Strange competition awards
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:57 pm
I have just returned from the south of Ireland band championships in Clonakilty. This is more of a festival than a competition but a lot of bands enter and take it seriously the rules are more relaxed than the national championships. You prepare a 15 minute performance of your own choice with no test piece. It is a good weekend away with street performances and night time jam sessions all good fun.
We came away with the strangest award catergory I have ever heard off. Nice big silver cup for "the best arrangement" is this an award for having good taste or purchasing power as the piece was a commercial arrangement not an arrangement by a member or musical director.
The other infamous award that I have seen at marching band competitions is the "best dressed/uniform/turned out" we call it the booby prize you know your band sucked if you go home with that one.
Does anybody have similar or better weirder examples?
We came away with the strangest award catergory I have ever heard off. Nice big silver cup for "the best arrangement" is this an award for having good taste or purchasing power as the piece was a commercial arrangement not an arrangement by a member or musical director.
The other infamous award that I have seen at marching band competitions is the "best dressed/uniform/turned out" we call it the booby prize you know your band sucked if you go home with that one.
Does anybody have similar or better weirder examples?