Just a reminder for those of you playing at the Veteran’s Day program:

The program is Wednesday, November 11; we begin playing at 9:30. It will take us a few minutes to get set on the stage, get music out, etc., etc. Please try to get there around 9:15 so you can warm up and so on.

Music as follows:

Karl King March Book
Bob Puff Service Song medley
National Holidays folder (Star-Spangled Banner and Navy Hymn)
God Bless America

I have just added to our blog roll a link to the music of Arthur Lemos. Mr. Lemos is a composer and teacher from Texas. The link is titled “Free Modern Band Music”, as opposed to the link entitled “PDF Band Library”, which features music from the early 20th Century. Mr. Lemos is still living.

All of the music on his site is available for download; there are also many recordings of the pieces posted. These works would be ideal for a community or school band on a limited budget.

Please check out his music.

Thursday, October 29 @ 7:00 — DenMar (Rockport) — Concert (confirmed)

Thursday, November 5 @ 6:00 — Band Dinner (Supino’s, Danvers)

Wednesday, November 11 @ 9:30 AM (?) — Veteran’s Day Program, Legion Hall

Thursdays November 12 and 19, Regular rehearsals

November 26 — Thanksgiving Holiday (no rehearsal)

Thursday December 3 rehearsal at Methodist Church, Rockport
(confirmed)
Friday December 4 (FRIDAY) @ 7:30 — Concert at Methodist Church (confirmed)

Thursday December 10– confirmed concert date at Rockport Congregational Church (also inclement weather date for Methodist Church concert). 7:30

Thursday December 17 – Nursing Home programs with split band(s); band party follows

December 24 & 31 — No rehearsals

Thursday January 7, 2010 – First rehearsal of the New Year! Yippee! Reading session for approval pieces and other new music.

The Rockport Legion Band will be appearing at the annual Rockport Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 2:00 P.M. The band will be playing inside –in the Sanctuary of the Congregational Church in Rockport.

The program will be selected from the following:

New Colonial March

The Music Man

Pennsylvania Polka

A Santa Cecilia

Joshua

The Stripper

Gollmar Brother’s Triumphal

Nessun Dorma

Distant Greeting

Addah Polka (trumpet feature)

Watermelon Club Rag

Our Flirtations

42nd Street

The Muppet Show Theme

God Bless America

Copies of the band’s recent CD will be available for sale.

Many of you are visiting us because of our appearance on Brasscast ; you’re probably also interested in the free concert band music that’s available from the Band Music PDF Library. There is a link to the library in our Blog Roll in the column to the right side of the page. Just click on “PDF Library”, and the site should come right up.

We hope you enjoy the results of their labors.

Peter Ryan and Lucas Burns, hosts of the international band podcast “Brasscast”, have selected the Rockport Legion Band to be featured on their broadcast of September 6, 2009.

The program will play five tracks from the RLB’s new CD. The pieces are:

Duble: Galop Zip Boom

Sousa: Belle of Chicago March

Allen: General Mixup, U.S.A.

Lampe/Park: Watermelon Club Rag

Lowrey: Prince of Decorah Galop

We are, of course, thrilled to be recognized and featured on such a widely-heard program. Peter tells me that they have over 40,000 listeners worldwide! Not bad for a little band from the edge of the world.

There’s a link to Brasscast in the column to your right, but if you’re too lazy to look, here’s another one.

We’re recruiting players for all of our sections. If you’re one of those “rusty” musicians who played a concert band instrument with some proficiency, but slacked off playing when you got out of school, please consider coming up to Rockport to join our rehearsals. If you enjoy the experience, consider joining our group.

From now until the end of April, we’ll be reading through all kinds of music: some new, and some really old. Some of the music we’ll use during our upcoming seventy-seventh season of summer concerts in 2010, and some we’ll decide we don’t want to keep in our library at all.

There are only a few scheduled performances during this time (see “General Performance Schedule” Page), so there is very little pressure on individual players “to perform” in public.

To your right (“Our “Wish List”), there is a list of our particular instrumental shortages. Please note that we accept all players. It’s up to the individual to determine if we’re the right group for them to join (degree of music difficulty, etc.), so come give us a try.

What a great summer season you had this year!

You’ve also managed some firsts in the band’s long history — performing a world premiere, a first CD, a first internet broadcast, and you’re even beginning to get groupies. Nothing but praise from the audiences.

Congratulations!

Videos of last Sunday’s performance by the Creagan More Pipes and Drums with the Rockport Legion Band is posted on YouTube. I have no direct link yet, so you’ll have to find them the old-fashioned way — via Google. Just enter “YouTube + Creagan More + Rockport Legion Band” and you should be directed right to the videos.

Our CD’s are now available for purchase at the following locations:

Dogtown Books, 132 Main Street, Gloucester
Mystery Train Records, 21 Main Street, Gloucester
Rockport Chamber of Commerce, Upper Main Street, Rockport
Toad Hall Bookstore, 47 Main Street, Rockport

CD SAMPLES