The result emphasises Newstead’s established position
amongst the leading midland’s brass bands with 7th, 5th
and 6th places over the last 3 years in the championships.
A band
spokesman commented, “We were a little disappointed with the way we played, it
was a good performance but we know we could have played better. This was the first major contest for the band
after appointing our new principal cornet, Mathew Hampton, and principal
horn, Jackie Greensted at the beginning of the year and internal player moves
into the flugel and principal EEb bass ‘chairs’. We now feel ready to build on the success of
our recent wins at the Leicester and Oxford contests and push on to the next level
to regularly be in the ‘top 3’ in the midlands with good performances in the British
Open Spring Festival and English Masters later this year.”
Our best wishes to the winners and runners-up, Virtuosi GUS
and Desford, as they go on to represent the midlands in the National finals at the
Royal Albert Hall in October.It was a successful weekend for Newstead’s musical director Duncan Beckley as he also led Horbury Victoria band to second place in section 3 of the Yorkshire championships at Bradford on Saturday March 7th. They will go forward to the division 1 to 4 national championship finals at Cheltenham in September.
