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NAVY NEWS, APRIL 2000
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• FIJI: A member of the Fiji Band performs on the opening night of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Wellington.
• SPECTACULAR: The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines performs with the Scots Guards Band in the new Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand. The back-drop was a full-scale replica of Edinburgh Castle, complete with ramparts!
Marines raise the roof - and £90,000 for good causes ROYAL Marines Bandsmen delighted 15,000 music lovers during three sell-out performances at the Albert Hall and raised over £90,000 for charity in the process.
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The Massed Bands of the Royal Marines played to a capacity audience of 5,100 people every night during the annual Mountbatten Festival of Music. Highlights included themes from West End shows, music from the film Schindler's List, traditional Irish dancing and 'The Chosin Few', a tribute to the British and American marines who fought at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea
by the Corps of Drums under Capt Paul Weston. HQRM's C/Sgt Gareth Davies, who has administered the festival for the last ten years, said: "It's difficult to say what people enjoyed the most but the Chosin Few was an incredibly impressive and visual display of stick drill and the Irish dancing was extremely popular." Sargent Cancer Care for Children and over 20 Service charities will benefit.
THE FIRST SEA Lord, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, took a behind-the-scenes look at the Royal Marines School of Music during a recent visit to Portsmouth. After talking to staff and cadets he was given a tour of the School including the workshop where instruments are repaired. Admiral Boyce was somewhat shocked when one of the repairers smashed a brass instrument on a desk, but it was all to prove that almost all dents can be removed in the hands of a craftman.