{"id":639072,"date":"2026-04-29T20:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/639072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:27:14","slug":"success-for-manx-youth-band-in-fleetwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/639072\/","title":{"rendered":"Success for Manx Youth Band in Fleetwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/295565-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo credit: Manx Youth Band<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Second-place finish at Brass Bad Contest\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Manx Youth Band has secured a second-place finish at the Fleetwood Brass Band Contest.<\/p>\n<p>The young musicians attended the event on 26 April, at Marine Hall, alongside sister-band Manx Concert Brass.<\/p>\n<p>They competed in the fourth section, under the direction of Ian Clague, delivering a rendition of Andrea Price\u2019s I, Daedalus.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five bands from regions in Scotland, Yorkshire, the Midlands and the North West competed.<\/p>\n<p>Band chairman Stephen Maddocks said: &#8220;This weekend has been a fantastic experience for all involved but to see the Manx Youth Band perform at that level and come away with second place is truly special.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They represented the Island with pride and showed just how much talent and commitment there is among our young musicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The trip to the festival, which returned this year after a 13-year hiatus, was supported by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and the Isle of Man Arts Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Manx Youth Band Second-place finish at Brass Bad Contest The Manx Youth Band has secured a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,525,522,523,524,136,44,526],"class_list":["post-639072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}