Since the band’s formation in 1865, both in its original title La Filarmonica del Zurrico and also its late name Queen Victoria never failed to contribute its share towards the great festivities that are held annually in the third week of July in honour of Our Lady. The Society & Band Club presently organises all the outdoor festivities for the feast. The club also owns its fireworks factory.

Past Times
The devotion of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel existed in the village of Zurrieq and since from centuries ago certainly before 1653 when a new painting was made for the altar dedicated to Our Lady in the parish church of Zurrieq.

Before the restrictions imposed by the ecclesiastical regional council of 1936 the band would have commenced the festivities on the Friday night preceding the feast day proper, usually held on the third Sunday of July. The band would march down the main street of the village into the main square. This march held at night was popularly known as A La Veneziana and the band would be preceded by joyful youth holding brightly coloured lanterns. On the eve of the feast the band would give a concert of classical music, usually popular opera music, on the bandstand in the main square of the village. Come Sunday morning and all the families would accompany the band in a morning marathon of marches round the principal streets of the village usually culminating in the sizzling sun of the afternoon. The evening would be taken up by a number of guest bands. These bands would play at vantage points along the processional route under the dim lights of oil lamps, and in the early years of the twentieth century under gas light now under bright electric bulbs. The Sunday following the feast the band would hold a traditional march out when the band accompanied by number of revelry makers would march playing festive marches and songs right down to the nearby seaside hamlet for a daylong picnic. There it would embark on boats for trips round the small island of Filfla still making merry with marches and songs.

The Band's Musical Archives
The band holds in its musical archives a number of compositions suitable for the occasion of a religious festa in honour of Our Lady. Foremost amongst these compositions is the Grand and Solemn Hymn for band, tenor baritone and choir composed by Mro. E. Bartoli in 1878. Amongst the popular marches of special mention and immensely popular are the Inno Marcia Fior Del Carmel by Cardenio Botti, Madonna Tal-karmnu by Angelo Pullicino and Jum Il-Festa (Feast Day) by once the bands own directors Mro. Emle. Bugeja.  

Feast Celebrations
The Carmelite Society and Queen Victoria Band Club presently organises all the outdoor festivities for the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The Club invites number of guest bands to play in the village on various days of the week. The band itself then presents aformal classical programm on the band stand in the main square. The club also owns a fireworks factory when a number of volunteers manufacture all the fireworks that are let off during the festa week. Following here is a list of activities held during the festa week.
 
Sunday preceding the feast:  The Statue of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel is carried into the parish church from the adjacent oratory. Before this ceremony the band holds a short march through the principal streets of the village.

Monday:  Band march by guest band.

Tuesday:  Band march by guest band.
 
Wednesday:  The Queen Victoria Band presents a classical music concert on the artistic bandstand in the main square.

Thursday:  Band march by guest band.

Friday:  The Queen Victoria Band marches throughout the main streets of the village.
 
Saturday: Guest Band presents a short musical programm followed after with the same band and another guest band form a massed band.

Sunday: Feast day proper. In the morning the Queen Victoria Band holds a marathon march throughout the village. In the evening while the procession winds its way through the village, three guest bands play marches at various places in the village.

Throughout these activities petards and colourful fireworks are let off. Of particular mention are pyrotechnical displays on Saturday evening and Sunday evening.

For the occasion of the feast the club decorates the major streets of the village. The decorations take the form of sculptured wooden columns into which are appended banners and flags also pedestals on which are placed statues, angels holding lights or large candelabra. The streets are lit by means of thousand of electric light bulbs.