Increase in entries for this year’s Scottish Championships

Fifty-nine bands will be taking to the stage of Perth Concert Hall over the weekend of 7/8 March to participate in the 2026 Scottish Brass Band Championships.

This regional qualifying contest for the finals of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain will feature seven more competing bands than last year.

On the Saturday, the Third, Second and First sections will be held in that order while on the next day, the Fourth section bands will take to the stage ahead of five entries in the non-contesting Section 4b and then the Championship section.

Admission to this veritable feast of brass music is £16.50 / £12.50, payable on the day in the foyer of the Perth Concert Hall or from the theatre online ticket office.

The top two bands in each section will receive an invitation to compete for the title of 2026 National Champions later in the year.

This is the full line-up of participating bands:

Saturday 7 March, Perth Concert Hall

Section 3  (commencing at 9.30am)

Test piece: Three Haworth Impressions (Gordon Langford)

Adjudicators: Chris King and John Doyle

Arbroath & Carnoustie (Neill McDonald)

Brass Sounds Inverclyde (Caroline Tennant)

Buckhaven & Methil Miners (Steven Craig)

Kilmarnock Concert Brass (Rebecca Wilson Paterson)

Langholm Town (Chris Bradley)

Peebles Burgh Silver (David McAuley)

Selkirk Silver (Stuart Black)

St David’s Brass (John A Dickson)

St Ronan’s Silver (Michael Marzella)

Stranraer Brass (Angela Miller)

Section 2

Test piece: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Philip Harper)

Adjudicators: Alan Duguid and Phillip Littlemore

Annan Town (Lewis Wilkinson)

Broxburn & Livingston (Stephen Malcolm)

Campbeltown Brass (Owen Pickering)

Clackmannan District (Paul Drury)

Croy Silver (Kenneth Blackwood)

Highland Brass (Bruce Wallace)

Irvine & Dreghorn (Joshua Parkhill)

Johnstone (Raymond Tennant)

Renfrew Burgh (Mark Good)

Shotts St Patrick’s (Charlie Farren)

Tullis Russell Mills (John-Luke Harris)

Section 1

Test piece: Variations on 'Was Lebet' (Andrew Wainwright)

Adjudicators: Chris King and John Doyle

Bathgate (Craig Anderson)

Dalkeith & Monktonhall (James Chamberlain)

Dunaskin Doon (Chris Bradley)

Jedforest Instrumental (Philip Rosier)

Kirkintilloch Kelvin Brass (Mareika Gray)

Lochgelly (Chris Shanks)

Newmains & District (Paul McKelvie OBE)

Newmilns & Galston (Alan Friel)

Perthshire Brass (Willie McMullan)

Unite Scotland Kinneil (Allan Ramsay)

Sunday 8 March, Perth Concert Hall

Section 4  (commencing at 9.30am)

Test piece: Indian Summer (Eric Ball)

Adjudicators: Alan Duguid and Phillip Littlemore

Barrhead Burgh (Alan Friel)

Bon-Accord B (Harry Marshall)

Coalburn Intermediate (Gareth Bowman)

Dundee Instrumental (Bob McDonald)

Dunfermline City Brass (Paul Dickens)

Dysart Colliery Silver (Robert Fraser)

Hawick Saxhorn (Greig Murray)

Irvine & Dreghorn Community Brass (John Boax)

Kirkton Brass Bathgate (Paul McKelvie OBE)

MacTaggart Scott Loanhead (Amy Paterson)

Penicuik Silver (Jess Purbrick)

Turriff Silver (Matt Bailey)

Whitburn Heartlands (Peter Holmes)

Section 4b (non-competing)

Adjudicator: Joshua Parkhill

Brass Central Strathearn (Tom Smith)

Broxburn & Livingston Future (Jim Bone)

Clackmannan District Youth & Development (Luci Lamb)

Forfar Instrumental (Donald Innes)

Montrose Town (Rosie Martin)

Championship Section

Test piece: Elgar Variations (Martin Ellerby)

Adjudicators: Chris King and John Doyle

Bon-Accord Silver (Adam Cooke)

Bo’ness & Carriden (Phil Chalk)

Coalburn Silver (Gareth Bowman)

Dalmellington (Erik Janssen)

Granite City Brass (Raymond Tennant)

Kingdom Brass (Eoin Tonner)

Newtongrange Silver (Anne Crookston)

the cooperation band (Dr Glenn Van Looy)

The Kirkintilloch Band (Chris Binns)

Whitburn (Florent Didier)