August 2008

1 August Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band - Gala on the Green - RAF Linton-On-Ouse Guernsey Concert Brass - Castle Cornet, 7.30pm Gweek Silver Band - Bale Shoot - Zelah Farm, Gweek, 6.30pm Riviera Concert Brass - Last Night of the Proms - Collaton St. Mary Church, 7.30pm Watchet RBL Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm 2-9 August Music for People Summer School of Music - Giggleswick School, Settle, North Yorkshire. UK's most comprehensive Summer Music School. Brass Band, Orchestra, Big Band, Dance band. See the website for details. 2 August Amersham Band - Monks Risborough Horticultural Society Fete - Askett Field Amington Band - Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 2pm Avonbank (Evesham) Band - Priory Park Bandstand, Malvern, 2.30pm Bedale Brass Band - Yorkshire Day - Masham Bedworth Brass - Riversley Park, Nuneaton, 1pm Billingham Silver Band - 44th Billingham International Folklore Festival - Billingham Town Centre Bocking Concert Brass - East Mersea Fete, East Mersea Island, 2.30pm Bugle Silver Band - Tintagel Carnival Charley Brighton (euphonium) + Malcolm Stowell (piano) - Recital - St. Mary's, Church Street. Slough, Berkshire, 12 noon. Admission free. Dalkeith & Monktonhall Brass Band - Dalkeith BBQ & Gullane Games East Peckham Silver Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Emley Brass Band - Emley Show Euphonium Recital no.31, Charley Brighton - St. Mary's Parish Church, Church Street, Slough, Berkshire, at 12 noon, admission free Gretton Silver Band - Geddington Village Hall Fete, 2pm Harrogate Band - Yorkshire Day Festival - Harewood House, Harewood, Leeds, 11am-4pm Hatherleigh Silver Band - Save the Children fete - Hatherleigh Helston Town Band - St Agnes Carnival, St Agnes Honiton Band - Otter Nurseries - Garden Centre, 2.30pm Hyde Band - Gorley By Gone Days, 7.30pm Ilkeston Brass - Langar Woods Park, 6.30pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Barking Fair Ipswich Hospital Band + Kirkham Band - St Peter's by the Waterfront, 12.30pm Knighton Town Silver Band - Clun Carnival Launceston Town Band - Flower Festival - Stoke Climsland Lyme Regis Town Band - Kilmington Show Lympstone Band - Lympstone Furry Dance - Lympstone Markham Main Colliery Band - East Park, Hull Middleton Band - Middleton Carnival, 2pm National Childrens Band of Great Britain - The Artrix, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm. Tickets £10 from 01527 577330 Newark Town Band - St Giles Church Hall, Balderton, NG24 3NN, 7.30pm Rode Hall Silver Band - Biddulph Carnival Shrewton Silver Band - Caravan Club - John Withers Field, Shrewton, 2pm Sidmouth Town Band - Sidmouth Folk Festival - The Ham, Sidmouth Skelmanthorpe Band - Cleckheaton Memorial Park, Cleckheaton, 11am St Austell Band - Tywardreath Fete St Pinnock Band - Looe Carnival, Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Summer Fete - Fivehead Tiverton Town Band - Bovey Tracey Carnival Wetherby and District Silver Band - Tockwith & District Show, 1pm Wigston Band - Foston Church 3-9 August 18th International Brass Band Summer School - Swansea University. Artistic Directors Robert Childs and Nicholas Childs. Tutors: Richard Marshall, Ian Porthouse, Owen Farr, David Childs, Brett Baker, Joseph Cook, Alun Horgan, Philip Wilby and Steve Sykes. Details from Alison Childs, P.O. Box 42, Denshaw, Saddleworth, Oldham, OL3 5WQ. Tel: 01457 820138, 07802 771735, email admin@ibbss.com 3 August Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, repeated on Tuesday evenings, from 10pm to 11pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. Pry Rigg, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU. Brass Band Podcast - A 20 minute podcast of Brass Band music produced usually once a week for your entertainment and to keep you informed of events in the world of brass Band music. Click here for details of upcoming podcasts Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. BBC Radio Bristol (94.9FM), Devon (103.4), Cornwall (95.2), Gloucestershire (104.7), Somerset Sound (1566AM), Jersey (88.8FM), Guernsey (93.2), Swindon (103.6), and Wiltshire (104.3), 7.05pm-8pm. Requests and comments welcome via email - brassmanpgh@uwclub.net, telephone: 01752 843919. Sunday Bandstand - [Listen Live!]. Presented by Chris Helme. Phoenix Radio, 96.7FM, 2pm-3pm. [Calderdale area] Comments welcome via email - sundaybandstand@phoenixfm.co.ukt. Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Jepherson Gardens, Leomington Spa, 2pm Aldbourne Band - Proms Concert - The Green, Aldbourne, 4pm Avonbank Band - Bandstand - Malvern Park, 2.30pm Band - Brodsworth Hall Band - Three Stags Heads Public House, Darley Bridge, Derbyshire, 7pm Bandstand Concert - Lister Park, Bradford, 2pm Bedford Concert Brass - Rockingham Rd Pleasure Park, Kettering, 3pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - West Park, Long Eaton, 3pm Bideford Town Band - Bideford Quay, 5.30pm Birchington Silver Band - Leas Bandstand, Folkestone, 2.30pm Blackwell Wind Band - Sanders Park, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm BM&W Brass - Belper River Gardens, 3pm Bournemouth Concert Brass - P&O Arcadia J815, Southampton, 3pm Brackley & District Band - Abington Park, Northampton Brassington, Middleton and Wirksworth Brass - River Gardens Bandstand, Belper, 3pm Bratton Silver Band - Warminster Bandstand, 2.30pm Breckland Brass Band - Ely Bandstand, 2.30pm