hey im jus wundering if u can plze send me the video on facebook of rosedales display plze. my email is jaimicameron_rox@hotmail.com

Hi all, im on the hunt for any and all marching programs from nationals etc..... especially from the late 80s early 90s. and any photos etc to do with krystal cavaliers from wanganui before 92.

cheers

Check out my group page on Facebook - http://groups.to/marchinginnewzealand/ for those who aren't members yet, created for me by Viki Yates, (display judge). Thanks Viki

memberships dropped by 10 people, does this mean they're all going to facebook? Maybe we need to update?

Yep sure did...we are now looking forward to this weekend for the first comp =]

Thank you for your message it will be greatly appreciated by the girls. Hope to see you on our travels this season.

Good Luck to all our Canterbury teams for the new marching season. Open day was a bitterly cold one but they bred them hard in the South Island.

I hope teams achieve their goals & make new friends from the sport, Enjoy yourselves.
Happy Marching

I have seen a picture of The Marching Girls uniform,or hat and jacket anyway,though I can't remember where. The main teams featured in the White Boots... film were Kensington Guards,Karisma Metro Ford,and Newman Kilties. There are snatches of KGs singing Chapel of Love,and dancing to Rockin' Robin!

Hi yes I did it was awesome and it was also about their lives as well and from menory their uniform was electric blue and black and for their display they wore sunglasses - TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!! Yes i watched the tv series of marching boots and busbies avidly, as did my girls as they all march/marched......and yes K. G'S were in that too

That's a point, I remember a film crew at nationals filming Glenette, I heard that it was to be shown on TV about this time. Does anyone remember anything about it?

Looking at the cast list for " The Marching Girls", I found that one of the actors was Riwia Brown,who later wrote the script of "Once Were Warriors",one of the finest films of the 1990s.

That would have been fun for Kensington Guards,being television stars for a day! When the documentary,"White Boots and Busby" was made in 1988,Kensington Guards were featured in that too.

Did you ever see "The Marching Girls",Jennie,and what did you think of it if you did? From the description on the NZ on Screen website,there was a lot more to it than just marching.

hey that comment from julz and olive,
i know theres a compeition in auckland 28 november which we might be attending... dont know any others tho..

I believe the girls who were in that tv series 'THE MARCHING GIRLS ' were trained either by colleen Pobar (Lochiel coach) or Sheryn Pahina the coach of Kensington Guards but I'm pretty sure it was Sheryn, and Kensington Guards actually dressed in the uniform they wore in the series and did the display at either North island champs or Nationals in New Plymouth at Rugby park - i think it was the same year, and it was awesome!!! the weather was not very nice at all - rain and cccold and everyone froze but we all loved watching them and marching just the same....was a real highlight to the week-end...it was an aewsome display they did too.

Melanie Rodriga,who directed " The Marching Girls" also directed the film "Teesh and Trude" which I have seen,though it is a sad,bleak story,with none of the energy and optimism of youth. It is well worth seeing.

Brenda Kendall,who was in "The Marching Girls" was also in Peter Jackson's "Brain Dead",and in Jane Campion's superb TV mini-series,"An Angel at my Table".Three times lucky!

The website for "The Marching Girls",the 1987 television program about a NI marching team,says: " This pioneering series was conceived by actor-writer Fiona Samuels out of frustration with the lack of challenging female roles...' for me,having the chance to create this series was life-changing'" Presumably,the actors in the series had some marching training but,unless I missed it,there was nothing to say who provided the training. It might have been a challenge in itself,training the team to be only as good as the script made it to be.

One of the actors in the series was Rachel Lang,who has since been a writer on Outrageous Fortune and Go Girls!,both of which have been shown here in Australia recently.I looked at OF occasionally,without feeling I had to watch it,and after the first ten minutes of GG decided,no,this is not for me.Or was that too harsh?

The regional news program here in the Central West normally ends with a bit of film from the past. Last night they announced footage of the 1983 NSW Girl's Marching Championship at Dubbo. Amazing,marching was to be on TV;and then they showed film of the 1983 Baton Twirling Championship! Baton twirlers do do a high-stepping march,but it was depressing that journalists no longer even know the difference between marching and twirling.

Here is another bit of information about marching from Te Ao Hou,from the November 1957 newsletter.

"Last August,for the first time,the country's foremost theatre group,the New Zealand Players,staged a play where the principal characteres were Maori actors. It was "The Pohutukawa Tree" by Bruce Mason and the chief actors were Miss Hira Tauwhare... Although she is very fond of sport and at one time was the Champion Marching leader for the Wairarapa,North Island and New Zealand,Hira's main interests have always been drama and speech...Later she went on to represent the Wairarapa in the first Miss New Zealand contest."

Does anyone remember Miss Tauwhare?

Here is something interesting I found about marching in the 1950s,in an old Maori newsletter.

In the paper Te Ao Hou,in an paragraph about marching,the writer praises it as a sport for girls,and mentions the two Maori girls in that year's New Zealand champion team,Grenadiers,of Whangarei. He also says that the only wholly Maori team is Taihoa,of Wairoa,and quotes the team's leader,Miss Hine Karaurai,as saying that the team trained from 5.30 to 7.00 every morning and night. Imagine getting up before 5 every morning,and training for 3 hours a day,every day. Even if "every day" is something of an exaggeration,what passion marching must have inspired in those girls at that time. It is only a pity Taihoa never became New Zealand champions. (And incidentally,did no one ever complain about whistles being blown at that early hour?)