The Geelong Concert Band

The SENIOR band will return to rehearsals on Friday January 29th from 7-10pm. It is likely that there will be a Big Band rehearsal on this night from 5:30-7:00pm also but this will be confirmed with individual players.

YOUTH and WORKSHOP bands will return to rehearsals the following Friday on February 5th at their regular times ie Workshop Band 4:30 – 6:00pm and Youth Band 6:00 – 8:00pm – Senior band will also rehearse at their regular time of 8:00-10:00pm from this night onwards.

If you have any questions regarding these times, please contact Trish for further information.

A huge thank-you to everyone who assisted at the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle on December 19th. Many thanks to Amanda for all of her hard work in organisating the day for the band. It turned out to be a very busy day with the sale of 110kg of sausages and 25kg of onions between 9am and 5pm. Many thanks to Heather for running around and organising an extra 50kg of sausages when we ran out at 1pm!

All in all we made a profit of just over $2400.

The Workshop,Youth and Senior bands of the Geelong Concert Band will present their final in house concert for 2009 on Friday December 4th at 7pm at Robertson Hall, Geelong College Prep School, Minerva Road, Newtown. Tickets can be purchased at the door – Adults $8 and Concession $5.

Raffle tickets will be sold on the night – 50c each or 3 for $1 – there are multiple Christmas Hampers to be won and a Christmas Cake.

Could all Youth Band members be at Robertson Hall by 6pm – Katie would like to do a quick run through before the concert. Workshop Band members need to be present by 6:15pm and Senior band members by the start of the concert. All band members must be in full band uniform for this concert.

If you have items for the hamper, please bring them along, we will leave a hamper open to add extra items on the night.

This Friday is the final rehearsal for all three bands for term 3. There will then be a two week break for the Youth and Workshop Bands who will return to rehearsals on Friday October 9th at the normal times. The Senior band will however return on Friday October 2nd from 7-9:30pm in preparation for Concert of the Decade which will be staged on Saturday October 3rd at Costa Hall – performance and report times will be given out at rehearsal on Friday October 2nd. Tickets for Concert of the Decade can be purchased from the CoGG – only catch is that you must be over 50 years of age to attend as it is the opening concert of Seniors Week 2009.

Congratulations to all of the members of the GCB who performed at last weekends Annual Costa Hall Concert. The concert was very successful with all bands playing extremely well. A big thank-you to our special guests Tim McCallum, Reyna and Chris Hudgell for their amazing ability to perform and entertain the audiance.

Colin Mockett has completed a review which can be found on the Entertainment Geelong website at the following link:

http://www.entertainmentgeelong.com/nnreviews.html

If you are looking for something to do on Saturday August 29th please come along to Costa Hall, Deakin University Waterfront campus at 7:30pm to support the Geelong Concert Band. This concert will feature the Workshop, Youth and Senior Band and the GCB Big Band performing works that can be heard in musical theatre or the movies. Tickets can be purchased at the door – Adult $18, Student/Concession $15, Children under 12 $10 and groups of 10+ $14.

Tim McCallum and Reyna Hudgell will be performing with the Senior Band and Big Band and Chris Hudgell will help Reyna out with compering.

For Band members – rehearsals will be held at the following times at Costa Hall:

Workshop Band 1:00-1:30pm
Youth Band 1:40-2:30pm
Senior Band 2:40 – 4:00pm
Big Band 4:10-4:45pm.

All members are asked to be in the Green Room 15 minutes prior to their allocated on stage rehearsal time.

Evening call is 6:30pm for Workshop Band and Youth Band and 7:30pm for everyone else.

On August 22nd, the GCB Senior Band ventured to Ballarat to take place in the Victorian State Band Chapionships. Unfortunately there were no other bands competing in the Open A Grade Section but that did not deter the band from putting on an excellent performance. They scored the following for the works they presented:

Major Work
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 88/100
Concert Items
Cartoon 44/50
Moto Perpetuo 41/50

Total Score 173/200

Congratulations to Mark and all of the band members for retaining their Open A Grade Title.

The VBL has advised the that the GCB Senior Band will report to the VBL at 2:45pm and be on stage at 3:30pm on Saturday August 21st at the Wendoree Performing Arts Centre.

Come along and support the band as they defend their Open A Grade Title.

A bus for Senior Band members will leave Robertson Hall at 1pm – the cost will be $10 per person. Anyone driving up themselves will need to be at the Wendoree Performing Arts Centre by 2:30pm.

All GCB rehearsals will be changed to the HUMBLE CENTRE, Geelong College Senior School, Aphrasia St, Newtown on FRIDAY AUGUST 14th. Rehearsals will be at normal times. The Big Band rehearsal for this night has been cancelled.

The Senior Band (only) rehearsal scheduled for Sunday August 16th from 2-5pm will also be held at the Humble Centre.

This post marks the beginning of the new GCB Website. Enjoy!

For Senior band only – there will be a rehearsal held on Friday October 3rd from 7:00pm to 9:30pm – this is to run the pieces for the Seniors concert which is on the next day and to go over the 3rd mvt of Piece of Mind which Mark wants to add to the performance for the annual concert.

The band is doing a fundraiser sausage sizzle at Bunnings in Waurn Ponds on Saturday November 1st and Louise Thacker is looking for volunteers – if you are able to help, please give Louise a call and register your interest.

Laura Elshout is looking for volunteers to have a concert sign on their fence as we have missed out on the CoGG displays around Geelong. If you are able to help, please give Laura a call on 0402 042 572. Flyers for the concert will be available for members to put up ie at school or your local milk bar/shops etc – these will be available on Friday at rehearsal.

Finally tickets for our annual concert will be available to purchase from rehearsal this Friday evening – the cost of tickets are $18 Adults, $15 Concession and Students, $10 Children 12 and Under and $12 for Group bookings of 10+. Please try to have the correct change when you come to purchase tickets – they will be on sale between 5:30 – 6:30pm and 7:30 – 8:30pm on Friday September 19th, October 10th, 17th and 24th. Tickets can also be purchased from GPAC from Monday September 22nd. Please help support the band as this is our major fund raiser – if every family was able to sell 10 tickets we would sell out Costa Hall!!