Bristol East & Kingswood Band - Royal Victoria Park, Bath, 3pm Bude Metric Brass - Gurney Day - Bude Bandstand Bude Town Band - Gurney Day - Castle Grounds, Bude Bugle Silver Band - Killacourt, Newquay, 2pm Bugle Silver Band - Newquay Lions Carnival, Newquay, 7pm Camborne Town Band - Hayle Recreation Ground Camborne Town Band - Padstow Quay Carharrack & St. Day Silver Band - Point/Penpol Regatta, 11am Carharrack & St. Day Silver Band - Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, 2pm Cawston Band - Cromer Lifeboat, Cromer, 3pm Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm and 8pm Chichester City Band - Bognor Seafront Bandstand City of Southampton (Albion) Band - St. James' Park, London Clitheroe Town Band - Clitheroe Bandstand Cobham Band - Kensington Gardens, London, 2pm Cockerton Prize Silver Band - Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2pm Copthorne Silver Band - Podium, Horsham Park, Horsham, 2.30pm Cromer and Sheringham Brass Band - Sheringham Carnival - The Lees, Sheringham Decent Chaps - Newark Castle Grounds, 2pm Dobcross Silver Band - Diggle Hotel, 2pm Driffield Silver Band - Sewerby Drighlington Brass Band - Goldern Acre Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Dunstable Town Band - Riverside Park, St Neots, 2.30pm Durnovaria Silver Band - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2pm Fakenham Town Band - Sandringham Royal Estate, 2pm Fleckney Silver Band- Abbey Park, Leicester, 3pm Great Yarmouth Brass - Nicholas Everitt Park, Oulton Broad, 2.30pm Gretton Silver Band - Uppingham Flower Show, 2pm Gweek Silver Band - Victoria Gardens, Truro, 3pm Harrogate Band - Valley Gardens, Harrogate, 3pm Heath Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Holymoorside Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Jaguar (Coventry) Band - Allesley Park, Coventry, 3pm KM Medway Concert Brass - Deal Bandstand Knottingley Silver Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Leyburn Band - United Christian Worship - Catholic Church, Leyburn, 7pm Lofthouse 2000 Brass Band - Bramley Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Lydbrook Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm Malvern Hills Band - Ghelevelt Park, Worcester, 2.30pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Normanby Hall, 1.30pm Marshfield Band - Blaise Castle Estate Meltham and Meltham Mills Band - Holmfirth Gardens, 1pm Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Wells Bandstand Milton Keynes Brass - Riverside Park, Huntingdon, 2.30pm Mount Charles Band - St. Keverne Band Sunday, 7pm North Fylde Brass Band - Marsh Mill, 2pm Ogmore Valley Silver Band - Llangeinor Cream Tea Otley Brass Band - Pudsey Park, Leeds, 2.30pm Otterbourne Brass - P&O playoff - Dock gate 10 'Artemis', 3.30pm Pilling Band - North Shore Methodist Church, 7.30pm Portishead Town Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Preston Concert Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Reeth Brass Band - Saltburn by the Sea (Bandstand), 2.30pm Ripon City Band - Spa Gardens, Ripon, 3pm Shipston Town Band - Abbey Riverside Gardens, Evesham, 2.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm St Pinnock Band - Padstow, 2.30pm and 7.30pm Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - MG Rally - Pateley Bridge Showground, 1pm Wardle Anderson Brass - Swinton Park, Swinton, Manchester, Watford Band - Bandstand, Mill Meadows, Bedford, 3pm Weston Brass - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 12pm and 2.30pm Wetherby and District Silver Band - Canal Gardens, Leeds, 2.30pm Wotton & District Silver Band - Red Cross Open Gardens - Ozzleworth Park York R.I. Golden Rail Band - Burnby Hall, Pocklington, 2pm Yorkshire Brass Quintet - Middleton Park, Leeds, 2.30pm 4-9 August Armagh Old Boys' 8th Annual Summer School - Armagh 4 August Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Bideford Town Band - Bideford Quay, 7.30pm Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Cowes Concert Band + Solent Gilbert & Sullivan Society - St Mary's Church, Cowes, Isle of Wight, 8pm Wadebridge Town Band - St Merryn Carnival, 6.30pm 5-16 August Summer Music on the Shannon - Summer school - Limerick, Ireland 5 August Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, repeated on Tuesday evenings, from 10pm to 11pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. Pry Rigg, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU. Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Chichester City Band - Selsey Centre, 7.30pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm 6 August Brass Encounters - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time World of Bands - - [Listen Live!] - 3SER fm, 97.7, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wednesdays, 9am - 12pm Eastern Australian Daylight time 1st Old Boys Association Band - Botanic Gardens, Belfast, 7.30pm Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Poole Borough Band - Pinewalk Bandstand - Bournemouth, 7pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Westminster Abbey Gardens St Gennys Silver Band - Band Fete, Crackington Haven, 7.30pm 7 August Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Honiton Band - Honiton Show, 11am St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm 8 August Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Central Band of the Royal British Legion - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm