Liverpool carnival day 2016 youth music percussion group (with photos).

Before the carnival (8th July 2016): Getting ready for the BIG day of carnival in Liverpool the youth percission group are all ready but nervious as they will be on the road for more than 2hrs playing it will be the longest they have done. All the drums have been tuned and music workers are planning out the days activities. Everyone feeling positive, hope all goes well, please NO rian the weather forecast is not looking good.

Carnival day: (9th July 2016) Its been rianing since 6.00am  it is now 10.00am still raining youth percussion group and 800 people all in costume ready to do the carnival line up, could this be the first year ever we have to cancell ? 11.30 OMG the rian has stopped, EVERYBODY line up. The youth percussion group are excited and ready, lets hope we get the crowds on the street as people may think it has been cancelled.

After the parade: The parade and the music group did really well, they were do tired playing for 2.5 hours we aksed them if they wanted to stop and take a break the answer was 'NO' were doing to do this till the end, all power to the group, they were fantastic.

Quotes from the day:

'First time doing a carnival we were real tired at the end but it was well worth it' (group member)

'So nice to see so many different music groups' from all over the world it was great to be part of something so big' (group member

'What a day, our group played very well, but they were shattered at the end, two and a half hours non stop playing' (music leader)