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  • Entries Now Open For Our February Contest

    Entries are now open to our annual area test piece contest at the Post Mill Centre on 15th and 16th February. For further information, please see our events page.

    To keep within the venues fire regulations, we need to limit our sections to a maximum of ten bands. Please note that the first and second sections were fully subscribed very quickly last year.

  • NEMBBA Officers 2024/25

    At our recent AGM, the following officers were re-elected for the forthcoming year:

    President Lynden Cooper
    Chairman Melanie Cooper
    Vice-Chairman Brian Draper
    Administration Manager Robert Stansfield
    Assistant Administration Manager Kevin Holdgate
    Treasurer Kevin Holdgate
    Trophy Officer Jo Priestley

    The meeting elected our retiring president and treasurer, Marie Smith, and Stan Lippeatt as life vice-presidents.

    The life vice-presidents of NEMBBA are Michael Allcock, Judith Beckett, Lynden Cooper, Melanie Cooper, Brian Draper, Brian Eggleshaw, Stan Lippeatt, Marie Smith, and Sharon Stansfield.

    The AGM appointed two NEMBBA delegates to the Midlands Regional Committee:
    Robert Stansfield
    Michael Allcock

    The NEMBBA officials on the Midlands Regional Committee are:
    Ann Street (Midlands Region Minutes Secretary)
    Roger Poulter (Midlands Region Trophy Officer)

  • Roll of Honour

    Our AGM yesterday agreed to add John Slater and Haydn Cooper to our Roll of Honour.

    John Slater served local bands (principally Matlock Band) as a player and conductor for over 70 years and was our chairman (and chairman of the Midlands Area Committee) for over 40 years, running all our meetings and officiating at most of our contests.

    Haydn Cooper was a member of Huthwaite Silver Prize Band for over 80 years, including 50 years as their musical director, and received a diploma of honour from the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 2001 in recognition of his work teaching hundreds of children to play brass and woodwind instruments.

  • Percussion Provided

    A list of the percussion we will be providing for our November contest has been emailed to all the band secretaries. A copy may be found on our documents page.

  • Draw and Timings For Our November Contest

    I have now issued the draw and estimated timings to all the bands who have entered our contest on 3rd November in The Whitworth, Darley Dale (please do not put your draw or test piece on social media).

    If your band does not receive my email, please let me know and I will resend it.

    The estimated timings for the day are:

    9:30 a.m. Training Bands (1 band)

    9:55 a.m. Unregistered Bands (1 band)

    10:20 a.m. 4th Section (2 bands)

    11:00 a.m. Results (Training & Unregistered Band and 4th Section)

    11:15 a.m. 3rd Section (5 bands)

    12:50 p.m. Results (3rd Section & Lunch)

    1:30 p.m. 2nd Section (6 bands)

    3:20 p.m. Results (2nd Section)

    4:00 p.m. 1st Section: (5 bands)

    5:45 p.m. Championship Section: (1 band)

    6:15 p.m. Results (1st & Championship Sections)