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Manx Music Festival 2018

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Over the weekend the band took part in the 2018 Manx Music Festival – http://www.manxmusicfestival.org/

On the Saturday the junior Ensemble class DTB Youth Band came 2nd with Does your mother know!

Ensemble Entry 2018

Ensemble Entry 2018

Pictured above the group took part in the Brass Ensemble Open Class with Someone to Watch over me finishing 3rd!
Emily (Right 2nd row in picture above) also took part in the Adult Solo Class scoring a very respectable 85 in a very tough class!

 

Then on the Sunday it was the bands turn. We were entered into all classes.

First up it was the Test Piece Class where the band played Paul Lovatt-Cooper’s Fire in The Blood and came 2nd.

Then it was onto the March and Hymn Tune Class followed by the Entertainments Class, for the Entertainments Class the band bought the bond theme with them from their Shaken, Not Stirred concert the weekend before and this went down a treat with the audience who loved it.

We were really pleased with all of our results for the evening these can be seen below:

Hymn results
= 3. Douglas Town Band 87

March results
= 5. Douglas Town Band 85

Entertainment programme results
3. Douglas Town Band 90

Most Entertaining Programme: Douglas Town Band

Guild 2018

Guild 2018

Blackpool 2018

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The band always have a busy January and February preparing for the North West Regional Championships which this year took place on the last weekend in February in Blackpool.

The band are in the 3rd Section and the set work for this year was Philip Harpers – Napoleon on the Alps.

The week before the contest is an intense week of rehearsals with our musical advisor Gordon Higginbottom. He is always ready to put the band through its paces and makes sure they are ready for the contest stage. The Thursday before we travelled we held our Open Rehearsals at St. Ninian’s Church so all our friends and family members could come and listen to the piece and see how are hard work was progressing.

Sunday is when the contest takes place and there were 16 other bands in our section. We were the 4th band to play and we came off the stage very happy with our performance. Then we wait for the results.

The results were then announced and the band had achieved 5th place! We were very happy with this result and our trophy to go with it. We then sat listening the rest of the results and to our delight we were also awarded with the best percussion prize! Well done to our percussion team on this fantastic achievement – Bethany, Terry and Bryce!

We would like to say a special thank you to the Isle of Man Steam Packet for their assistance and support with our travel to this years contest.

Here is the 4BarsRest write up of the contest – http://www.4barsrest.com/news/detail.asp?offset=40&id=32859

Christmas 2017

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The band as always had a very busy Christmas with 15 jobs playing for over 30hrs and rehearsals for our Christmas concert.

We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who supported the band at any of their events over the Christmas period this is much appreciated and such a key time of the year for the band.

Manx Music Festival 2017

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A great weekend of solos, ensembles, quartets and band playing.

The Guild 2017 has been great for the band an opportunity to show case the talents in the band.

On the Saturday afternoon we saw – Class B5. Brass Ensemble (up to Year 10) THIRD PLACE WINNERS – Douglas Town Junior Band playing ‘Marching the Saints’!!

On Saturday Evening the band had entries in the Open ensemble and quartet classes, and they all gained 3rd place on the night!

Class B6, Brass Ensemble
– Douglas Town Band A, ‘Someone to watch over me’

Someone to Watch Over Me Ensemble

Class B8, Brass Quartet

– Douglas Town Band A, ‘Clouds and Sunshine’ 

– Douglas Town Band B, ‘Four Renaissance Dances’

On the Sunday – several of the band support Castletown Metropolitan Silver Band with their return to the Guild after not having played for 31 years. You can read more about their about their adventures on their website – http://www.castletownband.im/, don’t they look fab! 😀 and a great result for them winning a new cup for this years festival, the Gordon Kennaugh Astill Cup for the Most Entertaining Programme.

North West Regional Championships

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DTB - Blackpool 2017The band has just returned from a great weekend away, representing the island at the North West Regional Championships in Blackpool. There was some tough competition in our section and we played a very respectable performance which band were please with, but unfortunately the aduicator didnt like our interpretation and placed us 15th out of 18.

Full results can be found here: https://brassbandresults.co.uk/contests/north-west-area-third-section/2017-02-26/