{"id":652042,"date":"2026-06-22T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652042\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:05:11","slug":"brass-bands-fill-the-streets-of-bugle-for-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652042\/","title":{"rendered":"Brass bands fill the streets of Bugle for competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of brass band members marched and played through a village&#8217;s streets to battle for silverware at a competition&#8217;s 100th edition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The West of England Bandsmen&#8217;s Festival, also known as the Bugle Band Contest, was held in Cornwall on Saturday with bands from across the South West and other parts of the country participating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the day, the bands headed down from Roche Road to Molinnis Road, where a stage was set up, before an evening march to the village square rounded off the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were seven categories of competition with the top level Championship Section won by Northamptonshire-based GUS Band while St Dennis cornet musician Luke Barker won best player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of brass band members marched and played through a village&#8217;s streets to battle for silverware at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}