Reflections on a successful Scottish Festival of Brass - part 1

Now that the dust has settled on another successful Scottish Festival of Brass weekend, it’s time for a few pictorial reflections.

First of all, congratulations to all the prize winners and also well done to all participating bands – from the elite Championship Section contenders in the Scottish Open, supported by Besson, on Saturday to the young musicians in Sunday’s Youth Championships starting out on their brass playing journey.

Two weeks earlier the lower section bands fought it out for the honours in the Band Supplies Scottish Challenge – again, many congratulations to the winners and to all the bands who took to the stage to make the event such a statement that Scottish banding was back in business!

From that contest, here is the first batch of photographs...

Members of Bathgate Band celebrate winning the Scottish Challenge Shield

Challenge runners-up were Bo'ness & Carriden

Newmilns & Galston was awarded third place

Clackmannan District was the highest placed 2nd Section band

Dysart Colliery was the best 3rd Section band

Best 4th Section band was Brass Sounds Inverclyde

Coalburn Silver won the Anthony Hope Memorial Trophy for the best horn section

Blair Collins, Coalburn Silver flugel, won the 4barsrest award for the best instrumentalist

The inaugural Paul Dornan Memorial Award for best principal cornet went to George Doherty of Bathgate Band

Photos from the Scottish Open to follow