News 2010.
Saddleworth’s Area Test Piece Evening.
5 bands played the Area Test Pieces last evening for Dr Roy Newsome to adjudicate.
'This has been a splendid evening with some very good quality playing.' Dr. Newsome.
Over 350 people packed into every room of the club to listen to the evenings entertainment
with the hope of leaving with some small advantage gain by listening to the bands and to the
adjudication from Dr Newsome.
We hope that all enjoyed it as it appears that it will become an annual event. Well Done everyone.
Runners and Riders for the NW Area Contest.
Fourth Section:
Spanish Hall, Winter Gardens, Blackpool.
Split Draw 10.30am and 1.15pm
Commence 11.30am
Adjudicator: Steve Pritchard-Jones
Besses Boys (James Holt)
Blackley (Adrian Smith)
Boarshurst Silver (David Ashworth)
Brindle (John Smith)
City of Chester (Philip Mottershead)
Coppull & Standish (Graham Martin)
Darwen Brass (Steve Hartley)
Denton Brass (Colin Myers)
Dobcross Youth (James Garlick)
Ellenbrook & Boothstown (Craig Mann)
Farnworth & Walkden (Peter Ashley)
Friezland (Chris Partington)
Golborne (David Houghton)
Greenfield (Stuart Black)
Hazel Grove (Nigel Beasley)
Littleborough Public (Adrian Woodhead)
Nelson Brass (Steve Brodie)
Parr (Richardson Ltd) St. Helens (John Ludden)
Pilling Jubilee Silver (Billy Porter)
Rivington & Adlington (Malcolm Wilson)
Sale Brass (John Dickinson)
Tarleton Brass (Barry Taylor)
Tottington Public (Daniel Price)
3rd Place at Brass at the Guild.
The band played at the Brass at the Guild Contest at Preston on Sunday 7th February. Playing 'Shine as the LIght', a very well played performace was given with every band member being pleased with their individual performance when they left the stage.
When the results where announce we were judges to finish in 3rd place. Well done everyone.
The full result was as follows:-
Section 4
Adjudicator: David Read MBE
1. Darwen Brass (S.Hartley) (6) 184pts
2. Besses Boys (J.Holt) (5) 182pts
3. Boarshurst Silver (D.Ashworth) (3) 181ts
4. Tarleton Brass (B.Taylor) (4) 179pts
5. Sale Brass (J.Dickinson) (1) 177pts
6. Greenfield (S.Black) (8) 176pts
7. Parr (Richardson Ltd) (R.Prescott) (2) 174pts
8. Tottington Public (D.Price) (7) 171pts
More Guests to visit Boarshurst on Whit Friday.
Following the very successful visit last year of The Feilson Band from Holland, this year Boarshurst will be welcoming the Verwood Concert Band from Dorset.
The visit, arranged by our M.D. and Mark Marsh, whose roots are in Saddleworth. Mark plays Principal Cornet with Verwood and has as recently as last Whit Friday, played Sop with Boarshurst.
The Verwood Concert Band will be travelling up on Friday morning and are staying in a Hotel in Oldham. They will be playing at the Whit Friday Contest followed on the Saturday night with a concert at The Band Club commencing at 8pm.
Dr. Roy Newsome will be at Boarshurst.
On the 28th February Dr Roy Newsome will be adjudicating the evening of Test Pieces as announced.
It has been decided that in view of the amount of pieces to get through, and the fact that Dr Roy will be addressing the bands at the end of the evening, the event will start with the evening with the Boarshurst Silver Band at the new time of 7.30pm.
All welcome addmission is only £1.00 per person.
Details of Area Contest..
Boarshurst Band are one of twenty three, 4th Section Bands competeing in the North West Area Championships.
It has been announced that the Contest will be held in the Spanish Hall, at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on the 14th March 2010.
Boarshurst Band have been allocated into the 2nd half of the draw, which will be held at 1.15pm on the day. The actual contest commences at 11.30am. However as a result of this information, we will be rehearsing at the Band Club at 10am prior to the coach leaving for Blackpool at 11.30am.
The first 3 will qualify for the National Finals at Harrogate in September.
Two New Signings For The Area Championships.
The Band are extremley pleased to announce two new signings for the Area Contest at Blackpool's
Winter Garden on 14th March.
Nicola Murray has signed from the United Co-op Milnrow Band to replace Darren Mosses on the front row for the Area, whilst Darren is on holiday.
Nic played Principal Cornet with the BMP Europe when David Ashworth Snr. was conducting them, she
then moved onto Repiano Cornet at Y.B.S. and before moving to Milnrow.
Nic comes with a considerable amout of experience after playing at the National Finals and also playing in the British Open both with Y.B.S..
David N Ashworth, son of our Musical Director, has signed from The Championship National Finalists,
Pemberton Old Band DW.
