Burlington Teen Tour Band: Preparing for Hawaii

The BTTB has had a proud and distinguished career in representing Burlington and Canada around the world at historic events. From the D-Day celebrations (40^th and 50^th anniversary) to the liberation of the Netherlands by Canadian forces (50^th and 60^th anniversary) to name a couple and now to be the only non-American band to be invited to the 70^th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbour is another honour we are extremely proud of!

Four months today the BTTB will be boarding the plane to return home from what I believe will be a tour of great memories! Of course when you think of Hawaii you think of paradise and there is no doubt that Hawaii is a beautiful place to visit.

The mountains, beaches, greenery, palm trees, laid back life style, the music, traditions, the history of the island and the people and of course Pearl Harbour. All of these will combine into what will stimulate the senses in so many ways. Add to that the visit and performance at Pearl Harbour while Bernie Comito, our Pearl Harbour survivor and his wife Jackie will be with us the entire time. No doubt this will be a very emotional time.

We still have lots to do as we prepare for the tour including lots of practice, many performance leading up to the tour, lots of documents to get ready, tons and tons of tour logistics, getting our newer members ready,

Below are several various web links to site related to our tour.

Pearl Habour

The movie trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr6pVUv9cJQ&feature=BFa&list=WL469DE7E16931856A&index=2

News reel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnOtWm5OrM&feature=BFa&list=WL469DE7E16931856A&index=3

1945 Color Video Vintage Footage

Great video of a Spontaneous Victory Parade in Honolulu in1945.

Take a look at this video-absolutely fabulous! Notice the cars and jeeps, youth. The guys in khaki or gray shirts and black ties are Navy officers or chiefs. The rest are Army or Marine. How young they all were to do what they did.

http://vimeo.com/5645171

President Roosevelt’s “day of infamy” speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE – the real speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2_bAd39pAA&NR=1 – from the movie “Pearl Harbour”

Wikipedia - Hawaii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii

Pictures / slide shows of Waikiki Hawaii

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv09gaQ_XLc&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYCypZUfmXg&feature=bf_next&list=WL469DE7E16931856A&index=9

Polynesian Culture Centre

http://www.youtube.com/user/polynesiancultural#p/a/f/0/Py0FD1nMS88

Our hotel