User:WilliamF1two/Band of the Year/2000

Rochdale Contest
Date: Sunday 30th January 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Town Hall, Rochdale Format: Own choice (combined Championship and First sections) Adjudicator: Lloyd Landry

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points Blackburn and Darwen and Marsden Silver were awarded points despite being from the First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at other contests later in the year

Durham League Contest
Date: Sunday 6th February 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leisure Centre, Peterlee Format: Set test (Sinfonietta for Brass Band - The Wayfarer – Eric Ball) Adjudicator: Malcolm Brownbill

NWABBA Contest
Date: Sunday 6th February 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 King George's Hall, Blackburn Format: Own choice (combined Championship and First sections) Adjudicator: Roy Newsome

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points Blackburn and Darwen were awarded points despite being from the First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at other contests during the year

Oxfordshire & District BBA Winter Contest
Date: Sunday 20th February 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cowley Conservative Club, Oxford Format: Own choice (combined Championship, First and Second sections) Adjudicator: Bram Wiggins

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points

Midlands Area
Date: Sunday 5th March 2000 Class: B Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Town Hall, Burton upon Trent Format: Set test (Variations on an Enigma – Philip Sparke) Adjudicator: William Relton

Yorkshire Area
Date: Sunday 5th March 2000 Class: B Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 St George's Hall, Bradford Format: Set test (Variations on an Enigma – Philip Sparke) Adjudicator: Philip Sparke

North West Area
Date: Sunday 12th March 2000 Class: B Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Winter Gardens, Blackpool Format: Set test (Variations on an Enigma – Philip Sparke) Adjudicator: John Berryman

London and Southern Counties Area
Date: Sunday 19th March 2000 Class: B Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arts & Leisure Centre, Stevenage Format: Set test (Variations on an Enigma – Philip Sparke) Adjudicator: Goff Richards

North of England Area
Date: Sunday 19th March 2000 Class: B Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dolphin Centre, Darlington Format: Set test (Variations on an Enigma – Philip Sparke) Adjudicator: Richard Evans

Scottish Championship
Date: Sunday 19th March 2000 Class: B Location: Walker Halls, Troon Format: Set test (Variations on an Enigma – Philip Sparke) Adjudicator: James Gourlay

Welsh Area
Date: Sunday 19th March 2000 Class: B Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Brangwyn Hall, Swansea Format: Set test (Variations on an Enigma – Philip Sparke) Adjudicator: David Read

West of England Area
Date: Sunday 26th March 2000 Class: B Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Colston Hall, Bristol Format: Set test (Variations on an Enigma – Philip Sparke) Adjudicator: Geoffrey Whitham

Tameside Open Championships
Date: Sunday 2nd April 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tameside Hippodrome, Ashton-under-Lyne Format: Own choice Adjudicator: Peter Parkes

Only bands from the national Championship section were eligible for points Haydock Ogden Travel were awarded points despite being from the national First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at the NWABBA Preston District Contest later in the year

Carnegie Invitation Contest
Date: Saturday 15th April 2000 Class: E Location: Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline Format: Own choice Adjudicator: Melvin White

European Championships
Date: Saturday 29th April 2000 Class: A Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Symphony Hall, Birmingham Format: Set test (Tallis Variations – Philip Sparke) and own choice Adjudicators: Michael Barras, Tom Brevik and Torgny Hansson (set test), Nigel Boddice, Durk Lautenbach and Martin Winter (own choice)

Only bands from England, Scotland and Wales were eligible for points

Buxton Festival
Date: Sunday 30th April 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Pavilion Gardens, Buxton Format: Own choice (combined Championship and First sections) Adjudicator: Dennis Wilby

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points Blackburn and Darwen were awarded points despite being from the First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at other contests during the year

East Anglian BBA Spring Festival
Date: Sunday 30th April 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich Format: Set test (Constable Country – Derek Broadbent) Adjudicator: Derek Broadbent

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points

Grand Shield
Date: Saturday 6th May 2000 Class: B Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Victoria Hall, Bolton Format: Set test (Variations on the Shining River – Edmund Rubbra arr. Frank Wright) Adjudicators: David Read and James Scott

Weston-super-Mare Contest
Date: Sunday 7th May 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare Format: Own choice (combined Championship and First sections) Adjudicator: Frank Renton

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points Staines Brass were awarded points despite being from the First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at the SCABA Spring Contest later in the year

SEWBBA (Ebbw Vale) Contest
Date: Saturday 13th May 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Leisure Centre, Ebbw Vale Format: Set test (Diadem of Gold – George Bailey arr. Frank Wright) Adjudicator: Malcolm Brownbill

Holme Valley Brass Band Contest
Date: Sunday 14th May 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Civic Hall, Holmfirth Format: Own choice (combined Championship, First and Second sections) Adjudicator: Sydney Swancott

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points Marsden Silver were awarded points despite being from the First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at the Rochdale Contest earlier in the year

