The National Championships for field bands will take place in Johannesburg – South Africa on 2nd and 3rd October. This year the event has moved to a new venue: the Athletic Stadium in Johannesburg. The Athletic Stadium is astate-of-the-art, high-tec multifunctional stadium. It is situated in Doornfontein, to the east of the city centre of [...]
"What can we expect from a Field Band and how can we make sure that a South-African Field Band can distinguish itself from other marching band and drum corps in an original way? This was one of the important prerequisites taken into consideration during the preparation of the national workshop of the Field Band Foundation [...]
The Norwegian Band Federation (NMF) invited the FBF to tour western Norway and perform at the Stavanger Spilleglede Festival. On our way there we stopped in Amsterdam and travelled down to Zwevegem, in Flanders to work with VLAMO, the Flemish amateur music organisation. They trained our FBF members in show design and choreography. In fact [...]
Three experts from the Flemish music organisation Vlamo will share their knowledge with sixty band leaders of the Field Band Foundation. From Sunday 9th December to Saturday 15th December 2007, a ‘Teach the Teacher’ workshop will take place in the surroundings of the BAT Community Centre in Durban – South Africa. The BAT Centre is [...]
Now that DCI is living it’s finest week of the year, it might be time for everyone in the Marching Music activity to look at where we come from. Wasn’t Drum & Bugle Corps a community activity in the past where the sole purpose was to keep kids off the streets? We should be proud [...]
During the tour through South-Africa the Vlamo (Belgium) delegation visited four field bands. In part 7, Geert Vanmaeckelberghe highlights the field band of Stellenbosch. Translation: Hans Kloppert. "The field band of Witbank (see part 1) was a young field band with children who had only two years ago met with the world of show, music [...]
"For more than seven years, the Norges Musikkorps Forbund (NMF) and the Fredskorpset (FK) have supported the Field Band Foundation. The exchange programme that was realised is of great importance to the further development of various field bands in South Africa." Written by Geert Vanmackelberghe. Translation: Hans Kloppert. "Several children are offered an opportunity to [...]
"Four to six million people in South-Africa live on the edge of society: "At the borderline". These people are housed living in bad conditions in hovels with corrugated iron roofs in the townships. The Field Band Foundation has set its goals for the last ten years for the children of these neighbourhoods to give them [...]
In part 4 of the ‘At the Borderline’ series we will get to know more about the South African Field Band from Soweto and we will feature the longtime exchange programme that the Field Band Foundation has with the Norwegian Musikkorps Verbond (NMF) and Pioneer drum & bugle corps from Milwaukee (USA). Part 4 also [...]
From March 16th through March 26th a delegation of Vlamo (Belgium) toured through South-Africa. In this series – of which we are presenting part 3 today – we learn more about the tasks of the National Coordinator and get to know what motivates some of the sponsors to support the Field Band Foundation. Written by [...]
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