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Re: Whit marches

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Whit marches
From: BigChap27@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 12:25:31 EDT
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In a message dated 02/06/99 13:39:28 GMT Daylight Time, 
morans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< Thanks for your explanation re Whit Marches.
 Do these marches take the form of a street march or are they choreographed
 or diagram marches? >>
Johnboy,
Thanks for the email. The march aspect of the contest is a street march or in 
Cantium's case a street ramble! That part is judged and prizes awarded. There 
is then a second static march played in a square/outside a pub or similar 
which is also adjudicated. Certain bands go, I understand, to try and win the 
marching aspect but most concentrate on the static march. Other concentrate 
on alcohol consumption. It is to Cantium Brass's credit that while the 
regular members concentrated on the playing, the concentration of the guest 
players wavered onto the alcohol from time to time. There is a book on the 
history of the event called 'Hail Smiling Morn' by Alec Greenhalgh which can 
sometimes be obtained online from Amazon Books. 


Martyn Pattinson
Bedrock Brass


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