SCABA Spring Contest
Date: Sunday 14th May 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Hawth Theatre, Crawley Format: Own choice Adjudicator: James Scott

Only bands from England, Scotland and Wales were eligible for points Brass Band Willebroek were awarded points despite being from Belgium, as they also entered other contests during the year Only bands from the national Championship were eligible for points Staines Brass were awarded points despite being from the national First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at the Weston-super-Mare Contest earlier in the year

All England Masters
Date: Sunday 28th May 2000 Class: C Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Corn Exchange, Cambridge Format: Set test (Contest Music – Wilfred Heaton) Adjudicators: David Read, William Relton and James Scott

West of England Bandsmen's Festival
Date: Saturday 17th June 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Molinnis Park, Bugle Format: Set test (The Land of the Long White Cloud - Aotearoa – Philip Sparke) Adjudicator: John Berryman

Land o' Burns
Date: Saturday 26th August 2000 Class: D Location: Walker Halls, Troon Format: Own choice Adjudicators: Bruce Fraser and David Read

British Open
Date: Saturday 9th September 2000 Class: A Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Symphony Hall, Birmingham Format: Set test (Ceremony – Michael Ball) Adjudicators: John Iveson, William Relton and James Williams

West Wales BBA Festival Contest
Date: Saturday 23rd September 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Amman Valley Comprehensive School, Ammanford Format: Own choice Adjudicator: Alan Hope

NWABBA Preston District Contest
Date: Sunday 1st October 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Marine Hall, Fleetwood Format: Own choice (combined Championship and First section) Adjudicator: Dennis Wilby

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points Haydock Ogden Travel were awarded points despite being from the First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at the Tameside Open Championships earlier in the year

National Mineworkers
Date: Saturday 7th October 2000 Class: C Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Winter Gardens, Blackpool Format: Set test (The Forest of Dean – Derek Bourgeois) Adjudicator: David Read

Only bands from the national Championship section were eligible for points

SCABA Autumn Contest
Date: Sunday 15th October 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone Format: Own choice Adjudicator: David Read

Only bands from England, Scotland and Wales were eligible for points Only bands from the national Championship section were eligible for points Welwyn Garden City were awarded points despite being from the First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at the Aylesbury (Bucks & District BBA) Contest later in the year

National Championship of Great Britain
Date: Saturday 21st October 2000 Class: A Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Royal Albert Hall, London Format: Set test (Harrison's Dream – Peter Graham) Adjudicators: David Read, William Relton and John Wallace

Pontins Championship
Date: Sunday 29th October 2000 Class: C Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Pontins, Prestatyn Format: Set test (Paganini Variations – Philip Wilby) Adjudicators: Roy Newsome and Geoffrey Whitham

Forth Valley Championships
Date: Saturday 18th November 2000 Class: E Location: Town Hall, Falkirk Format: Own choice Adjudicator: Colin Hardy

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points

Reading Contest
Date: Saturday 18th November 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Hexagon, Reading Format: Set test (Ballet for Band – Joseph Horovitz) Adjudicators: David Marshall and Goff Richards

Brass in Concert
Date: Sunday 19th November 2000 Class: D Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leisure Centre, Spennymoor Format: Entertainments Adjudicators: Geoffrey Brand and David Read (music), Ian Dickinson and John Hinckley (entertainment) and Derek Southcott (soloist)

Only bands from England, Scotland and Wales were eligible for points

Wilkinson Northern Open
Date: Sunday 19th November 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Theatre Royal, St Helens Format: Set test (The Essence of Time – Peter Graham) Adjudicator: David Horsfield

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points Blackburn and Darwen were awarded points despite being from the First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at other contests during the year

GBBA Own Choice Contest
Date: Sunday 26th November 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Royal Forest of Dean College, Coleford Format: Own choice Adjudicator: Goff Richards

Aylesbury (Bucks & District BBA) Contest
Date: Sunday 3rd December 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Civic Centre Theatre, Aylesbury Format: Own choice Adjudicators: Lloyd Landry and Michael Pegram

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points Welwyn Garden City were awarded points despite being from the First section, as they also achieved a top 5 finish at the SCABA Autumn Contest earlier in the year

Hartlepool Brass Band Contest
Date: Sunday 3rd December 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Borough Hall, Hartlepool Format: Own choice Adjudicator: Alan Exley

West Midlands BBA Contest
Date: Sunday 3rd December 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa Format: Own choice Adjudicator: Roy Curran

North Wales Rally
Date: Saturday 9th December 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Friars School, Bangor Format: Own choice (combined Championship and First sections) Adjudicator: James Scott

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points

Widnes Open
Date: Sunday 10th December 2000 Class: E Location: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Queens Hall, Widnes Format: Own choice (combined Championship and First sections) Adjudicator: Roy Sparkes

Only bands from the Championship section were eligible for points