Contest

The Butlin’s Mineworkers Open National Brass Band Festival comes back to Butlin’s Skegness for 2018. Join us for the weekend from Friday 12 January – Monday 15 January. This popular championship has over 100 competing bands and promises to deliver a spectacular weekend of competition and entertainment.

The ‘National’, as it is often referred to, is brass banding’s equivalent of the football league – a first-past-the-post Championship involving some 600 bands in eight ‘Regional’ qualifying heats staged up and down the UK, plus two ‘Finals’ events. The National Brass Band Championships, which have existed since 1945 in their current format, are split […]