Скачать или смотреть BIYB Christmas Concerts 2023 - Shantyland

The Brentwood Imperial Youth Band puts on a series of concerts at the beginning of December each year to raise funds to pay our expenses for the coming year. The first part of the concerts concluded with Shantyland following on from the popularity of "Fisherman's Friends', a group which came together in Port Isaac in Cornwall, and went on to success in the charts and two films.

The Band is a registered charity and is 100% self funded thanks to our fundraising activities and kind donations. We aim to encourage and train young musicians to develop both mentally and physically for the demands of musical performance. We teach them to play music and march.

We are proud to take an open door approach and therefore welcome young people of any ability. No experience needed, no instrument required. Only the desire to learn. Members of our band also learn essential life skills that can help them out in later life. We give young people the confidence to succeed in anything they want. We believe having fun is at the very heart of what we do. We bring joy to young people and provide them with a real sense of achievement and fulfilment.

There are over 75 musicians on stage which together with our Drum Corps gave a total of 101 performers ranging in age from just 10 years old and with an average age of 14.