Whit Friday - March on stand

[blue juice]

Does the march on the stand have to be an official march or could a band play an unpublished arrangement?

[backrow]

Each contest sets it's own rules and these do vary as regards number of players etc but all require the contest march to be a published march. You can play what you want on the road though.

[P_S_Price]

Does the march on the stand have to be an official march or could a band play an unpublished arrangement?

It depends on the rules of the individual contest. The Delph Contest Rules do state that the March must be published :

"...Bands may play any published march they wish...."

http://delph-whit-friday.co.uk/index...d=78&Itemid=76

[Mephi]

Should be published marches, the rules on that have been around for a long time at most contests.

[Will the Sec]

Does a march on Score Exchange count as being published?

[MoominDave]

Didn't the TMP band play a march that had been specially written for them by Darrol Barry when they competed a few years back? I'm fairly sure that wasn't published beforehand.

And aren't there bands that have played their own unpublished 'signature' marches? Besses or Dyke maybe?

University of Warwick played a newly-written march by the university's director of music, Colin Touchin ("The Heavenly Bears March" I think was the title) a few years back - I'm sure that was unpublished, and we had no trouble anywhere in Saddleworth.