Category: Contests
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National Brass Band Championship Finals of Great Britain 2021
Over the weekend of Saturday September 18th and Sunday September 19th, all of us at Eagley Band were really proud to be based at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel down in Cheltenham, having qualified for the 2021 National Brass Band Championship Finals of Great Britain through our excellent North West Area Blackpool result from February 2020 before…
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Its official… we have been promoted to the 1st Section from January 2021.
Our promotion from 3rd to 1st Section is a fabulous reward to all the loyalty of everyone from Lilly right around to Breeny and everyone in between. We couldn’t list all of the players who have been on this Eagley journey and the loyalty is very much appreciated. When Chris Wormald took over as MD at Eagley…
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Promotion To The First Section And Qualification For The 2020 National Brass Band Finals of Great Britain!
As a result of our performance in the Second Section at the North West Area Brass Band Contest Winter Gardens in Blackpool on Sunday afternoon, February 23rd 2020, we at Eagley Band and our MD Chris Wormald were not only awarded Third Place in the contest, a silver trophy and prize money too but we…
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Butlins Contest Weekend 2020
In spite of the stunning victory we all enjoyed at Ripon Contest, our MD Chris Wormald described our performance at Butlins 2020 as “by far the best the band has played in a contest” since he came back to the band in 2016. Internet site Four Bars Rest had already installed Eagley as pre-contest favourites…
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2019 French Open Championships Third Place And 500 Euros!
We have just returned from a fantastic weekend in Amboise, winning 500 Euros at the 2019 French Open Brass Band Championships in Amboise by virtue of finishing Third Place in the Second Section of the contest this weekend. For the past twenty five years the annual French Brass Band Championships have taken place at the…
