IT IS one of the brass highlights of the summer: the Holme Valley Brass Band contest.
Contests will be held all day in Holmfirth Civic Hall on Sunday, June 9 starting at 11am.
The youth section competes first with Section B up next and the Section A bands rounding off the day’s contesting.
For many in the valley, the march which follows from the Postcard Inn along Huddersfield Road and down Victoria Street to the Old Bridge Hotel, is one of the markers of the start of summer. It should finish at around 6.30pm.
The adjudicator is Colin Hardy with Stuart Fawcett casting an expert eye over deportment.
Bands lined up to play are (Youth Section): Hade Edge Youth Band (conducted by Simon Wood), Hade Edge Training Band (Simon Wood), Scissett Youth Band (Simon Mansfield).
Section B: Boarshurst Silver (David Ashworth), Dinnington Colliery Band (Jonathan Beatty), Dobcross Youth Band (Jon Parkes), Dronfield Band (John Davis), Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Band (Ian Knapton), Skelmanthorpe B Band (Philip Garlick).
Section A: Delph Band (Jonathan Davies), Hade Edge Band (Simon Wood), Meltham and Meltham Mills Band (Norman Law), Old Silkstone Band (Simon Kerwin), Ripon City Band (Malcolm Dibb), Slaithwaite Band (Tabby Clegg), Strata Brass Band (David Holling) Uppermill (Alan Widdop).
