Results: Borders Entertainment Contest 2016
Monday 7 November 2016
Bathgate Band president Gerry Duggan, centre, with adjudicators Michael Fowles and Mareika Gray. (Image courtesy of Galashiels Town Band).
CELEBRATIONS were in order for the Bathgate Band after it triumphed at the 2016 Borders Entertainment Contest.
Musical Director Anne Crookston guided the West Lothian band to victory at the competition at the Borders College in Galashiels on Saturday, November 5 after impressing adjudicators Michael Fowles and Mareika Gray.
Bathgate's programme found favour with both judges, receiving a unanimous first placing ahead of Jedforest Instrumental, led by Phil Rosier, in second and Shotts St Patrick's, wth Chris Mansfield at the helm, in third.
The winning programme saw Bathgate open with Jonathan Bates’ arrangement of Samuel R Hazo’s Olympiada before solo trombone Garry Kennedy performed Adrian Drover’s arrangement of My Funny Valentine. Paul Lovatt-Cooper’s You’ve Been Warned preceeded the band’s finale, David Stowell’s arrangement of the traditional French Canadian number The Tobique.
Nineteen bands performed at the contest organised by the Scottish Borders Brass Band Association, including a non-competing set from Galashiels Town Band.
Results
| Placing | Band | Conductor | MF | MG | Total | Section | Draw |
| 1 | Bathgate | Anne Crookston | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Jedforest Instrumental | Phil Rosier | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | Shotts St Patrick's | Chris Mansfield | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 4 | Langholm Town | Chris Shanks | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | St Ronan's Silver | Alan Fernie | 6 | 5 | 11 | 2 |
10 |
| 6 | Lochgelly | Paul McKelvie OBE | 7 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Renfrew Burgh | Mark Good | 8 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 11 |
| 8 | Broxburn and Livingston | Chris Shanks | 5 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | Penicuik Silver | Stuart Black | 9 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 14 |
| 10 | Annan Town | David Hamilton | 11 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 13 |
| 11 | Hawick Saxhorn | Alan Fernie | 10 | 14 | 24 | 4 | 7 |
| 12 | Tullis Intermediate | Gavin Lindsay | 12 | 13 | 25 | 3 | 16 |
| 13 | Selkirk Silver | Stuart Black | 14 | 11 | 25 | 3 | 18 |
| 14 | Newland Concert Brass | Paul McKelvie OBE | 15 | 12 | 27 | 4 | 3 |
| 15 | MacTaggart Scott Loanhead | Kenny Letham | 13 | 15 | 28 | 3 | 6 |
| 16 | Irvine and Dreghorn | Helen Douthwaite-Teasdale | 16 | 16 | 32 | 2 | 12 |
| 17 | Buckhaven and Methil Miners | David Neil | 17 | 17 | 34 | 3 | 19 |
| 18 | Newmains and District Brass | Peter Holmes | 18 | 18 | 36 | 4 | 17 |
