Bridge City Brass Band

A belated Happy New Year!

        Lots of changes and annoucements forthcoming! so lets get started.

• Firstly our January 25th fundraiser for Broadway Theatre (Epic Themes) has been moved back to Saturday March 1st at 7:00pm. This will be an exciting show of epic film themes on the Broadway Theatre stage. All money will go to Broadway Theatre. $10 Adults $5 Students/Seniors.

Meet the Bands

Our joint concert, year opener with the Saskatoon Brass Band was a great success. Play for the first time at Mayfair United Church, each band played a half of music followed by a couple of massed band pieces to raise the church roof. Thanks to the Church and SBB!

Remembrance Day

The band also took part in the Remembrance day ceremony at the Credit Union Centre this past Monday 11th November. Bridge City joined the Saskatoon Temple B...

New Season/New Faces

While the band took great strides forward once again over the course of the 2012/13 Season we unfortunately lost cherished players to relocation, work/family commitments and further education.

Bridge City Brass Band would like to thank the following players for their time in the band and wish them the best in their futures:

Linley and Barrie Redford, Claire Amiro, Pierre-Mathieu Gauthier, Erik Hyde, Kevin Marsh, Marissa Graham, ...

Our fifth season flew by quickly..and there is lots to catch up on!

Joint Concert

Following our succesful Celtic Brass concert at the Broadway Theatre we enjoyed a joint concert with the Brunskill School 7/8 band, hosted at Centennial Collegiate. Each band played a short set before combining for several pieces conducted by Brunskill's Director of Bands and former conductor/horn player of BCB Erin McVittie. In addition to forging ties with one of our local c...

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December saw our annual Christmas shindig go down a storm at our home at Grace Westminster United Church. Packed full of Christmas cheer and cakes on every table the band played a demanding program of music.

Fanfare: Christians Awake                    Paul Lovatt-Cooper

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Bridge City were honored to host Dr. Peter Meechan back in November for a rehearsal/workshop. Having performed several of his pieces over the past two years we were delighted to get his perspective on his compositions and also benefit from his work with the band.

This was Dr. Meechans second visit to Saskatoon. This time he was present for the World Premiere of two pieces 'Autumn Falling' and 'ISS Flyover' commissioned and performed by Dr. Darrin Oehlerking and the University of Saskat...

This past Thursday the band were delighted to welcome Composer and Conductor Paul Suchan to work with the band for half of the rehearsal. Paul has completed a commission for the band entitled "The Wandering and Fading of a Hymn", which will be premiered at the 2013 Prairie Brass Band Festival.

This was a perfect chance for Paul to rehearse his own piece and give the band key insight into the inner workings of the piece and its origins. We thank Paul for his time and giving us this great...

Bridge City Brass Band joins its bigger brother Saskatoon Brass Band to kick off our fifth season on October 13th. 7pm @ Grace Westminster United Church in Saskatoon, admission by donation.

Both bands will perform a half of music before combining for a massed band finish!

Bridge City Brass Program:

Blenheim Flourishes...................................James Curnow

Sleep.....................................................Eric Whitacre, arr. D.Sc...

Coming Soon

FIRST REHEARSAL - THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH