Armidale City Concert Band

  The band enters the West Australian Band Association’s “State Eisteddfod” from time to time and has won ten times out of twelve entries. We are the current West Australian Open A Grade Champions having gained that title at the competition held in June 2012. Currently we have entered for the past six years. From 2007 – 2010 we competed in Division B and won the competition. In 2011 we were runner up in the Open A Grade division, thus ranking us as the number two band in Western Australia. Previous championship wins had been in 1991, 1992, 1995, 1998 and 2002. In 1991 the band also competed in the Band Spectacular, winning Division A. Members have won the prestigious Ray Larner Cup for most outstanding concert band instrumentalist in the WABA Championships. Winners have been Co-principal Clarinet, Tim Neil, (1998), Peter Edwards (piccolo) 2001and Catherine Lane (French Horn) in 2002