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Army Band Performs for the Queen
Media Release
13 May
2016
Army Band Performs for the Queen
By special request of the Queen, the
New Zealand Army Band has performed before her and Prince
Philip at Windsor Castle. The band is in London to give
marching displays at the 2016 Royal Windsor Horse Show and
the Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration Pageant.
Band Director of Music Major (MAJ) Graham Hickman said the Queen remembered enjoying the band’s performance at the 2012 Royal Windsor Horse Show, when the New Zealanders were in the United Kingdom for her Diamond Jubilee Pageant, but her schedule this week precluded her attending the show to see them again.
“So she requested a special private performance of our long marching display yesterday morning [Thursday 12 May]. We were escorted up to Windsor Castle and performed on the front lawn, finishing the display just metres from the Queen and Prince Phillip, who were seated under a tree.
“After the performance they both chatted informally with the band for a few minutes. This was an unprecedented highlight for us and the troops were elated by the experience.”
In addition to the horse show
appearances the band is performing a marching display at the
Pageant each evening till Sunday on The Long Walk, just west
of Windsor Castle.
On Saturday and Sunday evenings, after the Pageant, the band’s Dance Band and New Orleans Band will be performing at the Global Village Cast Bar for all the Pageant participants.
The band returns to New Zealand on Monday.
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