Each contest has their own prize schedule. Bands who compete in at least six of the village contests are then eligible to win a Central Area Prize. A band’s position at the local contests they have entered determines their position in the Central Area results.
The results may be published by individual contests but will remain unconfirmed until 2pm on the Saturday following Whit Friday, when they will be published here and on the 4barsrest website. Final Confirmed Area Results will not be published before the Sunday following the competition. We understand how important these results are to bands, but please allow us the time to validate them, and do not attempt to contact officials or adjudicators – they have a job to do!
Contest and Central Area Results
Thank you for coming to the 2025 Contest. We had 110 bands in total. And the overall winner was Brighouse and Rastrick, once again.
Thank you to everyone who attended the contests in 2024. We had a total of 117 bands this year. Congratulations to Brighouse and Rastrick for scoring a full set of firsts this year!
For the 2023 Whit Friday contests we had a glorious sunny day with 136 bands taking part. The overall winnners were: