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| Bugle Contest Saturday 16th June 2007 | |||
| The day began at 08.45 with the youth band having a rehearsal at Bugle Village Hall. They had worked extremely hard in the previous week having had four full rehearsals as well as sectionals, so this rehearsal was to blow out the cobwebs and top and tail the test piece. | |||
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The band would like to pass on it's thanks to Bugle Village Hall
for allowing the use of such a useful venue and for their help with
supplying a storage space during the march down.
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Rachael With Her Certificate
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Next came something really quite special. It had been decided that the youth and senior bands would do the traditional march down together playing massed. Many of the youth players had never marched before and so a bit of frantic marching practice had taken place previously in Lidl's car park in the preceding weeks (thanks to Lidl's manager and to Chris Rundle who did a great job of instructing the youngsters). The resulting band was around 55 in number and allowed a very impressive 5 X 11 formation. |
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Luckily, the ever threatening rain held off and the combined bands marched off at around 10.15 playing "Imperial Echoes". After successfully negotiating the sharp left hand turn at The Bugle Inn the band continued down the main street looking and sounding really great. There were some lovely comments from the spectators, many of whom wandered how on earth the band was going to fit on stage!! The youngsters all kept in line and in step (mostly!) and at the
end of the march down both sets of players said how much they had
enjoyed it. |
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The March Down
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Back at the contest field it was the youth band
who would take to the stage first. There were just two bands in
the youth section, ourselves and St. Dennis Youth. St. Dennis were
drawn first and just as they took to the stage the first of the
day's three major downpours occurred! It was still raining when
our own youth band set their selves up, but this did not prevent
them giving a solid and well polished performance of Philip Sparkes'
"Music For A Festival". Simon Dobson, the band's musical
director said that he felt the band had played extremely well and
was very proud of them.
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The Youth Band On Stage
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Shortly after the youth bands performance, the senior
band returned to the bandroom at St. Austell for a quick final rehearsal
with professional conductor, Andrew Duncan, on the set march "Celebration"
by Lesley Condon and the evergreen test piece "Le Carnival Romain"
by Berlioz.
Andrew had travelled down from Scotland on the Wednesday beforehand for rehearsals and sectionals. |
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The Senior Band In Rehearsal
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There was an impressive eight entries in the championship section this year and the senior band were drawn to play seventh. However, half way through the performance came the second major downpour of the day along with an appearance from a low flying aircraft and a train! The only thing missing was the interruption of a car alarm as well!! |
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The Senior Band On Stage
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| Shortly after the championship
section it was time for the results. The new chairman of the West
of England Bandsmen's Festival, Leonard Adams gave the usual thanks
and gave a touching tribute to the late Peter Minear, who sadly died
recently. Leonard then kept the crowd amused in his own inimitable
style whilst the Adjudicator, Dennis Wilby, completed his write-ups
and results.
During his address to the crowd, Dennis Wilby apologised to both of the youth bands and the senior band for the interruptions by rain and plane! He went on to say how much he had enjoyed the high standard of music throughout the day. |
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Mount Charles' results were as follows: Youth Band: Senior Band: Special Awards: |
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Glen - Best Cornet Player In The Youth Section
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For full results click here
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The Best Set Of Basses
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Ian - Best Cornet Player In The Contest
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After the results the senior & youth bands formed up to march back up the main street to mark the traditional end of the contest. This time the youth players marched up behind the senior band, not playing, but carrying the various trophies and presenting a splash of colour with their black & gold rugby tops. Unfortunately, this was when the final and biggest downpour of
the day occurred but this didn't dampen any of their enthusiasm!! |
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The Very Wet March Back Up!!
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