The Performance Portfolio and Finals Working Party are pleased to announce that the climax of our 2008 summer season will be on Sunday 5th October, 2008, at Butts Park Arena, Coventry. This prestige event will deliver some fantastic performances from the UK’s finest marching bands and drum corps’. Make a date in your diary now!
Performance Portfolio of the British Youth Band Association is pleased to announce three promotions following a great start to the 2008 season at Severn Vale Marching Band Championships, Upton, Worcestershire, on Saturday 7th June, 2008. With immediate effect, the units listed are promoted as follows:- Downsmen Corps from Junior Division to Division 3.
The Federation of Youth Marching Band Organizations, of which BYBA is an active member, has announced that it is moving to a new office address. This move is the first action of a two year development programme funded by the John Ellerman Foundation. Honorary Director of the Federation Jim Vaughan explains “ We approached Trustees […]
Due to the small number of Corps that had registered for the Weston Super Mare contest on Saturday 5th July it has been decided that it is not really viable to run a contest on this date. However, Drum Corps United Kingdom are pleased to announce that on Sunday 6th July, in association with the […]
A number of weeks ago we were advised by our venue, Bedford International Athletics Stadium, of a clash of dates between our contest and an athletics event. We were offered a number of alternatives around the original date, however due to other BYBA contests the only suitable alternative open to us was Saturday 13th September. […]
Dear Friends, Some of you would have heard already about the decision that has recently been taken to withdraw from the up and coming 2008 Festival of Fun and Music. For some this will be a surprise, and for others who have been closer to the detail of transition from Brixham to Hemsby, not so.
The DCE Championships for 2008 are operating under a seeding mechanism that utilizes scores achieved at any DCE Certified Show for the running order of the Preliminary Competition. This means that any Unit that has participated in a DCE Certified Show will have chalked up a score that will in effect enhance their chances of […]
We are pleased to announce that the BYBA Festival of Fun & Music this year will make a welcome return to Hemsby in Norfolk. What at first seemed like a terrible blow, Pontins have sold Wall Park in Devon and can therefore not accommodate us this year, Hemsby the home of the Festival for many […]
Colchester will be holding its 16th contest this year on Sunday 22nd June in the Lower Castle Park, Colchester in Essex, UK. This gives bands taking part in DCE contest on Saturday 21st June a chance to do a double header and save money by taking part at Colchester only 50 minutes by road from […]
Members of a Coventry band formed in July have returned from their first competition with an impressive haul of nine medals. Musicians from The Spirit of Coventry Drum and Bugle Corps struck gold at the British Youth Band Association contest in Leicester. Solo successes included Lizzie Killick, who clinched gold in the brass under-25 section, […]
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