Frickley Colliery 2nd Alexander Crisp (Tenor Horn) Clifton & Lightcliffe 3rd Lewis Bettles (Trombone) Stannington Brass Band Full results: 1st Marsden Silver Prize Band (Glyn Williams); 2nd Hammonds Saltaire (Morgan Griffiths); 3rd The Lindley Band (Neil Jowett); 4th The Drighlington Band (Kevin Belcher). Best Principal Cornet: J.J.Lees (Hammonds Saltaire) Yamaha "Xeno" Cornet plus the Stuart Broadbent Memorial Trophy. Best Contest March: Marsden Silver. Best Hymn Tune: Marsden Silver. Best Soloist of the Day: Euphonium United Co-op Yorkshire. Best Band Road March: South Yorkshire Police South Yorkshire Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing South Yorkshire in England. The force covers an area of approximately 1,554 square kilometres which is made up of the county's three boroughs (Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham), along with the Band. Best Trombone Section Road March: Hammonds Saltaire. Best Soprano Cornet: Marsden Band. Best Hymn Tune Section 4: Huddersfield & Ripponden (Tony Jagger). Deportment de·port·ment n. A manner of personal conduct; behavior. See Synonyms at behavior. deportment Noun the way in which a person moves and stands: : The Diggle Band (Les Beevers). Best 1st Section Band: The Lindley Band . Best 2nd Section Band: Elland Silver (David Essex). Best 3rd Section Band: The Uppermill Band (Alan Widdop). Best 4th Section Band: Huddersfield & Ripponden. Best Youth Band: Elland Silver Youth (Samantha Harrison). Youth Deportment: Elland Silver Youth. Youngest Player: Theo Fieldhouse, Elland Silver Youth. Best Soloist Youth: Cornet, Sellers International Youth Band CAPTION(S): HOOT: (from left) Adam Wooding, Tom Lee and Ed Burbidge |
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