International Brass Band Summer School Concert - Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, 7.30pm. Admission free. National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain - Civic Hall, Bedworth, 7.30pm. Tickets from 024 7637 6707 9 August Alcester Victoria Silver Band - The Garden House, Ragley Hall, 5pm Amington Band - Canwell Show Bideford Town Band - Carnival, Hartland Bugle Silver Band - St. Columb Carnival Cromer and Sheringham Brass Band - St Peter's Church, Sheringham Dearham Brass Band - Carlisle City Centre Durnovaria Silver Band - Piddletrenthide Hathern Band - Grace Dieu Proms, 6.30pm Hyde Band - Ellingham Show Ibstock Brick Brass - Lutterworth, 7.30pm Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band - Clutton Flower Show National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain - The Artrix, Bromsgrove, 7.30pm New Forest Brass Band - Lymington Bandstand, 3pm Parc & Dare Band - Wales-Japan Club International Festival of Brass - Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff, Cardiff Ramsey Town Band - Royal Manx Agricultural Show Reeth Brass Band - Reeth & District Sports Association Parade, 1pm Saltash Town Band - Mona's Duck Race, Shroka, Saltash, 2pm Slaidburn Silver Band + vocalist Anne-Marie Brewer - Clitheroe Castle Bandstand, 7.30pm St Pinnock Band - Golant Carnival, 6.30pm Stiperstones Brass - Minsterley Show, 2pm Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - Ripley Show, 1pm Sussex Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Easton Gardens Fete Wrexham Brass (Newi) - Victorian Festival - Erddig, Wrexham, 11am 10-16 August Brass Band Summer School - Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire - Including 'Whit Friday' type march contest - Tutors: Brian Taylor, Mark Wilkinson, David Childs, Owen Farr, Nick Hudson, Steve Sykes, Paul Lovatt-Cooper, Director: Richard Evans. Contact Philip Biggs +44 (0)1223-234090 for further details. 10 August Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, repeated on Tuesday evenings, from 10pm to 11pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. Pry Rigg, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU. Brass Band Podcast - A 20 minute podcast of Brass Band music produced usually once a week for your entertainment and to keep you informed of events in the world of brass Band music. Click here for details of upcoming podcasts Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. BBC Radio Bristol (94.9FM), Devon (103.4), Cornwall (95.2), Gloucestershire (104.7), Somerset Sound (1566AM), Jersey (88.8FM), Guernsey (93.2), Swindon (103.6), and Wiltshire (104.3), 7.05pm-8pm. Requests and comments welcome via email - brassmanpgh@uwclub.net, telephone: 01752 843919. Sunday Bandstand - [Listen Live!]. Presented by Chris Helme. Phoenix Radio, 96.7FM, 2pm-3pm. [Calderdale area] Comments welcome via email - sundaybandstand@phoenixfm.co.ukt. AD Concert Band - Himley Hall & Park, Dudley, 2.30pm Arrow Valley Brass - West Park, Wolverhampton, 2pm Avonbank Band - Bandstand - Ross-on-Wye, 2.30pm Band - Brodsworth Hall Band Concert - Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, 2pm Barton Town Band - Normanby Park, Scunthorpe, 1.30pm Bath Spa Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Bedford Town Band - Bandstand, Mill Meadows, Bedford, 3pm Billingham Silver Band - Ward Jackson Park, Hartlepool Bradwell Silver Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Bream Silver Prize Band - Priory Park Bandstand, Malvern, 2.30pm Brighton & Hove City Brass - Bandstand, Hove Seafront, 2.30pm Bude Town Band - Castle Grounds, Bude, 2.30pm Bugle Silver Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Chelmsford Silver Band - Redbridge Park, Aldborough Road South, Ilford, 3pm Cheltenham Silver Band - Pittville Park, Cheltenham, 2.30pm Christchurch & Highcliffe Brass Band - Clifftop Service - Barton Hymns, Barton, Dorset, 4.15pm Clacton-on-Sea Co-Operative Band - Princes Theatre, Clacton Town Hall, 8pm Cockerton Prize Silver Band - South Park, Darlington, 3pm Downshire Brass - Barnett Demesne, Belfast, 3pm East Sussex Concert Band - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Ellesmere Port Silver Band - Ashton Park, West Kirby, 2pm Enderby Youth Band - Humberstone Park, Leicester, 3pm Felling Band - Gibside Chapel, Rowlands Gill, 1pm Forest of Dean Brass Band - Sanders Park, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Golborne Brass Band - Vale Park Guernsey Concert Brass - Candie Gardens, 3pm Hatherleigh Silver Band - Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot Hawk Green Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Christchurch Park Killamarsh Silver Band - Queens Park, Chesterfield, 2.30pm Kippax Band - Kippax Band Club, 8pm Lakenheath Silver Band - Riverside Park, Huntingdon, 2.30pm Linthwaite Band - Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury, 1pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Crossley Park, Ripley, 3pm Markham Main Band - Thorne Memorial Park, 3pm Marshfield Band - John Coles Park, Chippenham Matlock Brass Band - Three Stags Heads Public House, Darley Bridge, Derbyshire, 7pm Morecambe Senior Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Moulton 77 Brass Band - Paradise Park, Kettering Ogmore Valley Silver Band - Songs of Praise, Porthcawl Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 12pm and 2.30pm Old Silkstone Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Otterbourne