Welsh Open Champions 2019!

​On the 16th February, the band was crowned as Welsh Open Entertainment Competition champions for the second year running, and the third time in four years!

Winning by a full three points, the band was also delighted to claim the 'Best Entertainment' award, and a well-deserved 'Best Horn Section' prize.

Performing excellently from the number 14 draw, the band reprised its successful Wychavon Festival of Brass programme from 2018. Opening with the driving rhythms of Joel Collier's Thy Matchless King, euphonium soloist Anthony Smith then followed with an outstanding rendition of Finale from Rituals by Tom Davoren. Geoffry Nobes' Prelude on Quem Pastores provided a moment of tranquillity, before the tongue-in-cheek fun of Queen's Bring Back That Leroy Brown. Lastly, Benjamin Tubb's Variations on Danse Macabre brought the programme to a thunderous close.

This proved more than enough to impress Philip Harper, who in his pre-results speech stated that there was a "clear winner" that had won by a "long, long way". Separate entertainment adjudicator Sarah Hayward concurred, awarding the band the 'Best Entertainment' prize.

A huge thank you must go to everyone in the band for all the hard work, MD Tom Davoren, and all who supported us on the day. Congratulations also to all the other prize winners!

The band will now continue working hard over the next few weeks ahead of the West of England Regional Championship in Torquay on the 10th March.