CONTEST RESULTS

Spring Festival (Grand Shield)

Date: 13 May 2023
Venue: Winter Gardens, Blackpool
Adjudicator(s): Dr Robert Childs, David Hirst
Test piece: The World Rejoicing (Variations on a Lutheran Chorale) (Edward Gregson)

Pos Band Conductor Draw
1 Whitburn Professor Nicholas J Childs 16 Flag
2 Hepworth Ryan Watkins 10 Flag
3 Reg Vardy Russell Gray 18 Flag
4 Oldham Band (Lees) John Collins 19 Flag
5 Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Allan Withington 6 Flag
6 The GUS Band Dr David Thornton 3 Flag
7 City of Bradford Brass Gareth Brindle 11 Flag
8 Friary Brass Band Nigel Taken 12 Flag
9 NASUWT Riverside Brass Michael Fowles 8 Flag
10 Wingates Andrea Price 17 Flag
11 Ratby Co-operative Mareika Gray 20 Flag
12 Milnrow Lee Skipsey 7 Flag
13 City of Hull Dean Jones 4 Flag
14 Camborne Town Ian Porthouse 2 Flag
15 Skelmanthorpe Martin Heartfield 13 Flag
16 Rainford Sarah Groarke-Booth 5 Flag
17 Dalmellington Erik Janssen 1 Flag
18 Wantage Jonathan Pippen 9 Flag
19 Pemberton Old Wigan DW Ben Dixon 15 Flag
20 Ashton-under-Lyne Martyn Evans 14 Flag

Qualifiers (for 2023 British Open): Whitburn and Hepworth

Best instrumentalist: Andrew McMillan (horn, Whitburn)