The Co carries Scottish hopes at Saturday’s Open Championships

Best wishes to Scotland’s sole representative in Saturday’s British Open Brass Band Championships at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham.

the cooperation band will be competing against 18 other bands from the UK, as well as from Belgium and Australia, playing the set test piece Music of the Spheres by Philip Sparke who celebrates his 75th birthday this year.

The contest will be adjudicated by Martyn Brabbins, Arsene Duc and David Hirst.

Tickets for the event can be purchased here.

the cooperation band is holding an open rehearsal ahead of its participation in the championships at the Govan and Linthouse Parish Church, 390 Linthouse Road, Glasgow G51 4JH, on Wednesday starting at 7.30pm and conducted by principal conductor Katrina Marzella-Wheeler. Everyone is welcome!

You can register your attendance here.

The full list of competing bands is:

Aldbourne (Glyn Williams)

Amersham (Paul Fisher)

Black Dyke (Prof Nicholas Childs)

Brass Band Willebroek (Frans Violet)

Brighouse and Rastrick (David King)

Carlton Main Frickley Colliery (Glenn van Looy)

Cory (Philip Harper)

Ever Ready (David Morton)

Flowers (Paul Holland)

Fodens (Russell Gray)

Grimethorpe Colliery (Allan Withington)

Hammonds (Morgan Griffiths)

Hepworth (Ryan Watkins)

KNDS Fairey (Philip Chalk)

Leyland (Daniel Brooks)

Milnrow (Christopher Binns)

Sydney City Brass (Jason Katsikaris)

the cooperation band (Katrina Marzella-Wheeler)

Tredegar (Ian Porthouse)