Liberty High School Grenadier Band

This is a video of the Liberty High School Grenadier Band of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania marching in a parade in Hazleton, PA... The Liberty High School Grenadier Band is a marching/concert band located in Bethlehem, PA at Liberty High School. The band to this day is the only band in the world to have joined ranks with Her Majesty's Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards. The ranks of the band fluctuate yearly bewteen 230 and 270 and includes a 22 member pipe band. The band will be travelling to Pasadena, California and will be marching in the 2009 Tournament of Roses Parade in front of over 1 million people lining the streets of Pasadena, over 80 million nationwide viewers watching it on NBC, ABC and HGTV and an additional 350 million viewers worldwide in over 100 countries... It doesn't get any better than that, now everyone will get to see the pride of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and beyond! You can visit the bands website at: http://www.lhsgbopc.org/ for additional information about the band including an extensive history of the bands formation and development dating back to 1922!

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Music

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• High
• School
• Band
• Liberty
• Bagpipes
• England
• Grenadier
• Grenadiers
• bearskins

[kliz088]

This is really cool, our band actually does some similar stuff. We too have bagpipes, and we played this same song in our field show a couple years ago. I think it's awesome that you guys have joined ranks with the coldstream gaurds. We actually just came back from England and Scotland, where we went inside the barracks and watched the band. They did a performance for us, and later on we sat down and played with them for about an hour or so. It was awesome. But anyway, you guys are great :)

[Adidas5136]

thank you very much for your kind comment, it is awesome that you got to play with the Coldstream Guards, I had the honor to do so in concert with them during my senior year of high school as a bagpiper in 2000 in England, it was an amazing experience, one that will never be forgotten, thanks again!

[grae707]

wow that was intresting, coming from the UK I did not think it would be allowed to pattern a uniform from the British Army. As like the guards regiments are your bearskins real bear skin.??? Anyhow good work and good luck. cheers.

[Adidas5136]

Actually, the band has close ties with The Regimental Band of her Majesty's Coldstream Guards, and the band has been granted permission to wear an exact replica of their uniform. As for the bearskins, about 20% of the band wear real bearskins, they are retired bearskins from the Coldstream Guards. Every now and then the band gets ahold of 15 - 20 more, so maybe one day the entire band will wear authentic bearskins.

[britishguy617]

im in marching band at my highschool and i was wondering if this was ur highshools uniforms cus if so thats awesome cus i love the british and i wish my highshcool uniforms were like urs

[Adidas5136]

Yes, the uniforms worn in this video are the uniform for the Liberty High School Grenadier Band, they are patterned after The Regimental Band of Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards in London, England.

[Wolgrub]

I don't think it's fair to try and compare a highschool band with a Grade A, full-time, professional military band like the Coldstreamers. However, these kids have definitely got something.

[GameFreak5264]

they are in all white this year

[MiscymLibera]

ÄLSKA GNAGET, MEN HATA GÖTEBORG. ÄNGLAR KLUBBAS NER PÅ GATOR OCH TORG!

[NicholasBerry666]

@grae707

Yeah our bearskins are the real thing.

[mrbandman100]

your majorettes look vey good in the front . i like the tradional high steppin style that they have with the majorettes boots and tassles . good look , keep up the good work

[Wolgrub]

@rootsie92 Apparently the Coldstream Guards go out there regularly and run training sessions and master classes. I understand a retired Coldstreamer got involved some years ago to set the ball rolling.

[greenlittlelollypop]

im a freshmann majorette for the LHS grenadier band and today, june 7, was my first band practice. ya its hard asss work (:

[yaoiqueen2627]

i love our school band it rocks

[dylanveltri]

Mr. Sherry the former band director of Libert High School Band decided to change the theme of the band because I believe he respected them and thought it would be a new theme for a high school to have. Ever Since LHS represented the Coldstream Guards and have done preformances with them

[rootsie92]

As a British bloke, does anyone know why they dress like Guards Regiments? What is the connection?

They look and sound fastastic though!

[CheeseburgerRoyal]

I go there too and it's not God Save the Queen it's Rule Britannia.

We did play America the Beautiful in our field show this year which is the same melody as God Save the Queen. It was not the last song though.

[smilingiswhatilive4]

@CJErdo lol (=