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The World Music Competition takes place every 4 years in Kerkrade, Netherlands. The next time it happens is in 1997. It has been said to be close to an Olympics for marching groups. It takes place on all 4 weekends in July.

There are three different areas of competition. You can be in all of them, two of them or even just one if you prefer. There is concert music, parade and field show. There are I believe 3 different levels of competition as well. All groups compete against each other in their specific area. You can have community marching bands competing head to head with military bands.

The venue for the field show and marching events is an out door soccer field which has a track encircling it. It seats about 10-20 thousand people. And it is full every weekend. It is also broadcast on Netherlands T.V.

Here is a link to one of the other groups that was there in 1993.

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