Hello, I'm Simon one of the 3 instructors for the band along with Martina Zechendorf and Erica Skowron.
The Band starts mid September on the14th Rehearsals are from 6-8 Sundays at St Paul's church. People can arrive late or leave early, that's fine. If arriving later the back door is the best way to get someone's attention. The band will run until March-April. That will be season one.
Please register before the first session to enable us to plan.
There is no charge for the bands first season.
We have funding from the New Horizons for Seniors Program for the first season after that there will be a small charge 10/reh. This takes in to consideration the cost of getting to the rehearsal for participants , the loan of instruments remains free. The Prince George version of this band is going into season 14 and the Southside band is going into season 2.
Music level depends on who wants to play. Usually when I do these bands the first 30 minutes of the reh is dedicated to beginners. (we have a set of good beginner band books and a set of quartet books that are end of first year books) I'll start there then we will move on to sheet music.
Often the more experienced players like me play along with the beginners to help them but it's also a good warmup. For the most part I go for music that most people can play fairly quickly but I mix in harder pieces as well. If you have a music stand that you could bring that might be a good idea, we have a few but it's good to have extras.
We have instruments that players in the band can use while they are in the program for no charge, flutes, clarinets, sax, trumpet, trombone, tuba, baritone, drums etc. These are fcfs as we have only a few and are serving multiple bands.