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3RD SECTION CHAMPIONS OF WALES
NEWS
** Last Updated 03/12/09 **
Christmas Concerts 2009
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The Christmas season is here again !! As usual, the band will be playing virtually every day in December and it all began last Thursday with the Buckley Christmas Lights switch on. As well as playing carols at the local Tesco and Asda stores, the band will be playing the following concerts. You can also hear the band playing in the main precinct in Buckley on 5th Dec, 19th Dec, and of course on Christmas Eve.
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| 6th Dec |
Saughall Village Community Centre |
| 13th Dec |
St Mary's Church, Dodleston |
| 19th Dec |
Flint High School with Flint Male Voice Choir |
| 20th Dec |
Old Padeswood Golf Club (private) |
Harrogate 2009 : Results
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The Royal Buckley Town Band competed in the 3rd Section Finals of the National Brass Band Championships 2009 on Saturday 26th September. The band performed Oceans by Goff Richards at the Harrogate International Centre, conducted by Paul Lovatt-Cooper. After playing a solid performance off an early draw the band were awarded 6th Place by adjudicators Robert Childs and Ray Farr. The result was as follows :-
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| 1st |
Brunel Brass, John Winterflood |
| 2nd |
North Skelton, Tim Oldroyd |
| 3rd |
Cubbington Silver, Gary Smallwood |
| 4th |
Douglas Town, Gordon Higginbottom |
| 5th |
Coalburn Silver, Gareth Bowman |
| 6th |
Royal Buckley Town, Paul Lovatt-Cooper |
National Finals, Harrogate 2009
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The Royal Buckley Town Band will be heading to Harrogate tomorrow
(Saturday 26th September) to compete in the 3rd Section Finals of the National Brass Band
Championships 2009. Having qualified first in the Welsh Regional Contest earlier this year,
the Band will perform the set test piece Oceans conducted by Paul Lovatt-Cooper.
Over the past 6 months the Band has been raising funds to pay for travel and hotel
accomodation. Once such event was a Grand Prize Draw which was drawn by Lord Barry Jones PC. The Band
would like to thank him for his continued support as President.
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Even More Baby News
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Congratulations to Phil and Kate
Gallup on the rather early birth of their baby boy Ewan
Philip. Ewan was born 13th September at 14:29pm, weighing in at
a tiny 2lbs 10oz.
Mum and baby are both really well. All of our best wishes to them all. |
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The Royal Buckley Town Band would
like to wish WILF WILCOCK a very Happy 70th
Birthday. Everyone enjoyed performing
a concert for his guests at
his house yesterday, along with the great
party afterwards !!! |
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The Royal Buckley Town Band is
delighted to announce
Mark Bousie has
been appointed as our Associate Professional
Conductor. Mark will work alongside
Paul Lovatt-Cooper in preparing the band for
the National Brass Band Championship finals
to be held at the Harrogate International
Centre on September 27th 2009.
On his appointment, Mark said "I'm really pleased to be involved with Royal Buckley Town
Band. Having worked with the band recently, I was delighted to be appointed as Associate Professional Conductor. I am looking forward to working with the Band, Paul Lovatt-Cooper and MD
Dave Davies during the coming months in the lead up to the National Finals, and into next year as the band moves up into Section 2."
Find more information about Mark and Paul
HERE. |
MORE Baby News
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Congratulations to Gareth and Louise Wynne on the birth of their baby girl
Cerys Alana. Cerys was born this morning 24th July at 09:24am, weighing in at 6lbs 10oz.
Mother and baby are really well. All of our best wishes to them all. |
Buckley Jubilee 2009
Baby News
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Congratulations to Paul Lovatt-Cooper
and his girlfriend Jenny on the birth of their baby son
Luca. Luca was born last night 10th July at 11:10pm.
Mother and baby doing fine. Dad has now been peeled of
the ceiling !!! All of our best wishes to them all. |
Brighouse March & Hymn Tune Contest
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The Royal Buckley Town Band took part
in the annual March contest in Brighouse last Sunday 5th July.
First to play in the senior section, the Band once again did
not manage to avoid the rain and got another soaking !!!
A good day was had by all.
Results and adjudication can be found
here. |
More Contest Success
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The Royal Buckley Town Band performed
earlier today (Sunday 29th June) in the Rhyl Festival of
Brass entertainments contest in the 3rd Section.
Playing first in the section, the Band played a 20 minute
'set' which opened proudly with Kings of Brass by
Darrol Barry. Our principal cornet player Steve
Griffiths then serenaded the audience with Joy Webb's
Share My Yoke. Singing In The Rain came next with
the usual antics from our soprano player, followed by the
lovely Prelude: 49th Parallel by Ralph Vaughn
Williams. The Band closed with the 3rd movement of
Paul Lovatt-Cooper's fantastic test piece Dream Catchers.
A huge well done to all of the Band who
performed so well today on stage. Also,
congratulations to our MD Dave Davies and our fantastic
compere June Mason.
