Ceremonial Band of the Waterloo Regional Police

The Ceremonial Band of the Waterloo Regional Police is a Canadian police band based in Waterloo, Ontario. It was founded in 1977 when the WRPS was four years old.[1] Since 2010, the band has partnered with local high schools and post-secondary institutions in the Waterloo-Oxford area.[2] It is currently the only military-style brass and reed band that is attached to a Canadian police service.[3]

Being an organizational band for the community, it participates in local community functions and Parades, as well as travels outaide the region to attend musical tattoos and concerts. It also takes responsibility for providing musical accompaniment for the ceremonial functions of the WRPS, including memorials and funerals of fallen police officers, award ceremonies and ceremonial inspections.[4] Aside from the actual 70 member band, it also contains an 8 member colour guard and a 4 member drumline.[5]

The types of events the band performs at include the following examples:

Notable members
gollark: This REALLY should not be required and I don't know why it is.
gollark: ++magic reload_ext irc_link
gollark: It seems to be a server/power/network failure.
gollark: <@402456897812168705> I know, the systems have notified me of this.
gollark: Yes.

References
  1. "Band". www.wrps.on.ca. December 20, 2017.
  2. "W-O Music Welcomes the Waterloo Regional Police Band (WO Music)". teachers.wrdsb.ca.
  3. "Ceremonial Band of the Waterloo Regional Police Service | The Registry Theatre". www.registrytheatre.com.
  4. "Waterloo Regional Police Service, Cambridge - Headquarters, Ceremonial Band of the Waterloo Regional Police Service". regionofwaterloo.cioc.ca.
  5. Hill, Valerie (November 24, 2017). "Conductor swings his baton for big bands with big sounds". TheRecord.com.
  6. "Remembrance Day 2018: What's happening in Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo - Kitchener | Globalnews.ca". globalnews.ca.
  7. "PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com.
  8. "Kitchener Waterloo Oktoberfest 2016 festguide". Issuu.
  9. "Leadership Blog".
  10. "What the public didn't see at this year's Kitchener Santa Claus Parade". November 22, 2018.
  11. Smith, Brian J. (April 9, 2015). "My Little Town". AuthorHouse – via Google Books.
  12. "Bio". Robin Reid Music.
  13. "Don McDougall: Drums". www.toppocket.ca.
  14. "Biography". donmcdougall.ca.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.