Joke Schauvlieghe, who is the Flemish Minister of environment, nature and culture was an invite to the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban South Africa. On this occasion she also visited the Alexandra Field Band in the township Alexandra in Johannesburg. She was [...]
The Field Band Foundations (SA) organized it’s national championships on Friday October 7th and Saturday 8th. Two Vlamo (Vlaamse Amateurmuziekorganisatie www.vlamo.be) representatives were part of the judging team (Best Show Design and Creative Excellence). By their presence at this great event, Vlamo has reinforced their believe into international cohesion between musicians in foreign countries. The [...]
A dusty football pitch on a warm Monday morning 25 miles outside Pretoria is not the place where I expected to find an American-style marching band – but then again, I am quickly learning that anything is possible in this diverse and often inspiring country. With the excavated earth of a diamond mine in the [...]
Since our founding thirteen years ago, the Field Band Foundation (FBF) has grown tremendously into a mature and goal achieving non-profit organisation, whose dream is to dramatically impact the lives of our economically challenged and often misguided youth through cheerful music and dance. With our incredible forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup performances, the FBF gains [...]
‘We are convinced of the complementary character of the Vlamo (www.vlamo.be) support to the Field Band Foundation’, say Maarten Deschacht and Bart Tienpont at their arrival. This is also the main conclusion of the FBF after launching a Vlamo course about show design and percussion at the recently founded FBF Field Band Academy (http://www.fieldband.org.za/read_more.pdf) in [...]
In November we completed the pilot programme for the FBF Academy to see whether the curriculum was well designed and at the correct level. Our research was obviously well done as it went very smoothly and although we learned a lot which will not doubt help a lot next year all worked very well and [...]
The FBF was requested to perform for the Norwegian King and Queen on their recent state visit to South Africa. This was indeed a great honour and after meeting our Chairman Herman Mashaba they watched the national Field band perform together with some young dancers from the Alexandra Field band. It was a unique opportunity [...]
We have just completed the final workshop of the year with 60 tutors being trained by our Norwegian Exchange teachers from the Norwegian Band Federation (http://www.musikkorps.no) and 4 field percussion and show design experts from Vlamo (http://www.vlamo.be) The members had a fantastic time and worked very hard and learned a lot. We were very honoured [...]
More than 60 tutors from Field Bands from all over South Africa will participate to the annual FBF workshop, this time held in Plettenberg Bay. Vlamo sends out again 4 Flemish teacher that will give, in collaboration with a Norwegian (Norwegian Music Federation) and South African (FBF) team an intensive training on new FBF tutors. [...]
The winners of South Africa’s most prestigious business-arts awards were announced at an event held in Newtown. A highlight on the night came with the announcement of the Chairman’s Premier Award which went to the Field Band Foundation and its sponsors. The Field Band Foundation is supported by a raft of business partners. This business-arts [...]