Brass - P&O playoff - Dock gate 10 'Arcadia', 3.30pm Oxted Band - Tonbridge Castle Lawn, Tonbridge, 3pm Ramsey Town Band - Mooragh Park, 3pm Reeth Brass Band - West Burton Chapel Anniversary, 6.30pm Rockingham Band - Brodsworth Hall Rolls Royce Band - Newark Castle Grounds, 2pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - Haling Dene Centre, Penkridge Shirley Band - Jephson Gardens, Leamington, 3pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Skelmersdale Prize Brass Band - Knowsley Flower Show Tally Ho Concert Band - Bandstand, New Park, Melton Mowbray, 2.45pm Templemore Band - Loughshore Marina, Antrim, 3pm Tenbury Teme Valley - Lido Park, Droitwich, 2.30pm Tiverton Town Band - Westexe Park, Tiverton Trimdon Concert Brass Band - Preston Park, Stockton Ware Brass - The Gardens, The Priory, Ware, 3pm Watership Brass Band - Victoria Park, Newbury Watford Band - Hatfield House, 1.30pm Wealden Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Weston Brass - Grove Park, Weston-s-Mare Weymouth Concert Brass - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2.30pm Winchcombe Concert Brass - Stroud Bandstand, 2.30pm Wrexham Brass (Newi) - Victorian Festival - Erddig, Wrexham, 11am YBS Concert Brass Band - Bingley Show - Myrtle Park, Bingley 11 August Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Bideford Town Band - The Green, Westward Ho!, 7.30pm 12 August Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, repeated on Tuesday evenings, from 10pm to 11pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. Pry Rigg, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU. Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm Totnes Band - Totnes Floral Dance, 6.45pm 13 August Brass Encounters - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time World of Bands - - [Listen Live!] - 3SER fm, 97.7, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wednesdays, 9am - 12pm Eastern Australian Daylight time Ashover Brass Band - Ashover Show - Ashover Show Field, 2pm Gweek Silver Band - Mannacan Chapel, 6.30pm Holymoorside Band - Well Blessing - Barlow, 6.30pm Northallerton Silver Band - Hambleton Forum, 7.30pm Rushen Silver Band - St. Catherine's Church, Port Erin, 8pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Shanklin Regatta, Shanklin Esplanade St Gennys Silver Band - Band Fayre, Crackington Haven, 7.30pm 14 August St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Totnes Band - Dawlish Carnival, 7pm 15 August Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Bude Metric Brass - Fete - The Triangle, Bude, 10am Leyburn Band - Coffee morning concert - Methodist Hall, Leyburn 16 August Blockley Brass Band - Fairford Steam Rally Brighton & Hove City Brass - Parham Craft Fayre, Pareham, 12pm Bude Metric Brass - Bude Carnival Bude Town Band - Bude Carnival Carharrack & St. Day Silver Band - Hicks Mill Copthorne Silver Band - Capel Village Green Cottenham Brass Band - Orwell Horticultural Show, 1.30pm Downshire Brass - Royal Northern Ireland Yacht Club, Cultra Great Horwood Silver Band - Aston Clinton Fete Greenwich Concert Band - Leas Bandstand, Folkestone, 2.30pm Harrogate Band - Ripon Racecourse, 1pm Honiton Band - Dalwood Fair, 2pm Marshfield Band - Marshfield Village Day Maxilead Metals Tyldesley Band - Maypole Disaster Commemoration, Abram, 1pm Patcham Silver Band - Small Dole horticultural show Ratby Co-operative Mid Band - Markfield Gala, 2pm Sharpness & District Silver Band - 2-4pm Tibberton Fete Sidmouth Town Band - Last Night Of The Proms - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 7.30pm Slaithwaite Band - Greenhead Park, Huddersfield, 1pm Totnes Band - Totnes Carnival, 6pm Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Hurst Horticultural Show Watchet Town Band - Flower Show - Puriton, 2pm Watford Band - Bushey Museum Garden Party, 1pm Wigston Band - All Saints, Wigston 17 August Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, repeated on Tuesday evenings, from 10pm to 11pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. Pry Rigg, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU. Brass Band Podcast - A 20 minute podcast of Brass Band music produced usually once a week for your entertainment and to keep you informed of events in the world of brass Band music. Click here for details of upcoming podcasts Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. BBC Radio Bristol (94.9FM), Devon (103.4), Cornwall (95.2), Gloucestershire (104.7), Somerset Sound (1566AM), Jersey (88.8FM), Guernsey (93.2), Swindon (103.6), and Wiltshire (104.3), 7.05pm-8pm. Requests and comments welcome via email - brassmanpgh@uwclub.net, telephone: 01752 843919. Sunday Bandstand - [Listen Live!]. Presented by Chris Helme. Phoenix Radio, 96.7FM, 2pm-3pm. [Calderdale area] Comments welcome via email - sundaybandstand@phoenixfm.co.ukt.  