David will play Soprano to cover for Rachel Boardman, again for the Area. Rachel is due to sit her GCSE examinations.
He also has great experience after having recently also played in The Grand Shield and the English Masters.
Prior to moving to Pemberton he played Flugel Horn with the Oldham Band (Lees)
Dave Ashworth Snr., the Band's M.D. is very pleased to have been able to attract the couple to Boarshurst.
Saddleworth’s Area Test Piece Evening.
An evening when all 5 Area Test Pieces will be played has been arranged to take place at the Boarshurst Band Club,
Greenbridge Lane, Greenfield, Saddleworth on Sunday 28th February 2010.
All spectators are welcome. Admission price will be only £1-00 per person.
The Clubs bar will be open in between band performances.
The 5 Bands taking part are:-
Boarshurst Silver Band conducted by David W Ashworth.
Uppermill Band conducted by Alan Widdop.
Dobcross Silver Band conducted by Grenville Moore.
Oldham Band (Lees) conducted by John Collins.
The United Co-op Milnrow Band conducted by John Ward.
Each band will play one short musical item for warming up purposes followed
immediately by the respective Test Piece.
Times and Order of performance.
7.30 prompt. Boarshurst Band. Musical item followed by the 4th Section test piece.
8.00 prompt. Uppermill Band. Musical Item followed by 3rd Section Test Piece.
8.30 prompt. Dobcross Silver. Musical Item followed by 2nd Section Test Piece.
9.00 prompt. Oldham Band (Lees). Musical item followed by 1st Section Test Piece.
9.30 prompt. United Co-op. Milnrow Band. Musical item followed by Championship Section Test Piece.
Area Test Pieces.
Championship:- English Heritage.
1st Section:- Moorside Suite.
2nd Section:- Kingdom of Dragons.
3rd Section:- Labour and Love.
4th Section:- Sans Saens Variations.
Rehearsal back on track.
Rehearsals for the up and coming Brass at the Guild Contest in Preston Guild Hall on
Sunday 7th February,
are well ahead of schedule following this weeks sectional evenings.Delays caused by the
recent weather have now been overcome.
A great deal of hard work was undertaken by the Cornets and Horns on Monday and the bottom end
of the band on Tuesday evening to get rehearsals back on track.
Well done to everyone for all the efforts.
A huge thank you also goes to Brian Daber from
BMP Europe Goodshaw Band, who
who, at very short notice, volunteered to play Bass Trombone at the contest due to our own
player Roy Conway being previously
engaged at work.
Many Thanks Brian.
Hopefully back to rehearsals after more heavy snow falls..
afternoon a JCB was hired to remove the majority of the snow from the Club car park.
A call went out on Wednesday evening for the band members to muck in and clear the rest of the snow from the surrounding areas.Unfortunately the response was very poor, but altogether 10 of us made sure that rehearsals from Thursday will go ahead. THANK YOU.
Band back to rehearsals after the heavy snow falls..
Monday 11th January see the band return to normal rehearsals following the very
heavy weather.
Rehearsals had to be cancelled on the 5th of January due to very heavy snowfalls in Greenfield which
totaly blocked access to the Band Club with snow being 16 inches thick in parts of Greenbridge Lane and
3 feet drifts blocking the parking areas.
The cancellation has caused severe problems with preparations for Preston Contest and the Area Contest
but we are sure that we will return to normality as soon as possible.
'The members of the band are very committed to the cause and are very hard working. I do really
hope that they have all been
practicing at home to keep their lips in'. said M.D. Dave Ashworth when asked.
Preston Contest is on the 7th February and the Area Contest is on the 14th March.
Boarshurst Band, celebrate 160 years with new music and a new
‘COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE’.
Press Release to 4 bars rest for January 2010.
In December 1849, the Boarshurst Silver Band was formed in the Saddleworth village
of Greenfield.
To commemorate this event, being that of the bands 160th Anniversary, and also the
30th Anniversary of the opening of the Boarshurst Band Club in 1979, the bands Musical
Director, David W Ashworth approached the very experienced composer,
Keith Lever,
to write a very special street march especially for the band.
The March, entitled ‘Greenbridge’, has been named after Greenbridge Lane, Greenfield,
which is where the Band Club is sited.
The Boarshurst Silver Band will be playing the 'GREENBRIDGE' march as their ‘Street March’ at
the 2010 Saddleworth Whit Friday Quick March Contests.
As a result of their 40 years of friendship, David asked Keith to consider accepting
the position of ‘Composer in Residence’, with the Boarshurst Silver Band. This offer,
Keith gladly accepted with great pleasure, he will take up the position in the New Year.
However, numerous pieces of new music ranging from fanfares to solo works
and concert items have already been discussed and will be included to the bands
2010 Concert Programmes.