HEPWORTH BAND TO REPRESENT YORKSHIRE AT THE NATIONAL FINALS

The Hepworth band will join Black Dyke, Brighouse & Rastrick and Carlton Main Frickley Colliery bands to represent Yorkshire at the finals of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain at the Royal Albert Hall, London in October.
The band directed by its new young conductor Ryan Watkins secured qualification at the Yorkshire Regional Brass Band Championships held in Huddersfield Town Hall at the weekend, finishing third to Carlton Main and Black Dyke with Brighouse & Rastrick fourth, as 14 championship section brass bands from across the region competed for the honour of representing Yorkshire at the national finals.
A delighted conductor Ryan paid tribute to the band saying “it was such a musically satisfying performance and the players deserve the credit for all their hard work and effort”

Full Results:
Championship Section:
Test Piece: A Tale As Yet Untold (Philip Sparke)
Adjudicators: Nigel Boddice MBE and Garry Cutt
1. Black Dyke (Prof Nicholas Childs)
2. Carlton Main Frickley Colliery (Allan Withington)
3. Hepworth (Ryan Watkins)
4. Brighouse & Rastrick (Prof David King)
5. Elland Silver (Daniel Brooks)
6. City of Bradford (Lee Skipsey)
7. Hatfield & Askern Colliery (Stanley Lippeatt)
8. Skelmanthorpe (Martin Heartfield)
9. Rothwell Temperance (David Roberts)
10. Hammonds (Morgan Griffiths)
11. Grimethorpe Colliery (Dr. David Thornton)
12. Strata (Jonathan Bates)
13. Crofton Silver (Dean Jones)
14. Drighlington (Neil Robinson)

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