Boston Grammar School Schuhplattler Gruppe

About Us

We have been running for eighteen years. We started as what can only be described as a "one off" activity at a holiday reunion cabaret after a school trip to Germany. The first 'full time' Troupe was formed in late 1990's and instantly took off, proving extremely successful, winning local, county, national and international prizes in language festivals. A 10 Second appearance on BBC1's "The Clothes Show" in the early 1990's really started the phones ringing and since then, the various troupes throughout the years have performed at what must now be over 650 gigs at all kinds of of events, ranging from galas, fetes and parades to churches and old peoples' homes! The first ever Troupe, numbering just 9 people were invited to perform in Munich in 1992 at the world famous Oktoberfest. The next year, the Troupe won the Boston Lions' Youth Award and, following this, a troupe of 29 lads auditioned at Hull Truck Theatre for Michael Barrymore's "My Kind of People" show, going on to perform at the regional final at Sheffield's Medowhall, going down to great acclaim and meeting one very young, very nervous, Gareth Gates! More recently, the Troupe caught the roving eye of the BBC's Blue Peter children's show and we enjoyed an exciting day out at Shepherd's Bush studios rehearsing for our live performance at 5 pm, and again, delighted both the people of Britain and the then presenters Matt and Simon, who we provided with costumes and danced our routine with us. Such was the interest in the act, that we were also featured in the Christmas show of the presenters favourite moments of the year. One of our most grueling gig's, which we have been invited to for the past two years now, is the Spalding Flower Parade where we can be seen performing with the Spalding Apfeltizers Oompah Band. This is always a great gig even though a very tiring one. We now stand in the year 2008, after losing a couple of members last year along with our two sound engineers Nathan Talbot and Jason Smalley. Even more recent television appearances followed a successful audition for "Britain's Got Talent" - although we were turned down by Simon Cowell, we were a big hit with the audiences, camera crew and Stephen Mulhern loved us on "Britain's Got More Talent"!
Since then, we have been interviewed on Look North about our auditions and gained a huge amount of publicity - thanks to everyone for all of your support! Watch this space to see where we'll end up next...