Saturday 05 July, 2008
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Saturday 05 July, 2008
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Hahndorf Town Band 80th Year Celebration 2006-05-13
After the morning march the five bands, Hahndorf, K&N, Enfield, Salisbury (all brass bands) and Unley (concert band)
contested for top prize for entertainment in the day.
There was one Open A grade band, two Open B grade bands and 2 Open C grade bands.
A very good twist was given to make the contest fair. The adjudicator, Bill, was to mark each band in their respective grades then to the final score he was to add 20 points for the C grade, 10 points for the B grade, and the A grade would remain at "scratch". Entertainment was 20 percent of the score, while normal musicianship, program etc was 80 percent of the score.
Without going into lots of detail this particular adjudicator always wants to be made to laugh, giggle, cry, whatever and whenever he listens to musical groups critically. Those that make him do that the most will usually always win. The band that won this time, made the adjudicator outburst several times in laughter, though the whole event and all the bands played good programs and tried hard to entertain.
Dr. Kevin Cameron with Bill.
Kevin was the host Bandmaster and was responsible with his Hahndorf Town Band in organising the whole weekend of events. Kevin also conducts the Unley Concert Band and did so in the competition as well as Compering the competition, along with stand-up comedy relief. Great job, DR. C!
In his "real" life Dr. Cameron is Director of Music at Pembroke School in Adelaide. He also finds time to adjudicate, locally and nationally and consult in other musical areas as well as being a new dad to Louisa Andrea and husband to his terrific and long-suffering wife, Claire!
Dr. Kevin Cameron, Bruce Raymond and Bill.
Bruce Raymond is the Bandmaster of the Kensington and Norwood (K&N), band. They are and Open A Grade brassband with Australian National Championships to their name and are the perennial State Championship of South Australia for 12 years running. They're really excellent and Bruce does a great job...but this adjudicator didn
't think they were going to pull out the win this day. Unley and Hahndorf band's gave them a real run for their money...or is that trophy...or trophy and money! But they did, indeed! A brilliant programme of entertainment and their normal excellent playing.
All in all, a fun day of music listening and entertainment. Kudo's again to Kevin Cameron and the Hahndorf Town Band for a stellar event. Bravo!
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