Jersey: Brass band through to finals of national competition
'Over the moon'
Jersey Premier Brass competed against 18 other bands in the regional competition.Mr Mildren said "the band managed to keep the control and focus on the contest stage" while performing Friendly Takeover by Oliver Waespi."This win means so much to all of us and I for one am over the moon to be going to the finals in September where we last appeared in 2008 in the first section," he added.The national finals will take place at Cheltenham Racecourse on 13 and 14 September.
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