10,000 expected to attend All Ireland Pipe Band Championships in Derry in July - video Dailymotion

10,000 expected to attend All Ireland Pipe Band Championships in Derry in July

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00:00So Deputy First Minister will you join with me in welcoming the All-Ireland

00:04Pipe Band Championships to Everton this summer and in recognising the positive

00:08social, cultural and economic benefits that our marching band scene bring here

00:13in Northern Ireland. Thank you, yes absolutely fantastic that the Everton

00:18site will be hosting this spectacular display in terms of the Pipe Band

00:23Championships. It is estimated that there will be in around 10,000 there so I would

00:29really appeal if you're around the area do travel there it's going to be a

00:33really really good day and I know the folks up in the Northwest are really

00:37looking forward to it. The First Minister and myself had the opportunity to

00:39formally launch that as well so really looking forward to that and indeed it

00:45does play into the incredible depth and richness that we have here in our

00:49marching band scene. I was really pleased that my colleague Gordon Lyons was able

00:53to increase that fund but as the member knows there is much more demand than what

00:58has been supplied so this year of course we are looking forward to trying to

01:01support our marching band scene again. It's not just in terms of the value that

01:06that gives to the members of the bands, the music that they play but it's also

01:09that value that they give back in terms of the amount of money that the band

01:13scene generates within and across the years as well and it is important that we

01:17do recognise the value of that and we're very very proud of our marching band

01:22scene here in Northern Ireland.