On Sunday the 6th March, Cranbrook Town Band took part in the first scaba contest since their 2020 Spring contest held back before the days of Covid and the life changing restrictions that were put on all of us. 10 bands played to a packed audience in a new venue at Reigate College. Joining the […]
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Bands from across the South East including Cranbrook, enjoyed a change of date and venue for the annual scaba Spring contest with a visit to the Attenborough Centre on Sunday 8th March. The building is part of the University of Sussex which seems to span across a large part of the area. The Adjudicator for
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On a bright and unusually warm Sunday the 24th February, members of the band once again set off on the annual trek across counties to play in the scaba Spring contest at the Hawth theatre in Crawley, West Sussex. Getting Ready It had been a somewhat fraught and problematic lead up to the contest with
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The band were able to find time to enter the scaba Spring contest at Crawley again this year and were awarded the prize for best March in their section for the performance of “The British Bandsman”. A special congratulations go to Ian on an outstanding success rate in the March competition having won for the
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SCABA Spring Contest The band are delighted to report another successful outing at this years Spring Contest. Playing “Portrait of a City” by Philip Sparke, together with the march “Centaur” and hymn “Nottingham”, we managed two first places as well as scooping both the conductor and Soloist prizes. Congratulations to David Newsom, the bands principal euphonium
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Contesting The Band took up contesting after a long break in 1988. It was felt by the new MD and committee that contesting was a good way to improve the technical ability of the band and hence the performances we were able to give. While a winning result has never been the sole aim from
The band were delighted with their best ever trophy haul at the SCABA Spring contest. Cranbrook Town Band took part in the Southern Counties Amateur Band Association’s Annual Spring Contest on 28th April and enjoyed outstanding success. Competing in the Second Section of the Association (www.scaba.co.uk) which has members from all over the South East,
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SCABA Spring Contest 2012 The band are pleased to announce their recent success at the SCABA Spring Contest. Playing the piece “Glorifico Aeternum”, we came third overall in our section. While we didn’t quite get the top spot we were hoping for, we did however win the March contest and pick up a best instrumentalist
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2010 SCABA Spring Contest Sunday the 19th of April, saw the band travel to Hove for the annual SCABA Spring contest. Despite the competition clashing with the Brighton Marathon this year, everyone made it to Hove Town Hall on time, even Soprano Bob Turner who likes to make a late entrance most of the time,
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The Maestro Returns The weekend of 19th-21st of February saw eminent conductor and cornet maestro John Hudson visit the band from Norway. John kindly agreed to take the band through our next contest piece which is to be chosen from Darol Barrys Prelude and Jubilate or Goff Richards Hollywood. Snow the previous week had meant
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