Results and adjudication can be found
here. |
Messing About By The River
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Royal Buckley Town Band :
The Groves, Chester 14th June 2009 |
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Royal Buckley Town Band :
Swansea 2009 |
Welsh Regional Contest News Update
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Following the review of the band's performance at the Welsh
Regional Contest on 4BarsRest, our story of success was
reported in the local press. Further coverage of the
Contest was reported on the website for the National Brass
Band Championships. Read the full story
here. According to Iwan Fox on 4barsrest, "...the contest
unfolded a bit like the Arthurian legend – band after band
trying their luck to pull a winner out of the stonelike grip
of adjudicator David Read, before one came along and plopped
it out with the ease of a Barry John drop goal."
Read
the full review of the 3rd Section including some rather
encouraging comments about Royal Buckley on
4BarsRest.com.
We look forward to your comments in our new
Guestbook. |
Contest News
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THIRD SECTION CHAMPIONS OF WALES
The Royal Buckley Town Band returned
from the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea after proudly winning
Section 3 of the Welsh Regional Brass Band Championship.
The set test piece was The Once and Future King by Andrew
Baker.
Playing from Draw Number 5, the
performance was considered the best in the section by
experienced adjudicator David Read (link
to Adjudication here).
CONGRATULATIONS to
everyone in the team, with a special mention to Paul Lovatt-Cooper
who conducted the band, and Dave Davies, our MD.
The band has now qualified to
participate in the National Brass Band Championship of Great
Britain finals to take place at the Harrogate International
Centre on Sunday 27th September. We hope our
fundraising efforts will help to cover the cost of coach and
overnight accommodation.
Full Section Three Result
| 1st |
Royal Buckley |
| 2nd |
Ynyshir |
| 3rd |
Cross Keys |
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Best
Instrumentalist - Ynyshir Solo Trombone |
A huge 'Well Done' also goes to our fellow North
Wales bands, Northop, Point of Ayr and Deiniolen who also qualified
in their respective sections. Visit our
GUESTBOOK and leave a message !
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NWABBA Contest Diary
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The North West Area Brass Band
Association has launched their brand new website. As
well as bringing you the latest News from the NWABBA, the
site provides a really useful Contest Calendar including all
2009 Regional dates and venues. You can visit the webpage
HERE. |
News From The Past !
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I recently found a website containing
details of the Penmaenmawr Silver Prize Band Quartet
& Slow Melody Contest from 1955 ! The Contest took
place on Saturday March 5th 1955 at the Penmaenmawr Young
Men's Institute. Taking part in the (Under 16) Junior Slow
Melody section were the young Wilf Wilcock and Colin Smith
who still play in the band.
Results from the 1957 and 1958 Contests are also shown, and
feature other Buckley players including Nev Wilcock, Nev
Hewitt and Glyn Smith (also an active player).
You can visit the webpage
HERE. |
Contest News
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Brass at the Guild
(Preston)
We are pleased to announce Mark Bousie has
agreed to conduct the band for the annual
Contest in Preston. As well as playing
Principal Euphonium for the Faireys Band,
Mark is an experienced conductor.
Welsh Regional
Contest (Swansea)
The Band is really
happy to announce that one of the busiest
men in banding will once again conduct us in
Swansea. Paul was unable to take us
last year as we were playing one of his own
compositions (The Dark Side of the Moon).
We look forward to taking the long journey
down to South Wales to perform Andy Baker's
The Once And Future King.
Our
CONTEST Diary
has been updated for 2009 |
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Baby News
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Many congratulations to
Jon and Viv Moss on the birth of their son Adam on Friday
5th December. Weighing in at a hefty 8lb 4oz, he
eventually decided to show his little face at 7:15am after
causing pain for his mum for more than 5 days !!!Mother and
baby are both really well. |
NWBBA North Wales Rally - Rhyl
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29/11/08 : The band
performed in the Third Section of the NWBBA Annual Rally in Rhyl Town
Hall. Playing the traditional march BB & CF followed by the test
piece St Austell Suite (by Kenneth Downie), the band achieved second
place. The adjudicator was Stan Lippeat.
Congratulations to Dave Davies (our conductor) and everyone who
played in the band !!
Full Section Three Result
| 1st |
Royal Oakley |
| 2nd |
Royal Buckley |
| 3rd |
Porthaethwy |
| Best March - Royal Oakley |
| Best Soloist - Royal Oakley (Soprano) |
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Remembrance Sunday Parade - 9th November 2008
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Our congratulations to Paul Lovatt-Cooper (RBTB Professional
Conductor) on the release of
his CD Walking With Heroes. This
CD is the first volume of recordings of compositions from
Paul, recorded with the world famous Black Dyke Band.
Amongst the 9 Track List, Paul includes Dark Side of the
Moon which was first performed (in
a Contest) by the Royal Buckley Town Band at Brass At The Guild 2007. |
VACANCIES
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