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NATIONAL FESTIVAL
16TH / 17TH MARCH 2024
Warwick Hall & King's High Hall
Warwick School, Myton Rd, Warwick CV34 6PP
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NATIONAL FESTIVAL 2023/24
16th - 17th April 2024
Warwick Hall & King's High Hall
Warwick School, Myton Rd, Warwick CV34 6PP
Tickets per day:
£9.00 full
£7.00 concession
£28.00 family (of up to 2 adults + 3 children)
Book Online, email boxoffice@warwickschool.org or phone 01296 776438
Trade Exhibitors
SATURDAY 16TH MARCH: KING'S HALL
09.35 Co-operative Community Wind Band (30) (CWB)
10.10 Amersham Music Centre Concert Band (35) (YWB)
10.45 Co-operative Youth Wind Band (35) (YWB)
11.40 The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (* Warwick Hall)
12.05 Presentation of Awards (* Warwick Hall)
12.45 Bolton School Concert Band (22) (SWB)
13.20 Rochdale Community Wind Band (32) (CWB)
13.55 North Ayrshire Schools Concert Band (32) (YWB)
14.30 Wardle Academy Wind Band (40) (SWB)
15.25 The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (* Warwick Hall)
15.55 Presentation of Awards (* Warwick Hall)
16.15 XBY Concert Band (40) (OWB)
16.50 Kew Wind Orchestra (40) (OWB)
17.25 St Cat’s Ensemble (41) (OWB)
18.20 The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (* Warwick Hall)
18.50 Presentation of Awards (* Warwick Hall)
SATURDAY 16TH MARCH: WARWICK HALL
09.45 Chiltern Music Academy Concert Band (38) (YWB)
10.20 Blackwell Concert Band (51) (CWB)
10.55 Barnsley Town Concert Band (45) (YWB)
11.40 The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
12.05 Presentation of Awards
12.50 London Youth Concert Band (55) (YWB)
13.25 University of Warwick Wind Orchestra (60) (CWB)
14.00 Newark & Sherwood Concert Band (40) (CWB)
14.35 Oldham Youth Wind Band (40) (YWB)
15.25 The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
15.55 Presentation of Awards
16.20 Huddersfield Wind Band (43) (CWB)
16.55 Silver Spectrum (40) (CWB)
17.30 Strathclyde University Concert Band (70)
18.20 The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
18.50 Presentation of Awards
SUNDAY 17TH MARCH: KING'S HALL
09.30 Northampton School for Boys Big Band (23) (SBB)
10.05 Warwick School Jazz Lab (18) (SBB)
10.40 University of Warwick Big Band (17) (OBB)
11.15 Wrekin College Jazz Band (23) (SBB)
11.50 Warwick School Big Band (16) (SBB)
12.30 Presentation of Awards (King’s Hall)
13.15 Warwick School Little Big Band (20) (JBB)
13.50 Altrincham Grammar School for Boys Big Band (18) (SBB)
14.25 Cardinal Vaughan Big Band (17) (SBB)
15.00 Mountbatten Big Band (25) (SBB)
15.35 Barry Graham Big Band (21) (SBB)
16.15 Presentation of Awards (King’s Hall)
16.30 Shrewsbury School Jazz Band (33) (SBB)
17.05 Northamptonshire County Youth Big Band (23) (YBB)
17.40 Shrewsbury School Big Band (21) (SBB)
18.15 Stafford Grammar School Big Band (17) (SBB)
18.55 Presentation of Awards (King’s Hall)
SUNDAY 17TH MARCH: WARWICK HALL
09.15 Warwick School Supertonics (30) (JWB)
09.45 Abingdon Concert Band (41) (OWB)
10.15 Wrekin College Concert Band (48) (SWB)
10.45 Northampton Concert Band (60) (CWB)
11.15 Woodley Concert Band (50) (CWB)
11.50 Presentation of Awards
12.05 Altrincham Grammar School for Boys Concert Band (39) (SWB)
12.35 Cardinal Vaughan Concert Band (39) (SWB)
13.05 Nottingham Trent University Concert Band (35) (CWB)
13.35 Presentation of Awards
14.15 Durham University Concert Band (40) (OWB)
14.45 Reading Senior Wind Band (58) (YWB)
15.15 Derbyshire City & County Youth Wind Band (48) (YWB)
15.50 Presentation of Awards
16.05 Stafford Grammar School Concert Band (38) (SWB)
16.35 Manchester University Wind Orchestra (45) (OWB)
17.05 Staffordshire Community Wind Orchestra (36) (CWB)
17.35 Trinity School Symphonic Wind Orchestra (48) (SWB)
18.05 Northamptonshire County Youth Concert Band (59) (YWB)
18.40 Presentation of Awards
PAST FESTIVALS 2023/24
Sunday 21st January 2024
SCOTLAND - Garnock Community Campus, Glengarnock
Sunday 3rd December 2023
WARWICK - Warwick Hall, Warwick School
Sunday 26th November 2023
OLDHAM - Crompton House Academy
Sunday 19th November 2023
NORTHAMPTON - Cripps Hall, Northampton
Saturday 5th November 2023
LONDON & HOME COUNTIES (CROWTHORNE) - Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
Sunday 29th October 2023
SOUTHAMPTON - The Mountbatten School, Romsey, Hampshire
Adjudicators
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11:00 | Thornden Community Band (CWB) |
Conductor: Gary Chong | |
To A New Dawn Philip Sparke | |
O Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen arr. Reynolds | |
11:35 | St Cat’s Ensemble (OWB) |
Conductor: Adam Broughton | |
Shepherd’s Hey Percy Grainger | |
Yiddish Dances Adam Gorb | |
12:10 | Southampton Concert Wind Band (CWB) |
Conductor: Calum Gray | |
Drive! Patrick Roszell | |
A Glimpse of Paradise Rob Wiffin | |
First Suite in E Flat Gustav Holst | |
12:45 | Mountbatten Wind Band (SWB) |
Conductor: Rachael Armstrong | |
Whispers from Beyond Rossano Galante | |
The King Across The Water Bruce Fraser | |
13:10 | Presentation of Awards |
14:00 | Mountbatten Big Band (SBB) |
Director: Stu Marchant | |
Ivory Moon Larry Neek | |
Cantaloupe Island Herbie Hancock arr. Kamuf | |
14:35 | Abingdon Concert Band (CWB) |
Conductor: Neil Brownless | |
Whispers from Beyond Rossano Galante | |
Mexicana Thierry Deleruyelle | |
Spirit of the Sequoia Philip Sparke | |
15:10 | Romsey Youth Concert Band (YWB) |
Conductor: Carrie Hensel | |
El Arco de Los Cabos Ed Huckeby | |
Les Miserables Boublil/Schonberg arr. Sweeney | |
Danzon Bernstein arr. Bocook | |
A Klezmer Karnival Philip Sparke | |
15:35 | Presentation of Awards |
Band | Warm Up | Perform | Awards |
Thornden Community WB (47) CWB | 10:30 | 11:00 | 13:10 |
St Cat’s Ensemble (44) OWB | 11:05 | 11:35 | 13:10 |
Southampton Concert WB (40) CWB | 11:40 | 12:10 | 13:10 |
Mountbatten Wind Band ((45) SWB | 12:15 | 12:45 | 13:10 |
Mountbatten Big Band (25) SBB | 13:30 | 14:00 | 15:35 |
Abingdon Concert Band (45) CWB | 14:05 | 14:35 | 15:35 |
Romsey Youth Concert Band (35) YWB | 14:40 | 15:10 | 15:35 |