A trip to Badajoz Carnival
Heather describes her trip to Badajoz to play at the Carnival
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Morecambe Colour Dash 2022
We were proud to support St John’s Hospice by playing at their Colour Dash in Morecambe, where over 500 runners participated to support the hospice. Photos by Pete Hyde
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Edinburgh Fringe 2022
Photos from our third trip to Edinburgh Fringe playing finale sets of the Friday and Saturday evening on the Mound. Our bucket collections over the two nights raised £357.91 for The Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association (LDSAMRA).
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Hannah and Jim’s Wedding
Congratulations to Hannah and Jim, who were married in July 2022. They booked us to lead the wedding party from the church to the reception and kindly shared these photos with us. Contact us if you would like us to bring our beats to your celebration or event.
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Lancaster’s Concert for Ukraine
We were asked to support a fundraising concert at Lancaster Grand to raise funds for Ukrainian families placed in Lancaster. We played outside the venue before a reception to welcome the Ukrainian families to our city. Our drummers then had a theatre tour and met the other artists at the reception, before the fundraising concert.
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Mayday Mile raises over £300 For the RNLI
On May 1 the band paraded down Morecambe Prom from the Hovercraft station to the lifeboat station and back, joined by the Marine Conservation Society, local open water swimmers and members of the public to raise money for the RNLI Mayday Mile appeal. On the day we raised £140 on our Mayday Mile sponsorship page,
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New Years Day 2022
Bringing in the New Year the only way we know how – with a bang. Thanks to Pete Hyde for the photos.
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City Centre busk raises over £500 for RNLI
On 13 November we busked in Lancaster city centre our chosen charity – the RNLI. The RNLI team collected £511.11 in their charity buckets on the day. Combined with the £463.24 raised at our Morecambe busk in June, and £325 raised online this brings the total raised this year for the RNLI to £1349.35
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Batala Lancaster help to launch RNLI’s new lifeboat
On 26 September we were delighted to support our the RNLI as our nominated charity for 2021 by playing at the naming ceremony for their new boat D-855 “Brenda Raworth”, including drumming her into the water down the slipway! The ceremony included a speech by The Bay actor Daniel Ryan and performances from the Mitzzen
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The RNLI is our nominated charity for 2021
Each year members of Batala Lancaster put to the vote which charity we would like to support with fundraising activities for the coming year. At the start of 2020 the Royal National Lifeboat Institute was chosen but due to the national restrictions this was not possible. Now in 2021 we can look forward to beginning
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