The British Youth Band Association (BYBA) has announced that the 2010 BYBA National Championships will be held at Crewe Alexandra Stadium in Crewe – Cheshire. The stadium is the home of Coca Cola Football League Two Team, Crewe Alexandra Football Club. At the end of 2009, BYBA’s National Championships Working Party investigated possible new venues […]
Nexus is a new drum corps project from Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom. Formed as an amalgamation of the county’s two drum & bugle corps organisations – Equinox and Distant Thunder – Nexus Drum & Bugle Corps will be taking to the field in BYBA for the first time in 2010. The new organisation is […]
Trinity are proud to announce their 2010 production All or Nothing. Complete success or failure with no intermediate result……. What would you choose in an all or nothing situation? Trinity are also pleased to announce their 2010 Staff Team Music Writer – Melanie TaylorVisual and Colourguard writer – Jason WallacePercussion Writer – Andrew MarkworthVisual Caption […]
Revolution Show Corps from Queensbury, West Yorkshire have just returned from a 5 day tour to Belgium. It’s the Corps 2nd visit in the past two years, this time our base was Ghent in favour of Bruges. 44 crammed on with cases, music, tuck shop and not forgetting the brand new Jupiter Quantum horns! Thursday […]
Earlier this year the BYBA Web Support Team and the Communications Portfolio undertook a detailed analysis of the BYBA Online presence. A summary of this report will be online before the National Conference. As part of the review not only did we look at the design and content of the web site but also how […]
Celebrate the end of the 2009 season in style, open to everyone in the activity, corps, bands, winterguards and interested independents. The BYBA event takes place at Haven Seaview Holiday Park, Weymouth from Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th November 2009. All holiday centre facilities are open and available throughout the day and evening so if […]
This Saturday, at the Upton BYBA competition, saw the commencement of the Kidsgrove Scouts 2009 competitive season with their production “The Heart” Kidsgrove took to the field looking resplendent in their trademark red, white and black colours. What followed was a convincing and assured high quality performance, surprising many in the crowd. Kidsgrove deservedly took […]
On Saturday 18th July, at the Barnsley BYBA competition, the Kidsgrove Scouts 2009 production, “The Heart” had its second public performance. Kidsgrove Scouts took to the field of competition and produced a high quality performance despite the strong winds. They took first place and won the Music Effect, Visual Effect, Ensemble Music, Ensemble Visual, Field […]
Clay Wachholz brings to BYBA a diverse and successful career as a music educator. Mr. Wachholz currently serves as the Director of Bands at Cedarburg High School in Cedarburg Wisconsin. Other teaching positions in the past have included the Director of Bands at the International School of Brussels in Belgium and that of Director of […]
Many of you will have observed the logo which Marching Youth Music (or the Federation) has displayed on our website and others during the whole of July – but what are you doing to maximise this opportunity of being part of a large UK-wide activity? Over the years, Marching Youth Music has raised the profile […]
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