LAND O\' BURNS RESULTS
Prize - Trophy - Money - Points - Draw - Band
1st Place Knoweview Nursing Home Trophy £3,000.00 95 13 Co-operative Funeral Care
2nd Place James Bryce Memorial Trophy £1,200.00 94 6 Whitburn
3rd Place Antoine Courtois (Paris) Trophy £600.00 90 11 Newmilns & Galston
4th Place Robert Oughton Memorial Trophy £450.00 89 10 Downshire Brass
Best 1st Section Band South Beach Hotel Trophy £350.00 11 Newmilns & Galston
Best 2nd Section Band Anchorage Hotel Trophy £300.00 3 Tullis Russell Mills
Most Entertaining Band David Dale Memorial Trophy £500.00 3 Tullis Russell Mills
Highest Placed Ayrshire Band Scottish Co-op Trophy Newmilns & Galston
Best Instrumentalist South Ayrshire Council Trophy Flugel Whitburn
Best Principal Cornet Phillip McCann Trophy Co-operative Funeral Care
Best Soprano Cornet Eddie Kerr Memorial Trophy Downshire Brass
Best Flugel Horn Dalmellington Junior Band Trophy Whitburn
Best Horn Melvin Bathgate Shield Whitburn
Best Trombone Ritchie Trophy Downshire Brass
Best Euphonium Alan Baird Memorial Trophy Newmilns & Galston
Best Bass Section Jenny Johnstone Memorial Quaich Co-operative Funeral Care
Best Percussion Section Tom Park Memorial Trophy Whitburn
Winners Co-perative Funeralcare, Robert McCorkell receives trophy from Provost Helen Moonie
Land O'Burns Winners Co-operative Funeralcare with Provost Moonie
Entertainment adjudicator Iain Shaw, Organiser Bert Ritchie, Music adjudicator Bryan Allen
Placing - Band - Section - Draw - Score
1 Co-operative Funeral Care Ch. 13 95
2 Whitburn Ch. 6 94
3 Newmilns & Galston 1st 11 90
4 Downshire Brass 1st 10 89
5 Tullis Russell Mills 2nd 3 88
6 Johnstone Silver 1st 12 87
7 Coalburn Silver 1st 9 86
8 Newtongrange Silver 1st 4 85
9 Fishburn Band Ch. 5 84
10 Clackmannan District Brass Ch. 2 83
11 Shotts St. Patrick's Brass 2nd 7 82
12 Irvine & Dreghorn Brass 2nd 1 81
13 Kilmarnock Concert Brass 2nd 8 80
Best 1st Section Band - Newmilns & Galston
Best 2nd Section Band - Tullis Russell Mills
Most Entertaining Band - Tullis Russell Mills
Highest Placed Ayrshire Band - Newmilns & Galston
Best Instrumentalist Flugel - Whitburn
Best Principal Cornet Co-operative Funeral Care
Best Soprano Cornet - Downshire Brass
Best Flugel Horn - Whitburn
Best Horn - Whitburn
Best Trombone - Downshire Brass
Best Euphonium - Newmilns & Galston
Best Bass Section - Co-operative Funeral Care
Best Percussion Section - Whitburn
Note: next years contest in Troon on Saturday 23rd August 2014
Press Release
Dalmellington Band hosted the 19th annual Land O'Burns - Brass in Concert Event in Troon Concert Hall on Saturday 24th August.
13 good brass bands competed for £6,500.00 in prize money and a fantastic array of individual trophies and awards. The event attracted hundreds of people, including players and supporters, to Troon and South Ayrshire this year!
Bryan Allen ( Professional Trumpeter from Glasgow ) was the experienced Music Adjudicator and he commented that the standard was high and he had a difficult task to determine the winners from the top bands.
Iain Shaw, was the Entertainment Adjudicator, deciding on which band, he thought, had best entertained the audience, winning the prize of £500.00 and the bands gave wonderful entertainment this year! ..... we had singers, a pianist and one conductor even played a Sousaphone Tuba, fantastic entertainment!
Michael Dodd, Principal Euphonium with then famous Grimethorpe Colliery Band also held a Brass Workshop at the event and a number of youngsters and older players gained some great tips on technique, breathing control and sound production during the sessions.
South Ayrshire Council gave Dalmellington Band wonderful support again this year and the Brass in Concert Event now pays out the highest prize money in Scotland, attracting the ‘big bands' to the competition.
The full results were:-
1st prize, winning the Knoweview Nursing Home Trophy and £3,000.00 ... Co-operative Funeralcare Band.
2nd prize, winning the James Bryce Memorial Trophy and £1200.00 ... Whitburn Band.
3rd prize, winning the Antoine Courtoise ( Paris ) Trophy and £600.00 ... Newmilns & Galston Band.
4th prize, winning the Robert Oughton Memorial Trophy and £450.00 ... Downshire Band ( from Northern Ireland ).
Best 1st Section Band, winning the South Beach Hotel Trophy and £350.00 ... Newmilns & Galston Band.
Best 2nd Section Band, winning the Anchorage Hotel Trophy and £300.00 ... Tullis Russell Band.
Most Entertaining Band, winning the David Dale Memorial Trophy and £250.00 ... Tullis Russell Band.
Best Ayrshire Band, winning the Co-operative Group Trophy ... Newmilns & Galston Band.
The Individual Awards were:-
Best Instrumentalist, winning the South Ayrshire Council Trophy ... Whitburn Band - Flugel Horn.
Best Principal Cornet, winning the Phillip McCann Trophy ... Co-operative Funeralcare Band.
Best Soprano Cornet, winning the Eddie Kerr Memorial Trophy ... Downshire Brass Band.
Best Flugel Horn, winning the Dalmellington Junior Band Trophy ... Whitburn Band.
Best Tenor Horn, winning the Melvin Bathgate Shield ... Whitburn Band.
Best Trombone, winning the Ritchie Trophy ... Downshire Brass Band.
Best Euphonium, winning the Allan Baird Memorial Trophy ... Newmilns & Galston Band.
Best Bass Section, winning the Jenny Johnstone Memorial Quaich ... Co-operative Funeralcare Band.
Best Percussion Section, winning the Thomas Park Memorial Trophy ... Whitburn Band.
We were delighted to have a number of South Ayrshire Councillors with us during the day, Cllr. Nan McFarlane, Cllr. Peter Convery, Cllr Bill Grant and Cllr. Helen Moonie - Provost of South Ayrshire presented the prizes.
Dalmellington Band would like to thank everyone who helped make this event an outstanding success, particularly the local and national advertisers, sponsors and donors. Dalmellington Band will further develop this most entertaining event in the years ahead and we will continue to attract hundreds of supporters to Troon and South Ayrshire!
Thanks and best wishes - Bert Ritchie, Band President.
