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Your Centennial Band Info Center Thank you band members for your continued support with your monetary contribution and dedication to playing with the band. We had a great Spring concert, keep up the good work. See Rehearsal and Concert Schedule Below for the 2008 Summer Season | |||
A little bit about us: The Grand Junction Centennial Band was originally formed in 1981 for a one-time performance at the Colorado West Music Festival. It was so successful that they decided to keep it going and soon became a member of the Grand Junction Musical Arts Association. The Band's mission is to be a positive contributor to the musical environment of the area. We provide for a continuing interaction of musicians through the experience of musical functions in the community and re-affirm the great American tradition of the home town community concert band and its role in music culture. The Centennial Band is a non-auditioned all volunteer adult group that provides a musical outlet for its members by encouraging and challenging players of all backgrounds and abilities to perform a wide variety of music. The band invites student musicians to perform with the band during the summer and to fill specific instrumentation needs for indoor concerts. Area school and dance groups and guest soloists have also performed with the Centennial Band. The Centennial Band's approximately sixty musicians play a wide variety of music. Gary Ambrosier is the principal musical director for the band. The band performs as a formal Symphonic Band for the indoor concert season with the music repertoire ranging from classical compositions, transcribed for concert band to traditional marches. The band is very active during the summer months performing free outdoor concerts at local parks and other venues including the Glenwood Springs Strawberry Days Parade, the Fruita Pavilion, Palisade Peach Festival, Powder Horn Ski Area and Cedaredge Pioneer Town (new this summer), and the Band's annual performance with the Grand Junction Symphony for the "Evening Under the Stars" concert at Lincoln Park. We will be presenting a concert on May 18th for the Colorado National Monument at the picnic area near the visitor center to kick off the summer session. The summer concerts feature a lighter fare of marches, patriotic pieces and other music that is aimed at providing entertainment to a wide range of people and to reaffirm the Band's role as Grand Junction's community band. Please come and enjoy our wide variety of selections in some of Grand Junction's finest parks this summer...don't forget your favorite lawn chair. Please contact John Cunningham at 243-9091 for more information, we always welcome new member musicians.
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