The march is named after an English county in the United Kingdom. Northumberland is a county located on the Scottish border and is therefore a frequent site of battles. Northumberland's landscape is renowned for being a Moorland landscape untouched by industrial development
Arranged by Lt. Col. Trevor Sharpe Former Director music of The Band of Coldstream Guards in 1968 for The Queen’s Birthday Parade in that year The march is set to the tune of Northumbrian folk songs Geordie hinny, Lampton Worm, Blaydon Races, Wor Geordie’s lost his penka and Adam Buckham.
This recording was performed by The Band of Coldstream Guards
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