South Australian Band Championships - Adelaide 1st Old Boys Association Band - Sentry Hill, Glengormley, 3pm Armthorpe/Elmfield Band - Thorne Memorial Park, 3pm Band - Brodsworth Hall Bandstand Concert - Myrtle Park, Bingley, 2pm Bath Spa Band - Grove Park, Weston Super Mare, 3pm Belper Town Wind Band - River Gardens Bandstand, Belper, 3pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Portland Park, Kirkby in Ashfield, 2pm Bideford Town Band - The Green, Westward Ho! Billingham Silver Band - Ropner Park, Stockton-on-Tees, 2pm Bratton Silver Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 12pm and 2.30pm Breckland Brass Band - Kings Garden, Thetford, 2.30pm Brighton & Hove City Brass - Parham Craft Fayre, Pareham, 12pm Bulkington Silver Brass - St Nicholas Park, Warwick, 3pm Camborne Town Band - Padstow Quay, 2.30pm and 7.30pm Cawston Band - Bandstand, Eaton Park, 3pm Celebration Reed and Brass - Abbey Fields, Kenilworth, 3pm Cirencester Band - Fairford Steam Rally City Brass Ensemble - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Clifton & Lightcliffe Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Cobham Band - Castle Grounds, Guildford, 2pm Coppull and Standish Band - Botanical Gardens, Southport, 1.45pm Croft Silver Band - Ibstock Country Fair Crofts End Mission Band - Whitfield Road Allotments, 3pm Cromer and Sheringham Brass Band - Lifeboat Service - Blakeney Carnser, 6pm Darley Dale Brass Band - Three Stags Heads Public House, Darley Bridge, Derbyshire, 7pm Daventry Brass - Dodford Summer Fete, 2pm Dunstable Town Band - Bandstand, Mill Meadows, Bedford, 3pm Dunston Silver Band - Beamish Museum, 2pm Durnovaria Silver Band - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2pm East London Brass - Valentine Park, Redbridge, 3pm Fakenham Town Band - Lifeboat Service - Wells-Next-The-Sea Quayside, 6.30 pm Fakenham Town Band - Sandringham Royal Estate, 2pm Fleckney Silver Band - Service - Knaptoft, 3pm Flixton Band - Vernon Park, Stockport, 2pm Frampton on Severn Silver Band - Frampton Feast Hymn Service, 7pm Golborne Brass Band - Mesnes Park, Wigan, 2pm Hazel Grove Brass Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Ibstock Brick Brass - Newark Castle Grounds, 2pm Ilkeston Brass - Victoria Park, Ilkeston, 2.30pm Invicta Concert Band - Leas Bandstand, Folkestone, 2.30pm Ipswich Hospital Band - Westleton Barrel Fair Knottingley Silver Band - Mirfield Show Lancaster City Brass - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Leyburn Band - Carlton-in-Coverdale Fun Day Malvern Hills Band - Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, 1.30pm Markham Main Colliery Band - Brodsworth Hall, 3pm Marshfield Brass Band - Royal Victoria Park, Bath, 3pm Melton Band - Bandstand, New Park, Melton Mowbray, 2.45pm Mid Sussex Brass Band - Podium, Horsham Park, Horsham, 2.30pm Mount Charles Youth Band - St. Ewe Country Fair, 10.30am Northallerton Silver Band - Saltburn Bandstand, 2.30pm Ogmore Valley Silver Band - Roath Park, Cardiff Portsmouth City Band - St Mary's Church, Fratton, 4pm Reeth Brass Band - Scorton Feast, 3pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - East Park, Wolverhampton Rushden Windmill Band - Riverside Park, Huntingdon, 2.30pm Rushen Silver Band - Royal Hotel, Port Erin, 8pm Shipston Town Band - Sanders Park, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm St Breward Silver Band - Victoria Gardens, Truro St Pinnock Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Sussex Brass - Alexandra Park - Hastings, 3pm Tewkesbury Town Band - Stroud Bandstand, 2.30pm Tilbury Band - Kensington Gardens, London, 2pm Tiverton Town Band - Blake Gardens, Bridgwater Trimdon Concert Brass Band - Blackhall Fun Day - Blackhall Watford Band - Hertford Castle, 2.30pm Welbeck Estates Brass Band - Hall Leys Park, Matlock West Yorkshire Brass - Red House Museum, Cleckheaton, 1pm Woodhouse Prize Band - Normanby Hal Wootton Under Edge Silver Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm 18-24 August  9th Italian Brass Week - Santa Fiora, Italy. Concerts, Master classes, and Brass ensemble 18 August Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Bideford Town Band - Bideford Quay, 7.30pm Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Knighton Town Silver Band - Knighton town Crier's Competition, 11am Knighton Town Silver Band - Montgomery Show, 1pm St Pinnock Band - Fowey Floral Dance, 7.15 pm 19 August Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, repeated on Tuesday evenings, from 10pm to 11pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. Pry Rigg, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU. Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm St Austell Band - Fowey Regatta Week 20-23 August  4th International Wind Band Festival - Mürtsub Pill 2008 - Tartu, Estonia 20 August Brass Encounters - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time World of Bands - - [Listen Live!] - 3SER fm, 97.7, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wednesdays, 9am - 12pm Eastern Australian Daylight time Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Cromer and Sheringham Brass Band - Cromer Carnival - Everington Lawns, Cromer, 6pm St Austell Band - Fowey Regatta Week 21 August Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am, 3pm and 7pm St Austell Band - Fowey Regatta Week St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Wingates Band - Southport Flower Show 22 August Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Hyde Band - Pinewalk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 7pm St Austell Band - Fowey Regatta Week Watchet RBL Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm Wingates Band - Southport Flower Show 23 August Land o' Burns Contest (for Championship, First and Section section bands in the UK) - Walker Halls, Troon, 10am. Details from Sandy McAughtrie, 0786 787 8348  Victorian State Brass Band Championships - Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts, Ballarat Bocking Concert Brass - West