Liverpool WaVeS International Music and Marching Band Festival
LWM actively encourages music innovation by using instruments from one sector to create different performances in another that will inspire future generations to engage and experiment with music and all other associated art forms to help develop the individual to create their better future.
LWM actively encourages youth to lead their youth and school bands. Giving them the opportunity to gain leadership and management skills.
LWM welcomes all forms of music and associated art forms from around the world performed by any one regardless of their age, creed, ethnicity, orientation or disability.
LWM aims to engage with and promote to young people and the wider communities of the UK and the world the positiveness of music and performance, by local, national and international groups coming together in Liverpool and other cities in the UK to perform and share their own cultures and values through music and performance.
LWM is not a competition which allows more groups to apply to be able to showcase their performances internationally.
LWM as a community interest company does not affiliate itself with any political, religious or any other group or organisation that has views outside of LWM structures, aims and values.
LWM does not have any shareholders and as such any profits will be used to enhance the performance opportunities within the festivals and support the local communities to engage with music and performance.