The winning group, Brassed Off, from left, Meadow Bodkin-Allen, Lauren Bailey, Stacey Adams and Jack O'Connell, with adjudicator Robert Ibell. A Southland Girls’ High School group, Brassed Off, won the NZ Chamber Music Southland region competition in Invercargill this week. Southland Girls’ head of music Peter De Blois said the group now had two weeks to fundraise for the finals. The group was “completely blown away when the judge announced the win”, De Blois said. Brassed Off was formed earlier this year and is made up of three students from Southland Girls’ and a student from Southland Boys’ High who all knew each other through the Invercargill Brass Artillery.

Source: Stuff June 11, 2021 02:26 UTC