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In this podcast you can hear : Henry Bloom Noble Year 6 Music Club perform The Brooding Brabbag (which they also composed); Georgia Duffus - winner of Girls Solo for 8-9 year olds - sings Monsters accompanied by Judith Christian; Evelyn Ravey-Salamanca - winnere of Girls Solo for 10 - 11 year olds - sings Ride Out The Storm, accompanied by Judith Christian; Samantha Winstanley - winner of the Girls Solo for 14 - 15 year olds - sings She's Like The Swallow, accompanied by Madeline Kelly; Isabella Greaves and River Kelly-Brown, winners of the Girls Duet for 12 - 18 year olds sing Evening Prayer accompanied by Madeline Kelly; Scarlet Brophy, winner of Songs from the Shows for ages 14 - 18 years sings Right Hand Man from Something Rotten followed by Zac Colligon - 2nd and awarded the Centre Stage Trophy for the Best Male Performance in that class; in the Songs by a British Composer class, Jessie Quigley took first place (with 94 marks!) singing Sleep by Gurney, accompanied by Jill Collings; Richard Costain took 2nd place in the same class with 92 marks for Four Nights by Vaughan-Williams; Ruth Tickle took 1st place in the American Art Song class (93 marks!) accompanied by Jill Collings, singing The Red Dress by Ricky Ian Gordon; Class winning piano playing by Arlo Pattinson - Valse op 46 no 2 by Chopin

In this podcast : Platform Seniors Vocal Ensemble with an Abba Medley; Piano Duet Class Winners Jo Callister and Chloe Woolley go Wassailling-By; Manx Voices Ensemble sing Calm The Tempests Of My Heart; winners of the Quartet Class, Blaa, sing their own arrangement of a Manx medley; Winners of the Any Voice Trio class, The Pina4rians sing 'Nevermind The Why and Wherefore' from HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan; one song each from the six qualifiers for this year's Cleveland Medal test: Simon Bampton, Jenny Darbyshire; Matthew Quinn; Jane Corkill; Terry Qualtrough; Neil Taverner

In this podcast you can hear : Adele Harris - So Easy (to fall in love) accompanied by Gareth Moore - Winner of Pop Song Class (Adult) Meadowside Choral Society - A Gaelic Blessing - conducted by Julian Power BEM and accompanied by Aaran Fleet IOM Primary Schools - One Moment in Time - Winners of Anything Goes Class - directed by Katie Lawrence, accompanied by Dave Holland Onchan Silver Band - Musical Director David Karran - Winners of all 5 Brass Band Classes - Concert, Best Soloist, Hymn Tune, March and Most Entertaining - playing Soaring The Heights from their concert performance Onchan Silver Band - Euphonium Soloist Chris Quayle plays Lament from Karl Jenkins Stabat Mater (Chris won Best Soloist for this performance) Neil Taverner - Winner - Oratorio and Sacred Cantata Class - accompanied by Frank Woolley - singing I am the Good Shepherd from The Light of Life by Elgar Class winning pianists Alice Daykin and James Salvador Garvin Xenakis Singers directed by Mrs Ruth Crossley with Goodnight Moon by Eric Whitacre from their winnining performance in the Concert Class for singers up to the age of 18 Callan Rowles sings Pirates in a Boys solo class and Daisy Corkhill Sings a Rainbow in a Girls solo class, both accompanied by Wendy McDowell and both now go forward to the Sheffield Plate final for 2026 Part of Aaran Fleet's winning performance in the Advanced Organ Class - Petite Prelude by Joseph Jongen

In this podcast you can hear : Sheffield Plate finalists Austin Pegg singing Blue Moon, Isla Taggart singing How Lucky You Are and Parker Kissack singing The Jones Boys - all accompanied by Naomi Cole Glenfayba Chorale - Musical Director Debbie Gooding, accompanied by John Riley - 2nd in Concert Class and Winners of Most Entertaining Performance - singing The Bare Necessities Lon Vane Ladies Choir - Winners of Female Choir Class AND Choir Concert Class - Musical Director Christine Bregazzi, accompanied by Marilyn Kissack - singing their test piece - Someone Told The Wild Geese Lon Dhoo Male Voice Choir Musical Director Julian Power BEM, accompanied by Julia Ratcliffe - Winners - Male Voice Choir Class - singing their test piece - Hope Manx Voices - Musical Director Angela Stewart, accompanied by Julie Brew - 2nd in the Choir Concert Class - singing The Light of a Clear Blue Morning IOM Arts Council Community Choir - Musical Director Dr Mandy Griffin, accompanied by David Holland, singing Masquerade - Winners - Mixed Chorals Class Onchan Silver Band A - Winners of Brass Ensemble Class - playing Ruslan and Ludmila Lon Vane Ladies Choir - singing The Waters of Tyne Meadowside Choral Society - Musical Director Julian Power BEM accompanied by Aaran Fleet - singing A Gaelic Blessing by Sir John Rutter

Looking back over the last 20 years of reporting from The Guild - with some winning performances across just a few of the many classes that make this such an entertaining festival.