Mersea Regatta, West Mersea Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Bude Town Band - Bradworthy Carnival Bugle Silver Band - Trewithen Gardens, 12pm City of Wolverhampton Brass Band - Sedgley Flower Show Coleshill Town Band - Fire and Brass - The Croft, Coleshill, 6.30pm East London Brass Band - Leas Bandstand, Folkestone, 1pm Epsom and Ewell Silver Band - West End Flower Show - West End Common Essentially Brass - Flower Festival - Southwell Minster Farnborough Band of RBL - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Gretton Silver Band - Wansford Flower Show - Haycock Hotel, 1pm Hatfield Powerfuel Colliery Band + Steve Love Dance Band - Musical Picnic, with excerpts from "The Last Night of the Proms" - Cherry Tree Farm , Hatfield Woodhouse, Nr Thorne, 6pm 'til late. Bring your own food, drink and gazebos, flags for "Land of Hope and Glory" etc. Tickets £10 - Enquiries - Tel: 07526 146554. Proceeds towards Firefly Cancer Awareness & Support Foundation Haworth Band - Malham Show Highley Colliery Band - Geopark Way Opening Celebration - Highley Station Knighton Town Silver Band - Knighton Show and Carnival Leyburn Band - Wensleydale Agricultural Show, Leyburn Phoenix Brass - Barrington Fête, 1.30pm Porthywaen Silver Band - Berriew Show Royal Buckley Town Band - Denbigh Flower Show Stanhope Silver Band - Romaldkirk Fair Tiverton Town Band - Topsham Carnival Watchet RBL Band - Bicknoller Garden Party, Trendle Lane, 2.15pm Watford Band - St. James Park, London, 11am West Chiltington Silver Band - Carfax Bandstand, Horsham, 2pm Wingates Band - Southport Flower Show 24 August Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, repeated on Tuesday evenings, from 10pm to 11pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. Pry Rigg, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU. Brass Band Podcast - A 20 minute podcast of Brass Band music produced usually once a week for your entertainment and to keep you informed of events in the world of brass Band music. Click here for details of upcoming podcasts Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. BBC Radio Bristol (94.9FM), Devon (103.4), Cornwall (95.2), Gloucestershire (104.7), Somerset Sound (1566AM), Jersey (88.8FM), Guernsey (93.2), Swindon (103.6), and Wiltshire (104.3), 7.05pm-8pm. Requests and comments welcome via email - brassmanpgh@uwclub.net, telephone: 01752 843919. Sunday Bandstand - [Listen Live!]. Presented by Chris Helme. Phoenix Radio, 96.7FM, 2pm-3pm. [Calderdale area] Comments welcome via email - sundaybandstand@phoenixfm.co.ukt. 1st Old Boys Association Band - Loughshore Jordanstown, 3pm A. W. Parker (Drybrook) Band - Bandstand, Ross-on-Wye Alcester Victoria Silver Band - Lido Park, Droitwich, 2.30pm Band - Brodsworth Hall Bandstand Concert - Lister Park, Bradford, 2pm Bedford Town Band - Riverside Park, Huntingdon, 2.30pm Bell Inn Brass Band - Abbey Park Bandstand, Evesham., 2.30pm Bournemouth Concert Brass - Pine Walk Bandstand, Bournemouth, 11am and 3pm Bristol Concert Wind Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Celebration Reed and Brass - Jephson Gardens, Leamington, 3pm Cheltenham Silver Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm Cold Ash Brass - Cold Ash Show Cubbington Silver Band - War Memorial Park, Coventry, 3pm Eagley Band - Haigh Steam Rally, Haigh Hall, Wigan, 1pm Eccles Borough Band - Astley Bridge Park, Bolton Epsom and Ewell Silver Band - Hever Castle, 3pm Fakenham Town Band - Stiffkey, 2pm Farnborough Band of RBL - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm and 8pm Great Horwood Silver Band - Lowndes Park, Chesham Great Yarmouth Brass - Sea Life Centre gardens, Great Yarmouth Seafront, 2pm Great Yarmouth Brass - Songs of Praise - Christchurch, Great Yarmouth, 6.30pm Gretton Silver Band - Brixworth Dog Sanctuary, 1pm Grimsdyke Brass - Golders Hill Park Bandstand, 3pm Hathern Band - Horticultural Show - 3 Crowns, 1.30pm Haworth Band - Haworth Show Holymoorside Band - Gardens - Chatsworth, 1.30pm Hyde Band - Frogham Tent Service, 10am James Farrell Concert Band - Horsforth Hall Park, Leeds, 2.15pm Launceston Town Band - Killacourt, Newquay, 2.30 p.m. Leyburn Band - Flower Festival Songs of Praise, Thornton Watlass Church Lincolnshire Hospitals Band - Peasholme Park, Scarborough. 2pm Lydgate Brass Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Malvern Hill Brass Band - Sanders Park, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Morecambe Senior Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Norfolk Wherry Brass - Bandstand, Mousehold Heath, 3pm Ogmore Valley Silver Band - Margam Park Phoenix WM Brass - Knowle Park Solihull Ramsey Town Band - Colonnade Suite, Villa Marina, 3pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Firework Fund's Songs of Praise, 3pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Shanklin Cricket Club, Westhill Road Shelley Brass Band - Oakwell Hall Summer Fair, Nutter Lane, Birstall Shepley Band - Oakwell Hall Country Park, Birstall, 1pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm St Austell Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm St Gennys Silver Band - Songs of Praise, Boscastle Harbour, 6.00pm Stowmarket Concert Band - Nicholas Everitt Park, Oulton Broad, 2pm Summerbridge & Dacre Silver Prize Band - Pateley Bridge Bandstand, 2pm Swinton & District Excelsior Band - Burnby Hall, Pocklington, 2pm Templemore Band - Loughshore Marina, Antrim, 3pm