2025 Programme - Liverpool WaVeS

2025 Performers & Programme

Liverpool Waves ‘FREE’ International
Music & Marching Band Festival

July 4th, 5th & 6th 2025

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Our 2025 performers

Following our successful inaugural event in 2024 we are pleased to have great cast of musical entertainment for our 2025 event.

Great FREE entertainment for everyone

TPSY Marching Band (Hong Kong)

TPSY Marching Band, established over 20 years ago, stands as a beacon of musical excellence and community involvement. Under the expert guidance of Anthony Cheng, a distinguished conductor known throughout Hong Kong and Asia, the band has thrived, with Cheng overseeing more than 50 bands in the region.

Bogerman Band (Netherlands)

The Bogerman Bigband is the ever-energetic Big Band of the Bogerman High School from Sneek, the Netherlands.

Each year, students come and go, but founder Anne Oosterhaven and current leader Sjoerd Hiemstra succeeded in keeping the music alive. This year the Bogerman Big Band celebrates her 40th anniversary.

Batala Mersey

Batala is an international samba reggae music project originating from Salvador de Bahia in north-eastern Brazil. It was founded in Paris in 1997 by Giba Gonçalves, a notable Brazilian percussionist. Today, Batala celebrates 46 bands in 17 countries and a worldwide membership of over 1,500 percussionists.

The Halcyon Syncopators

The Halcyon Syncopators is a community big band who play big band, vocal and dance music from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Based in South Liverpool, the band rehearses on alternate Thursdays. There are no auditions or fees. We are also part of CPC Music (Child, Parent and Community Music) Saturday morning music school.

The Happy Tuesday's

Tuesday Night At The Vic is a weekly get together of like minded ukulele players. The Victoria Hotel in Waterloo is the third venue for the group, moving there earlier this year following the closure of our former home at the Blues Bar in Crosby, the group having moved there from Stamps, another bar in Crosby, where the group was started nearly ten years ago. The evening is open to anyone who wishes to take part in the playing and singing or simply sitting and listening; all ages and abilities are welcome, there is no membership or audition. Come along and join in.

Wirral Grammar School's Joint Big Band

Wirral Grammar School’s Joint Big Band has been wowing audiences for many years in concert halls and theatres all across Liverpool and Wirral.

Having appeared at the inaugural Waves festival last year, the band is delighted to be back playing classic Big Band tracks as well as favourite Pop Song arrangements.

Wirral Girls Swing Band

Wirral Grammar School for Girls Swing Band from Bebington, Wirral, is made up of 40 pupils ages 13-18 with direction from Head of Music Gill Townsend and trombonist Jonas Tattersall.

Playing a range of swing standards, jazz, funk and popular music they toured to Italy in summer 2023 and are preparing for a trip to the Netherlands in 2025.

Stian Jebsen

A multi-faceted artist, Stian Jebsen is a Norwegian actor, singer-songwriter, and bass-baritone based in Manchester with a classical voice training foundation.

Having recently graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of Quentin Hayes, Stian is devoted to honing variety and quality in performance.

Showstoppers Community Band

Showstoppers Band Liverpool was set up as a community band in 2001. Since then, it has become a launch pad for a lot of young (and not so young) people to enjoy the benefit of playing and performing live music.

Either joining the band and expanding individual experiences of different forms of music, or being part of one of our bigger shows, joining the massed choirs in our community shows.

Clan Wallis Pipe Band

The Liverpool Clan Wallace Pipe Band was initially founded in 1949, named the Balmoral Pipe Band, by men returning to Liverpool after WW2 where they had served with various Scottish regiments and had either learnt to play or just developed a love for bagpipe music. In a short time the name was changed to the Victory Pipe Band until the present name was adopted in August 1979 because it fully describes the band; we are from Liverpool and we wear the Wallace tartan.

The Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra

The Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra (PCYO) is the first and largest Chinese youth orchestra in Europe. Founded in Liverpool in 1983 by community elder Mr. K.H. Li, it offers young people the opportunity to learn and perform traditional Chinese music in an inclusive, intergenerational setting.

White Rose Highland Dancers

The White Rose Highland Dance Company was formed in 2018 in Yorkshire, England. Bringing together dancers from all around the globe, promoting Highland Dance in many events both nationally and internationally, in events such s the Belfast International Tattoo, Eksjo, Sweden International Tattoo and festivals in Chengdu, China.

Dancers participating in the Liverpool WaVeS International Music and Marching Band Festival, come from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and will perform traditional Highland Dances throughout the Liverpool City