The Kuala Lumpur World Marching Band Competition

Dec 12-20: Kuala Lumpur will once again play host to one of the most prestigious international marching band competitions in the South-East Asian region: the Kuala Lumpur World Marching Band Competition (KLWMBC) 2009.

More than 20 marching bands from North America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Far East are expected to converge in Kuala Lumpur. The KLWMBC is part of an international circuit of marching band competitions sanctioned by the World Association of Marching Show Bands (WAMSB).

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KUALA LUMPUR . KUALA TERENGGANU . IPOH

The Kuala Lumpur World Marching Band Competition 2009 (KLWMBC '09) was officially launched here by Malaysian Federal Territories Minister Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin on Tuesday.

Scheduled to be held from Dec. 15 to 20, 2009, the KLWMBC'09 is in its third consecutive year and this year the competition is attracting 16 bands to compete for glory.

Participants are from Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia and China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

This year's competition is divided into two categories with the main show band competition held at the Kuala Lumpur Football Stadium and the drum-line competition held at Berjaya Times Square, a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur.

The show band competition will be held over a three-day period with the preliminaries held on Dec. 16 and 17, and the grand finals held on Dec. 19 while the drum-line competition will be held on Dec. 18.

Both local and overseas bands will take part in the street parade show although this is not a scheduled competition this year.

The KLWMBC'09 is supported by the Malaysian Tourism Ministry, Education Ministry, Federal Territories Ministry and several other Malaysian authorities such as Tourism Malaysia and Kuala Lumpur City Hall.

The event is endorsed for the third year by the World Association of Marching Show Bands (WAMSB), the international governing body for marching show bands and is put on WAMSB's calendar of events.