New players are always welcome! The Batavia Concert Band provides a challenging performance opportunity for individuals who wish to preserve their technical musicianship, and participate in a quality musical group. Members are expected to purchase an official band shirt and participate in fundraising efforts as well as rehearsals and performances.
Player Participation Agreements are mailed in April/May for the summer concert season and must be returned by the date stipulated in order to be scheduled as an official band member. Anyone wishing to play after the deadline has passed may be allowed to volunteer if all other guidelines have been met.
The band incurs many costs throughout the concert season, including purchase of new music, maintenance costs on the existing music library, setup for concert sites, printing programs and posters, liability insurance (yes, we need it) and more!
Since concerts are free, these costs are met mostly with donations from area businesses and individuals. Without these donations, the music would stop. Here's how you can help keep that music going each summer in Centennial Park.
Individuals
As a music lover, you can help defray the season cost with Scholarship Donations, by participating in the Taste of WNY Raffle, and becoming a Patron.
The Batavia Concert Band will again make music in Centennial Park during its summer season of free concerts, 7:00pm every Wednesday, from June through August, plus additional concerts at Jackson Square, and area parades.
The Band marched in the Memorial Day parade and will lead off an afternoon of musical performance during this year's Independence Day Picnic in the Park.
The Batavia Concert Band's musical repertoire is wide-ranging in origin, style and period. In any concert audiences are likely to hear a mix of Sousa-style marches, Broadway show tunes, big-band numbers from the 30's and 40's, favorites from hit musicals and movies, pop, jazz and even rock numbers arranged for band, and everything in between.
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