The band attended Downshire Guiding Star's annual parade last Friday night and it turned out to be one of the biggest and best of the year with 73 bands in attendance. Good to see a large number of Melody bands on show including East Belfast UVF, Pride of the Raven, Mourne, Ballymacarrett, Skeogh and Ballylesson all in attendance and hopefully this will be repeated at a number of parades next year. Band paraded with a full colour party, 10 drummers and 24 fluters. 'Randy' Andy Carlise who also plays Janice Battersbey's boyfriend in Coronation Street was our drum major for the night. Always a good crowd up the street in Banbridge and the band was going extremely well. Decided on a bit of counter marching at the Bridge which went down well. The lads were dead chuffed to win five 1sts including Best Overall Band considering the competition on show. I've printed the full results from the paper below.
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