HAIL SMILING MORN - Highlights from Uppermill Whit Friday Contest 2002

Highlights from the Uppermill Whit Friday Contest 24th May 2002 including full performances from 30 of the 59 bands that competed that day.
This is a digital conversion of a VHS recording originally made and sold by Paul Rayner Photography in Huddersfield and the copyright remains with that company. I have made no edits nor attempted to fix any issues with colour or audio from the original VHS footage.
In compiling the list of bands and pieces I have corrected or updated some details based on the information about the contest published at brassbandresul... and I have added names of conductors where I can identify them. If you have any further information or corrections please leave a comment below.
Interesting what Goff has to say about choice of marches, in comparison to his comments at the end of the 2000 contest!
00:00:09 Credits
00:02:12 Various bands marching and waiting including Dobcross Silver
00:05:17 Dobcross Silver - Mephistopheles
00:11:22 Egham (Gareth Green) - The Avenger
00:15:19 Mercia Brass - The Victor's Return
00:19:15 Various bands marching and waiting including Diggle and Northern Brass (RNCM)
00:21:31 Northern Brass (RNCM) - Mephistopheles
00:27:29 Marsden - Honest Toil
00:32:48 Holme Silver (Ian Scott) - Knight Templar
00:37:49 Nestle Rowntree - The President
00:42:19 Various bands marching and waiting including Tewitt Youth and Slaithwaite
00:44:48 Slaithwaite - Harlequin
00:50:06 Various bands marching and waiting including Dobcross Youth
00:50:56 Dobcross Youth - Peace and War
00:56:06 Mossley Hollins High School - Arnhem
01:00:05 Wardle High School - The Elephant
01:05:05 Sunline International Navigation Brass - The Senator
01:11:04 Rochdale Borough Youth - O.R.B.
01:16:11 Brighouse & Rastrick (David Hirst) - Ravenswood
01:21:44 Staines - Ravenswood
01:26:43 Various bands marching and waiting including Deepcar, Leicestershire Co-Op and Coleshill Town
01:28:55 Banks Brass - The Field Day
01:33:57 Blackburn & Darwen - Mephistopheles
01:39:38 Lydgate - Cornish Cavalier
01:44:31 Aunt Bessie's East Yorkshire Brass - The Black Knight
01:49:51 Dungannon - The Chieftain
01:54:25 Eccleston Brass - The Bombardier
01:59:08 Rhyl Silver - The Senator
02:05:08 Manx Concert Brass - Castell Coch
02:09:50 Diggle Training - True and Trusty
02:12:49 Staffordshire Building Society - Ravenswood
02:17:26 Haydock Ogden Travel - The Wizard
02:23:00 Northop - Ravenswood
02:27:56 Meltham & Meltham Mills - Knight Templar
02:33:27 ASDA Stocksbridge (Derek Renshaw) - Honest Toil
02:39:06 Wingates - Ravenswood
02:44:09 Adjudicator remarks and results
02:46:52 Winning band - Brighouse & Rastrick (David Hirst) - Ravenswood
Adjudicator - Goff Richards
RESULTS
Open Section
1 - Brighouse & Rastrick
2 - Dobcross Silver
3 - Wingates
4 - ASDA Stocksbridge
Local Section
1 - Marsden
2 - Tintwistle
3 - Meltham & Meltham Mills
Youth Section
1 - Rochdale Borough Youth
2 - Dobcross Youth
3 - Tewitt Youth
Waggon Inn Trophy - Delph
Deportment Prize - Cheshire Constabulary
Euphonium Solo Prize - Haydock Ogden Travel
Recorded on 24th May 2002 at the King George V Playing Field, Uppermill, Greater Manchester, UK
(c) Copyright 2002 Paul Rayner Photography
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