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Free concerts are held on the DEAL MEMORIAL BANDSTAND every Sunday afternoon from May until September. The annual visit of the Royal Marines Band, Portsmouth attracts an audience in excess of 4,000 people. The bandstand was built to honour the memory of eleven young Royal Marines musicians murdered by the IRA on 22nd September 1989. Click to download the programme of events in Acrobat format. See also THIS PAGE
The ex-Royal Marines Band site, run by Richard Valentine from New York. Many interesting pages including ‘Buddie Search’, New books, etc. The site is dedicated to the memory of Sir Vivian Dunn. All ex Royal Marines musicians should visit this site, you will not be disappointed.
The magazine of the Royal Marines Band Service where you can find a list of where the bands are playing, articles from the magazine and lots more.
The Deal Festival of Music and the Arts (formerly called the Deal Summer Music Festival) have a series of concerts in Deal and Sandwich annually in July. Visit their web site for more information.
To see pictures of Deal ‘now and then’ take a look at www.eastkent.freeuk.com. Lot of pictures of the old barracks.
Walt Bettonvil (Netherlands), besides being a great lover of military music, is a collector of military bands in miniature. He is a member of the IMMS Holland and invites you to visit his website at www.waltbet.demon.nl
A site for all things appertaining to military bands can be found at www.worldmilitarybands.com - particularly good at musical jokes - about 30 pages of them! Definitely worth a look.
If your interest is mainly in Army Bands you may like to see the catalogue of Droit who have been recording Army bands for many years..
A Royal Marines site for the Signals Branch has some amusing video clips and also some Royal Marines Band sound bites but is mainly about their re-unions.
The HMS Gambia Association invite you to look at the web site at www.hmsgambia.com
The Deal Memorial Bandstand has concert every Sunday from May to September plus two Wednesday ‘Evenings of Swing’. To see the full list of concerts see this page on our web site. |
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