Youth championships bring the curtain down on another fantastic Scottish Festival of Brass

Yesterday was a great day of celebration for the mother-and-daughter team of Katrina and Mae Barr who led Campbeltown’s junior bands to success at the Scottish Youth Band Championships at the Perth Concert Hall.

Katrina guided Campbeltown Development Band to its retention of the Development title while Mae, conducting at a contest for the first time, took the Campbeltown Intermediate Band to a Gold Award in the Intermediate section (below).

Riverside Youth Band and its musical director Mark Good also retained the Senior title unchallenged. Other winners were Perthshire Youth Brass, conducted by Willie McMullen, in the Intermediate category and Coalburn Bronze Band, directed by Jim Park, in the Novice class.

Twenty-eight bands took part in the championships, supported by Creative Scotland, which marked the culmination of three days of the Scottish Festival of Brass over two weekends.

Owen Farr was the adjudicator for the Novice and Non-competitive sections while Christopher Bond judged the Intermediate, Development and Senior sections.

The day before, four percussion ensembles took to the stage, with the following results:

Gold Awards

Perth & Kinross Percussion Ensemble (Lynsey Paterson) – winner

MidlothianPerc Training (Barbara-Jane Waddell)

Coalburn Percussion Academy (Robbie Bremner)

MidlothianPerc Ensemble (Barbara-Jane Waddell)

Perth & Kinross (below) were also winners of this event last year. Adjudicator was Sarah Naish of SN Percussion.

These are the results of the Scottish Youth Brass Band Championships:

Senior Section

Gold Award

Riverside Youth Band (Mark Good) – winner

Development Section

Gold Award

Campbeltown Development (Katrina Barr) - winner

Silver Awards

Loanhead Brass Youth Band (Alan Fernie)

Scottish Borders Youth Band (Stuart Black)

Irvine Youth Band (John Boax)

Intermediate Section

Gold Awards

Perthshire Youth Brass (Willie McMullen) – winner

Galashiels Youth Band (Stuart Black)

Whitburn Youth Band (Caroline Farren)

Campbeltown Intermediate (Mae Barr)

Silver Awards

Stranraer Brass Training (Angela Miller)           

Bathgate Youth Band (Stewart Brynes)

Newtongrange Junior Band (Alice Kane)

Bronze Awards

King’s Park Junior Brass (Emily Stokes)

Broxburn & Livingston Future Brass (Jim Bone)

Kirkintilloch Youth Band (Katherine Adams)

Novice Section

Gold Awards

Coalburn Bronze Band (Jim Park) – winner

Maroon Brass (Stuart Black)

Silver Awards

Perth & Kinross Brass (Elaine Stewart)

Irvine & Dreghorn Brasslets (John Boax)

KIrkton Youth Band (Karen Heenan)

Kinneil Youth Band (Scott Gardner)

Bronze Awards

Kingdom Brass Youth (Denise Crighton-Ward)

Hawick Saxhornettes (Stuart Black)

Non-competitive Section

Gold Award

St David’s & Penicuik Joint Youth (John A Dickson)

The Campbeltown youngsters celebrate their great day out in Perth