For music lovers up north, the Battle of the Bands has become a special September treat after 4 years on the September Celebrations Calendar.
This year, it was held at the Ricalde Stadium in Corozal Town, and Orange Walk's Super Furia Band won first place.
Members of the veteran band, which has been in existence for 26 years, spoke to us on what the win meant to them:
Roxanne Alcoser, lead vocalist - Super Furia
"The battle of the bands - this is the 4th time that they are doing it and this is the first time that we participated in it and it was an excellent experience because we got to practice and rehearse from before and put a lot of work into it. I am glad to say that our work and effort was definitely paid off because we came in 1st."
"It was held this past Sunday and it entails 4 bands in which there was 4th place, New Generation Band who had excellent guitarists and they had keyboardist and singers as well and the 3rd place winner was the All Star Band which consisted of band members of Gilharry and also members of CCC junior college band. The 2nd place winner was Techno band which had excellent singers as well as musicians and 1st place was us which are Super Furia Band."
Daniel Ortiz
"Can you tell us a little bit about the music you guys played which resulted in the win?"
Roxanne Alcoser
"The first segment was graded by slow-pace songs to fact-pace songs without stopping the music. They graded on the transition and how smooth you execute that and then we played the 10th song and of course we played an original song "Long Live Belize" which is 21st Independence Day song that we did and the afterwards the second segment consisted of carnival songs in which we had to jump up and place the people to dance and wave and all those carnival movements."
Daniel Ortiz
"Tell us a little bit about the response of the crowd?"
Roxanne Alcoser
"I have to say wow - the crowd, the feedback and energy that you got from them. They were very positive and so into the music and I can guarantee you that each one of them enjoyed the music."
Super Furia took home a cash prize of $2,500 for winning first place. Taking second place went Techno Band from Corozal, which received $1,500 and taking third place was the All Star Band which received $750.
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