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Alvaston Contest

Sat 08 Jul 1899



Format: Test Piece Contest
Test Piece: Donizetti [arr. Round]
Adjudicators: Walter Reynolds
Venue: Alvaston Hotel, Alvaston

Position Band Conductor
1 Bestwood Colliery George Hames
2 Matlock United L. G. Wildgoose
3 Chesterfield Temperance J. G. Wood
4 East Kirkby United Angus Holden
Derby Sax and Tuba W. G. Hales
Derby United Randolph Ryan
Kirkby-in-Ashfield Sam Taylor
Woodville United W. Cowley

1st prize £5 and cornet valued at £9.9s. 2nd prize £3.10s. 3rd prize £2. 4th prize £1.
March contest 1st (£1) Derby United, 2nd (10s.) Bestwood
The bands also played "Lucia di Lammermoor"
Best soprano - Horace Holmes (Matlock.
Best euphonium - Jonathan Holmes (Matlock)
8 bands competed





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