Youngsters from the Torpoint Sea Cadets Band put on an award-winning display at the National Sea Cadet Band Contest at the Tower of London claiming the title of the second best band in the country, despite only forming a year ago.
Eighteen teenagers from Torpoint Sea Cadet unit, based at HMS Raleigh, represented the South West region of the UK at the National Marching Band Contest held in the moat of the Tower of London earlier this month, having claimed gold at the regional contest a few weeks previously. The band were joined by an additional few cadet musicians from Cornwall and the local area in order to form a ‘massed area band’.
They performed a military musical display of quick marches, slow marches and a ‘drum static’ led by the Torpoint Sea Cadet Unit Corps of Drums, in the grassy moat of the Tower of London under the gaze of judges from Her Majesty’s Royal Marines School of Music, senior Royal Navy officers and VIPs and several hundred spectators and tourists.
Torpoint Sea Cadets is currently recruiting cadets aged between 10 and 17. They meet every week. For more information, see ‘Torpoint Sea Cadets’ on Facebook.