North of England Brass Band Championships

Best Soprano: NASUWT Riverside
Best Principal Cornet: Reg Vardy
Best Baritone: City of Hull
Best Euphonium: City of Hull
Best Trombone: NASUWT Riverside
Best Bass Section: Easington Colliery 
Best Percussion: NASUWT Riverside

Results from the NOEBBC Championship Section 1. NASUWT Riverside
2. Reg Vardy 
3. Easington Colliery
4. City of Hull 
5. Fishburn 
6. Shepherd Group Brass 
7. Westoe Brass (John Roberts)
8. Kirkbymoorside Town (Sarah Woodward)
9. Ripon City (Mark Sidwell)

Best Euphonium: Tewit Youth
Best Bass Section: Durham Miners Association
Best Soprano: Tewit Youth

Results from NOEBBC 2nd Section 1. Durham Miners Association
2. Tewit Silver 
3. Ashington Colliery 
4. Dunston Silver 
5. Ferryhill Town 
6. Trimdon Brass 
7. NASUWT Concert Band 
8. Bearpark & Esh Colliery
9. East Riding of Yorkshire

Day one of the North of England Brass Band Championships is complete. Congratulations to all of our prize winners. Tomorrow it’s the turn of the 2nd and Championship section bands with the action starting at 10:30.

Result from the NOEBBC 1st Section 1. York Railway Institute 
2. Harrogate
3. Cockerton Prize Silver 
4. North Skelton 
5. GT Group Peterlee 
6. Houghton Brass 
7. Felling Best Trombone:York RI 
Best Bass Section: York RI 
Best Perc:Cockerton Prize Silver

Results from the NOEEBC 3rd Section 1. Jayess Newbiggin Brass 
2. Barton Community 
3. Ellington Colliery 
4. Flookburgh Silver 
5. Spennymoor Town 
6. Knaresborough Silver Best Cornet: Ellington Colliery Band
Best Percussion: Jayess Newbiggin Brass

Results from the NOEBBC Section 4 1. North Lakes Brass 2. Billingham Silver 3. Craghead Colliery 4. Backworth Colliery 5. Swinton & District 6. Penrith Town 7. Marske Brass Best Principal Cornet:Marske Brass Best Euphonium:Billingham Silver Youngest Player:North Lakes

The stage is set for the North of England Brass Band Championships #regs2023

City of Hull (Dean Jones) @easingtonband(Stephen Malcolm)
@FishburnBand(Duncan Beckley) @KirkbyBand(Sarah Woodward) @NASUWTRiverside(Dr Robert Childs) @TheRegVardyBand(Russell Gray) Ripon City (Mark Sidwell) Shepherd Group Brass (Richard Wilton) @westoeband(John Roberts)

Our final section of the weekend will be the Championship Section. This will start at the conclusion of the 2nd section and will see our 9 championship bands compete on Philip Wilby’s ‘The Red Priest’

2nd Section: Ashington Colliery(Nigel Steadman)
@BPandEband(Phillip Tait) @DunstonSilver (Fraser Hodgson)
@minersbrass(Stuart Gray) @EastRidingBand(Fiona Bishop) Ferryhill Town (Jonathan Fenwick) @NASUWTCONCERT(Brian Thompson) @BandTewit(Martin Hall) Trimdon Brass (John Bell)

The North of England Brass Band Championships will continue on Sunday 12th March at 10:30am with our 2nd Section Bands. They will be competing on Rodney Newton’s ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’

Bands competing in the 1st Section are: @band_cockerton (Andrew Hunter) Gt Group Peterlee (Chris Bentham) Felling (Jason Smith) @HoughtonBrass (Michael Franey) @HGateBrassBand (Craig Radcliffe)
@NorthSkeltonBnd (Tim Oldroyd) @YorkRIBand (Dr David Lancaster)

The final section on Saturday will be the 1st Section who will be playing A Day in the Life of a Knight by Philip Lawrence.

Bands competing in Section 3 are: Barton Community (Gary Oglesby) @EllingtonBand (Callum Hartwell) Flookburgh Silver (John Iveson) @JayessNewbiggin (Andrew Griffiths) @KboroSilverBand (Nicholas Garrett) @SpennymoorBand (Danny Brooks)

The 3rd Section will take place early on Saturday afternoon after the conclusion of the 4th Section contest. Bands will be playing Chorale and Toccata by Stephen Bulla

Competing in the 4th Section will be: Backworth Colliery (Chris Travis)
Billingham Silver (Vaughan Evans) @cragheadband (Stephen Goddard) Marske Brass (Victoria Wilson) @BrassLakes (Gareth Sykes) @BandPenrith (Ian Butterworth) Swinton & District (Simon Miller)

The North of England Brass Band Championships takes place this weekend @GalaDurham commencing on Saturday 11th March at 10:30 with the 4th Section who will be playing Hungerford Town by Darrol Barry.

One month today and the North of England Brass Band Championships will be in full swing. The countdown is on 🎵 to @GalaDurham