UK Bhangra Competitions?

[Tuckerrrr]

Any info on competitions in UK? I'm doin my postgrad here and would like to at least see some Bhangra if not participate.

Anyone know anything? Thanks in advance.

 

[tdotpunjabi]

lol bhangra in the UK, i doubt it. I went to the UK this summer, and it was impossible for us to find a bhangra team for a cuzins wedding. And were talking in Birmingham and even Southhall.

 

[pritpal94]

Any info on competitions in UK? I'm doin my postgrad here and would like to at least see some Bhangra if not participate.

Anyone know anything? Thanks in advance.

Kiddha Tucker!
You are always welcome to help out Suruj Bhangra or my new team.
Bhangra in the UK is really bad atm, it's all weird to me after watching so many videos of Canadian and American teams.
I wish to move to Toronto :'(
No competitions sorry

 

[faysal]

hey tucker, depending on where your going to uni there may well be a team. At the moment there's only one competition here and thats strictly unis only so you would be able to take part if your uni chose to. It's called the bhangra showdown, happens around dec/jan time they keep switching it.

and tdotpunjabi i don't know which version of birmingham you were in, but there's plenty of bhangra teams there and in southall, the midlands is littered with them, gabru punjab de, easily one of if not the most well known team in the uk is from birmingham they are the ones in nearly every bhangra video you see these days...aashiq...jk's gabru punjab da etc, so you were most likely asking the wrong people or looking in the wrong place.

 

[Meistro]

so when is the traditional bhangra wave gonna hit the UK? Faysal, make it happen dude. I wanna see UK teams come to at least east coast comps. That would be cool.

 

[pritpal94]

so when is the traditional bhangra wave gonna hit the UK? Faysal, make it happen dude. I wanna see UK teams come to at least east coast comps. That would be cool.

My new team will kick it off

 

[pritpal94]

The new teams homework is to watch DAV videos.

 

[faysal]

i would say by the time pritpals old enough to fly over and compete we should be somewhere close to where the NA scene is now, theres a couple teams here including my own pushing the folkness, or trying lol, only thing is, we have one comp A YEAR total and that unis only that are lame, just do a quick search of the bhangra showdown 2009 on youtube, doesn't breed the evolution of the dance too quickly, and im not in the most prime of locations to be promoting bhangra to the uk unfortunately

 

[Tuckerrrr]

yea i saw some of the showdown vids its kinda like american bhangra a few years back. where r u located and what team do u dance for?

i would say by the time pritpals old enough to fly over and compete we should be somewhere close to where the NA scene is now, theres a couple teams here including my own pushing the folkness, or trying lol, only thing is, we have one comp A YEAR total and that unis only that are lame, just do a quick search of the bhangra showdown 2009 on youtube, doesn't breed the evolution of the dance too quickly, and im not in the most prime of locations to be promoting bhangra to the uk unfortunately

 

[Tuckerrrr]

Tucker,
Faysal is in the Bradford/Yorkshire area.
I am in the Warwick/Leamington/Coventry/Birmingham area.
You choose who to join

lol im in oxford, how far is that from u guys?

 

[Aaron.B]

Pritpals team is gonna run sh1t in the UK

 

[BDR Official Fan]

Damn son. We got international members now. WooHooo BDR in UK!!!!! Go Dawgs!!!!

 

[faysal]

my team is way too far for you haha other side of the country, your a lot closer to pritpal but your gona be a lot older than most of his members who probably can't grow a beard yet lol what uni do you go tucker? they may well already have a team

 

[Raman Dholi]

The Punjab Dancers - Southall "UK's number one bhangra team" ;D ...spread the word haha
http://thepunjabdancers.com/

lol competitions never really kicked off in u.k because there was always too many conflicts and arguments

hopefully it can change now

 

[Meistro]

lol competitions never really kicked off in u.k because there was always too many conflicts and arguments

if there can be competitions in Toronto, there can be competitions ANYWHERE in the world

 

[-Dav-]

Bhangra Showdown is onli comp in UK at the moment...in terms of traditional bhangra you aint really guna see that here lol.big props to Faysal and his team who are doing it traditional..Oxford is close to where i'm at if u wana join GCC lol...we like Faysals team are tryna keep it traditional Like Pritpal our team watches Khalsa College, DAV etc for our homework but like to bring our own style to it aswel.
Watch out for Gabru Chel Chabileh dancers in the UK very soon lol

 

[Tuckerrrr]

my team is way too far for you haha other side of the country, your a lot closer to pritpal but your gona be a lot older than most of his members who probably can't grow a beard yet lol what uni do you go tucker? they may well already have a team

im at oxford uni, they dont have a team...at least not yet...i dont think we'll be able to start one...so far its only 2 of us who wanna do it...plus i dnt wanna lead a team takes too much time i jus wanna dance and do bhangra

ill be at LSE in london next year is that closer? lol sry i dno much about geography in uk

 

[Tuckerrrr]

Bhangra Showdown is onli comp in UK at the moment...in terms of traditional bhangra you aint really guna see that here lol.big props to Faysal and his team who are doing it traditional..Oxford is close to where i'm at if u wana join GCC lol...we like Faysals team are tryna keep it traditional Like Pritpal our team watches Khalsa College, DAV etc for our homework but like to bring our own style to it aswel.
Watch out for Gabru Chel Chabileh dancers in the UK very soon lol

how far am i from u GCC and how old r u guys lol? do u have beards yet

 

[faysal]

damnn oxford huh lol so your smart and have ridiculous amounts of money for international student fees! haha jkes aside yea you'll prob struggle to find people wanting to do bhangra there. Davs team is in leicester so still north of you lol, there are teams in london already though like virsa punjab and couple others they just aren't all that well known, just google uk bhangra teams!

***just saw your last post lol they're all uni students in final year ish or graduates so they're probably only a year or two younger than you buddy **

 

[Tuckerrrr]

damnn oxford huh lol so your smart and have ridiculous amounts of money for international student fees! haha jkes aside yea you'll prob struggle to find people wanting to do bhangra there. Davs team is in leicester so still north of you lol, there are teams in london already though like virsa punjab and couple others they just aren't all that well known, just google uk bhangra teams!

***just saw your last post lol they're all uni students in final year ish or graduates so they're probably only a year or two younger than you buddy **

haha k cool thanks bro i was asking dav abt the beards tho . i jus looked leicester is a 3-4 hr bus ride and london is 100 minutes. dang. ill jus go to showdown n watch lol