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The Performance Portfolio includes a very healthy competition calendar with marching band contests staged nationwide from June to September, with the National Championships in October. The points gained at contests are counted towards a league system, run rather like the Football Association's. The top bands of each division are invited to the annual Finals to decide the National Champions. Away from 'summer season', The "Individuals & Ensembles Showcase" is run in a theatre setting, where individuals and small groups can perform against their peers, based on age groups, irrespective of their unit's Division in the summer season. A "Open National Concert Band Championships" is also run in this period in between seasons, for those units able to command an audience with a full concert programme. New for 2007, is the "On the Road Tour", which will take a small number of BYBA member units out to the public in late July/early August for one week on a tour of Devon of Cornwall. At any BYBA event you are likely to see anything from the traditional Boys' Brigade Bugle Band to a flamboyant American-style Drum Corps complete with flags and rifles in the Colour Guard. |
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