Tiverton Town Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 12pm and 2.30pm Trimdon Concert Brass - Ropner Park, Stockton-on-Tees, 2pm Virtuosi GUS Band - Findon Dolben Cricket Ground, 2pm Welbeck Estates Brass Band - Center Parcs, Notts Wetherby & District Silver Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Weymouth Concert Brass - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2.30pm Whitwell Brass Band - Three Stags Heads Public House, Darley Bridge, Derbyshire, 7pm Wingates Band - Southport Flower Show Woodfalls Concert Brass - Lymington Bandstand, 2pm. FREE!! - Bring your friends and a picnic! Worcester Concert Brass - Priory Park Bandstand, Malvern, 2.30pm Yorkshire Traction and Honley Band - Beaumont Park, Huddersfield, 1pm 25 August Time for Brass - [Listen Live!] - Manx Radio, Mondays: 9pm-10pm. Also available via the Audio Vault for the following week Aylsham Band - Aylsham Show - Blickling Park Bideford Town Band - The Green, Westward Ho!, 7.30pm Bilsdale Silver Band - Farndale Show, 1.30pm Bletchington Silver Band - Dinton Fete Bocking Concert Brass - Fete - Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, 12.30pm Bratton Silver Band - Westwood Flower Show, 2.30pm Bretforton Silver Band - Fete Fun for Kids! - The Fleece Inn, Bretforton Bugle Silver Band - Big Cornish Day Out - Carruan Farm, Polzeath, 1pm Camborne Town Band - Porthleven Torchlight Procession, 7pm Corsham Band - Church Fete, Easteron, Devizes Daventry Brass - Everdon Summer Fete, 1.30pm Dearham Brass Band - Silloth Carnival Eagley Band - Haigh Steam Rally, Haigh Hall, Wigan, 1pm Ilkeston Brass - Erewash Museum, Ilkeston, 1pm Leyburn Band - Leyburn Market Place, 1pm Long Eaton Silver Prize Band - Flower Festival, All Saints Church, Sawley Newark Town Band + Decent Chaps + Foss Dyke Band - Brass Explosion - Riverside Park, Newark, 6.30pm. Fireworks Finale, 10pm Old Hall Brass - St Peters Church Recreation Ground, Wigan Rd, Hindley, 12pm Otley Brass Band - Bolton Abbey Summer Fayre Phoenix WM Brass - Church Stretton Food Festival Poynton Royal (British Legion) Band - Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, 2pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Cheshire Home, Popham Road Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band - Littlewick Green Show Whitchurch Band - Cheshire Wakes - Tilston, Cheshire, 2pm Winchcombe Concert Brass - Winchcombe Flower Show - Winchcombe School 26-29 August SSCMS Summer School - Friends' Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton 26 August Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, repeated on Tuesday evenings, from 10pm to 11pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. Pry Rigg, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU. Lyme Regis Town Band - Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, 8pm St Pinnock Band - Polruan Regatta, 10.30am 27-29 August Brass Band Summer School - Belmont School Community Arts College, Durham. All brass players under the age of 18 are invited to attend. The course end with a short concert on Friday 29th August. Tuition will be provided free of charge by specialist brass players and students will be put into groups based on their individual playing ability. For more details or for an application form, please contact Miss Laura Boyle - email L.Boyle@belmontschool.org.uk 27 August Brass Encounters - [Listen Live! + for the following week] - 2NUR fm, 103.7, Newcastle, Australia. Wednesdays, 5.30pm local time World of Bands - - [Listen Live!] - 3SER fm, 97.7, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wednesdays, 9am - 12pm Eastern Australian Daylight time Potter Bar Town Band - Open Day - Hatfield House, 1.30pm Reeth Brass Band - Reeth Show St Breward Silver Band - Padstow Bandstand, 7.30pm St Keverne Brass Band - Flambards St Pinnock Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Taverham Band - Whissonsett Church, 7.30pm 28 August Douglas Town Band - Promenade Church, 8pm Hatherleigh Silver Band - Moretonhampstead Carnival Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Mortonhampstead Carnival St Breward Silver Band - Port Isaac, 7.45 pm Slaidburn Silver Band - Brass At The Bounty - The Hark To Bounty Inn, Slaidburn, BB7 3ER, 7.15pm. Free admission 29 August Listen To The Band - BBC Radio 2, 9.30-10pm. Carharrack & St. Day Silver Band - Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, 8pm Muker Silver Band - Church Wine Party - Muker, 7.30pm Watchet Town Band - Watchet Esplanade, 7.30pm 30 August Brass in the Park Contest - Newtongrange Park, Newtongrange, Midlothian. Bedworth Brass - Miners Welfare Park, Bedworth. Bell Inn Brass Band - Bridgnorth Festival Besses o' th' Barn Band - Radcliffe Piazza, Radcliffe Town Centre, near Manchester, 11am to 2pm. Free concert Bilsdale Silver Band - Bilsdale Show, 1pm-4pm Dearham Brass Band - Workington Town Centre Dronfield Band - Eyam Carnival - Eyam, 2.30pm Gloucester Brass - Ashleworth Fete, 2pm Laganvale (Metal Technology) Band - Belfast Castle, 1pm Long Melford Silver Band - Cavendish Fete Nailsworth Silver Band - Hawkesbury Upton Horticultural show Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass Band + Swansong - Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight. Tickets are £6 and £7 Ratby Co-operative Band - Crowpie Carnival - Ferndale Playing Field, Ratby Stanhope Silver Band - Weardale Show - St John's Chapel Stoke sub Hamdon Band - Street Fayre - Drayton, 11am Sussex Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Thundersley Brass Band - St James' Park, London Woodfalls Concert Brass - Avenue United Reform Church, Southampton, Doors 7pm. Tickets: £8 adults, £6 concessions, £4 children - available on the door. A concert given as part of our exciting summer programme, sponsored by Waitrose 31 August Bandstand - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. Presented by Val and Michael Fryer and broadcast live on Sunday evenings, from 8pm to 9pm, repeated on Tuesday evenings, from 10pm to 11pm, on Radio Teesdale, S W Durham (102.1 & 105.5 FM) and on the Internet at www.radioteesdale.co.uk . An eclectic mix of brass and military band music, plus interviews, diary dates, news and views from the banding world. Band information, concert dates and music to Michael Fryer, telephone 07917 694 588, email michael_fryer@hotmail.com. Pry Rigg, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU. Brass Band Podcast - A 20 minute podcast of Brass Band music produced usually once a week for your entertainment and to keep you informed of events in the world of brass Band music. Click here for details of upcoming podcasts Sounds of Brass - [Listen Live!] - Click here for the latest playlist. BBC Radio Bristol (94.9FM), Devon (103.4), Cornwall (95.2), Gloucestershire (104.7), Somerset Sound (1566AM), Jersey (88.8FM), Guernsey (93.2), Swindon (103.6), and Wiltshire (104.3), 7.05pm-8pm. Requests and comments welcome via email - brassmanpgh@uwclub.net, telephone: 01752 843919. Sunday Bandstand - [Listen Live!]. Presented by Chris Helme. Phoenix Radio, 96.7FM, 2pm-3pm. [Calderdale area] Comments welcome via email - sundaybandstand@phoenixfm.co.ukt. 1st Old Boys Association Band - Carrick Castle, 3pm Ashover Brass + Heage Band + Alfreton and District Male Voice Choir; and others - Promenade Concert - River Gardens Bandstand, Belper, 2pm - 7.30pm Bactiguard Wire Brass - Neston Parish Church, Neston, L64 9TZ, 7.30pm Band - Brodsworth Hall Band Concert - Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, 2pm Bath Spa Band - Memorial Gardens, Oldfield Park, Bath, 3pm Bestwood Black Diamonds Band - Queens Park Chesterfield, 2.30pm till 4.30pm Billingham Silver Band - South Park, Darlington Blewbury Brass Band - Victoria Park, Newbury, 3pm Bocking Concert Brass - Braintree Public Gardens, Bocking End, Braintree, 3pm Bratton Silver Band - John Coles Park, Chippenham, 3pm Bristol East & Kingswood Band - Parade Gardens, Bath, 3pm Burbage Silver Band - Lime Kilns Beer Festival and Boat Race, Hinckley Camborne Town Band - Padstow Quay, 2.30pm and 7.30pm Cantium Brass - Leas Bandstand, Folkestone, 2.30pm Chapeltown Silver Band - Riverside Bandstand, Wetherby, 2.30pm Chinnor Silver Band - Parsons Close Recreation Ground, Leighton Buzzard, 3pm Corby Silver Band - Village Green, Grafton Underwood, 3pm Crystal Palace Band - Clapham Common Bandstand, 3pm District of Dunchurch Brass - Citroen Car Club - Stratford race course Durnovaria Silver Band - Abbotsbury Gardens, 2pm Fakenham Town Band - St Nicholas Park, Oulton Broad, 2pm Felling Band - Gibside Chapel, Rowlands Gill, 1pm Fodens Richardson Band - Chapel-en-le-Frith Park, 3pm Forest of Dean Brass - Priory Park Bandstand, Malvern, 2.30pm Frampton on Severn Silver Band - Stratford Park, Stroud, 2.30pm Golcar Band - Marsden Park, Marsden, Huddersfield, 1pm Guernsey Concert Brass - Candie Gardens, 3pm Gweek Silver Band - Princess Pavilions, Falmouth, 2pm Harrogate Band - Bandstand, Centre Vale Park, Todmorden, 3pm Ipswich and Norwich co op Band - Art on the Prom, Felixstowe, 1pm Killamarsh Silver Band - Arboretum, Nottingham Launceston Town Band - Brass on the Grass - Bude, Castle Grounds, 2.30 p.m. LGB Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 3pm Lockwood Brass - Bandstand, Saltburn by the Sea, 2.30pm Lytham St Annes Guardian Concert Band - St Annes Bandstand, 2pm Melton Band - Western Park, Leicester, 3pm Middleton Band - Middleton Farmers Market, 12.30pm Morecambe Senior Band - Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, 2.30pm Mount Charles Youth Band - Ship Inn, Par, 7.30pm Ormeau Concert Band - Carnfunnock Country Park, 3pm Rode Hall Brass Band - Congleton Park, Congelton, 3pm Rogerstone Brass Band - Teddy bear's picnic - Insole Court, Llandaf, 3pm Rugeley Power Station Brass Band - West Park, Wolverhampton Rushden Mission Band - Yardley Hastings Village open day, 2pm Rushden Windmill Brass Band - Pleasure Park, Rockingham Road, Kettering, 3pm Shanklin Town Brass Band - Bandstand, Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, 3pm Sidmouth Town Band - Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth, 8pm Stanhope Silver Band - Weardale Show Service - St John's Chapel Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Brintons Park, Kidderminster, 2.30pm Stourport-on-Severn Brass Band - Sanders Park, Bromsgrove, 2.30pm Sussex Brass - Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, 8pm Swinton and District Excelsior Band - Peasholm Park, Scarborough SWT Woodfalls Band - P&O Cruises - Play out Ventura, 3.45pm Tarleton Brass Band - Beconsall Old Church, 2.30pm Tewkesbury Town Band - Abbey Park Bandstand, Evesham, 2.30pm Watchet RBL Band - Ilfracombe Bandstand, 2pm Whitwell Brass Band - Center Parcs, Sherwood Forest, 12pm Woodhouse Prize Band - Renishaw Hall Yeovil Town Band - Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, 12pm and 2.30pm