{"id":374930,"date":"2025-08-26T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374930\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:36:12","slug":"ukrainian-and-uk-bands-perform-together-to-mark-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374930\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian and UK bands perform together to mark Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian Naval Band have performed alongside the Band of the Scots Guards outside Buckingham Palace during the Changing of the Guard to mark Ukrainian Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>The two bands marched together from Wellington Barracks to the palace before playing together.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the bonds that unite Kyiv with London, the bands performed Stand By Me by Ben E King.<\/p>\n<p>It is rare for bands from other countries to have the opportunity to play in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/news\/what-changing-guard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Changing of the Guard<\/a> ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of several events that commemorated Ukraine&#8217;s 34th year of independence, which has been under threat since the Russian invasion of the country in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Changing of the Guard is a ceremonial event performed in a tradition that dates back to Henry III, serving as a display of national pride and tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian Naval Band have performed alongside the Band of the Scots Guards outside Buckingham Palace during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-374930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115095102140624494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}