{"id":922,"date":"2025-12-01T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/?p=922"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:51:51","slug":"scottish-concert-band-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/2025\/12\/01\/scottish-concert-band-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Concert Band Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Senior Wind Band, and their conductor, Ms Macfarlane, on being awarded Gold Plus for their performance at the regional round of the Scottish Concert Band Festival last week!<\/p>\n<p>Comments from the adjudicators included, &#8220;Overall, the piece had excellent dynamics with well observed articulations&#8221; and &#8220;What a fine performance of a very difficult piece! Bravo, Band!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"929\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/2025\/12\/01\/scottish-concert-band-festival-2\/thumbnail_img_3085\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01115139\/thumbnail_IMG_3085.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,462\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1764589513&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"thumbnail_IMG_3085\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01115139\/thumbnail_IMG_3085-300x110.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01115139\/thumbnail_IMG_3085-1024x375.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-929\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01115139\/thumbnail_IMG_3085-1024x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01115139\/thumbnail_IMG_3085-1024x375.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01115139\/thumbnail_IMG_3085-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01115139\/thumbnail_IMG_3085-768x282.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01115139\/thumbnail_IMG_3085.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"923\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/2025\/12\/01\/scottish-concert-band-festival-2\/image-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01114029\/Image-e1764589275402.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1110,596\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01114029\/Image-e1764589275402-300x161.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01114029\/Image-e1764589275402-1024x550.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-923 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01114029\/Image-e1764589275402-1024x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01114029\/Image-e1764589275402-1024x550.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01114029\/Image-e1764589275402-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01114029\/Image-e1764589275402-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacmusic2017\/uploads\/sites\/4234\/2025\/12\/01114029\/Image-e1764589275402.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Senior Wind Band, and their conductor, Ms Macfarlane, on being awarded Gold Plus for their performance at the regional round of the Scottish Concert Band Festival last week! Comments from the adjudicators included, &#8220;Overall, the piece had excellent dynamics with well observed articulations&#8221; and &#8220;What a fine performance of a very difficult &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/2025\/12\/01\/scottish-concert-band-festival-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scottish Concert Band Festival<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacmusic2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}