{"id":85,"date":"2022-05-26T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2022-05-26T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:48:00","slug":"trophy-haul-for-mk-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Trophy haul for MK Brass"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure\n          class=\"\n            sqs-block-image-figure\n            image-block-outer-wrapper\n            image-block-v2\n            design-layout-card\n            combination-animation-site-default\n            individual-animation-site-default\n            individual-text-animation-site-default\n            image-position-right\n            \n          \"\n          data-scrolled\n          data-test=\"image-block-v2-outer-wrapper\"\n      ><\/p>\n<div class=\"intrinsic\">\n<div\n          \n              class=\"\n                \n                image-inset\"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              data-description=\"\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n                content-fit\n              \n            \" style=\"\n              position: relative;\n              overflow: hidden;-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(white, black);\n              \n            \"><\/p>\n<p>              <img data-stretch=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass\" data-image=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass\" data-image-dimensions=\"744x731\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Back in October, we competed at the Bolsover Brass Festival contest. We won the 1st Section and our Flugelhorn player, Dave Lewis, also won the best soloist prize for his spine-tingling playing during 'Lament' from Peter Meechan's 'Macbeth'.\" data-load=\"false\" elementtiming=\"system-image-block\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass\" width=\"744\" height=\"731\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 100vw\" style=\"display:block;object-fit: contain;\" onload=\"this.classList.add(&quot;loaded&quot;)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass?format=100w 100w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass?format=300w 300w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass?format=500w 500w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass?format=750w 750w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass?format=1000w 1000w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass?format=1500w 1500w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6210e1f4ca048c354695d09d\/c91a7e4d-d24a-484b-94b2-fa69a8a18640\/Trophy+haul+for+MK+Brass?format=2500w 2500w\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-loader=\"sqs\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-overlay\" style=\"overflow: hidden;-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(white, black);\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-card-wrapper\" data-width-ratio>\n<div class=\"image-card sqs-dynamic-text-container\">\n<div class=\"image-title-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-title sqs-dynamic-text\"\n                \n  \n><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The band have picked up quite a selection of trophies since contesting started again last autumn.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Back in October, we competed at the Bolsover Brass Festival contest. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-subtitle-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-subtitle sqs-dynamic-text\"\n                \n  \n><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We won the 1st Section and our Flugelhorn player, Dave Lewis, also won the best soloist prize for his spine-tingling playing during &#8216;Lament&#8217; from Peter Meechan&#8217;s &#8216;Macbeth&#8217;. And to top it off, we also won the prize for the best percussion section. Quite a day!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">At the end of October, we then moved on to Wychavon Contest, finishing a very credible 3rd place out of 9 bands competing in the 1st Section.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The competitions started again in March with us winning the MK Festival on Saturday 12 March.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We competed in the London and Southern Counties 1st Section competition the following week, playing Spectrum. 15 bands competed and we finished in 3rd position, narrowly missing out on an invitation to the National Finals. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The band have picked up quite a selection of trophies since contesting started again last autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonkeynesbrass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}