 The band added to it's haul of trophies during it's recent outing at the RSPBA North East England Branch indoor competitions held at Sunningdale School, Sunderland on the 25th April 2009. The band picked up a commendable 4th in the Mini Band competition but the highlight of the day was taking 1st Place in the Quartets with Quartet 1. The band played 4/4 marches "Early Morning, Music of Spey, Battle of Killiecrankie, Bonny Lass of Fyvie" for the mini-band competition which was probably our downfall that led to only achieving 4th place. Technically, the performance was reasonably OK but I think we finally learned the lesson today that 4/4 marches are not the best tunes for our band to play at competition.
On the other hand, we used our MAPS set of Correchoilies, Teribus, Pipers Cave with the addition of a special arrangement of The High Road to Gareloch in the Quartets. What a difference! The band took first and fourth place and we think the different ending to High Road may have helped swing it for us as the adjudicator comment of "Oo' er Missus, what a fine ending" probably suggests!!!
Onwards and Upwards!!
Picture: The Winning Quartet. From Left Campbell Barlow, P/M Mark Jamieson, P/Sgt Graham Hall, Callum Wadsworth. |
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