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On Saturday 7th March The band competed in the regional Brass Band competition at Bedworth Civic Hall, playing the test piece ' Three Haworth Impressions'. We gained 2nd place out of 15 bands which means we are invited to the National Brass Band Finals of Great Britain at the Barbican Centre in York in September.
The band performed superbly under our amazing conductor Chris Banks. He brought along his wife Lucy and 3 week old Noah for the day and he was really well behaved (and Chris as well) !
Our result shows hard work in the bandroom pays off, although we had plenty of laughs along the way.
Our principle cornet Mark Brimble won the well deserved accolade for best instrumentalist of the day, as he filled the civic hall with his cornet solo's, a thoroughly fantastic weekend.
Also a mention to Matlock Band who also came 2nd in their section on Sunday 8th March under the baton of our Chris Banks, a big congratulations to them!
We had a very interesting and informative evening on Sunday 1st of March, courtesy of Blidworth Miners Welfare Band at their welfare. We performed our area test piece 'Three Haworth Impressions' with an appraisal by John Roberts. He gave us a very helpful critique of our performance, which will help us enormously with one week to go until we compete at the Midlands area championships at Bedworth Civic Hall on Saturday 7th March.
We had the pleasure of hearing Gresley Colliery Band perform their test piece 'Was Labet', followed by Blidworth Miners Welfare Band perform their test piece 'Elgar Variations'.
The band performances were thrilling and gave us a taste of what to expect next weekend!
Thanks to Blidworth for hosting this brilliant evening.
The band gained 3rd place at the NEMBBA band contest at the Post Mill Centre, South Normanton 3rd Section. We put on a sterling performance on Saturday 21st February and are looking to improve our placing at the Midlands Area contest at Bedworth on Saturday 7th March 2026.
Our Shirebrook Band family want to say a massive thank you to 3 of our players and active committee members who left us just after Christmas. All have been instrumental in the success of the band and we can't thank them enough!
Kay Fritchley - Solo Euphonium, Keiron Brice - Soprano Cornet and Karen Bishton - 2nd Trombone. (Karen is still with the 'B' band!) We wish all the best in their new chapters.
Please welcome our friends and a big thank you to Graham Buckley of the Shirebrook 'B' band who has helped four of the players to progress into our band. (Lizzie, Andrea, Sarah and Joe - well done!)
Looking forward to a successful and busy 2026.
Our New players
Pauline Hayes - 2nd Trombone, Andrea Loomes - 3rd Cornet, Sarah Williams - 3rd Cornet, Lizzie Herron - Solo Cornet, Sam Ridley-Wallace - Solo Euphonium,
Tim Benson - Bass Trombone, Joe Martin-Morrell - Bb Bass and John Richardson - Soprano Cornet
