TOWNELEY High School brass band's amazing success story continued this week as they swept the board at Burnley Festival.

The talented youngsters followed up their recent fifth place in the National Youth Brass Band Championship with a 100 per cent record in the local competition.

Towneley came top in four classes: open, small ensemble, under 18 large ensemble and under 21 large ensemble, for which they gave a performance so good that the judge awarded it the highest mark she had ever given.

Musical director Dave Warren told the Citizen: "In the open section, the band, with an average age of 14, were competing against ensembles which contained adults.

"Yet their musicianship and ever growing confidence saw them through with convincing victories.

"In the under 21 section, the performance of Lomond Hills Overture, by the Scottish composer Bruce Fraser, gained the highest marks of the evening. The adjudicator was so impressed that this was the highest mark she had ever given in a music festival."

In the small ensemble class, the band were represented by the senior quartet: Stephanie Moss and Paul Atherton on cornet, Nicola Bulcock on tenor horn, and Nicola Griffin on euphonium.

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