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REHEARSALS
* Mondays weekly at 6:30pm – 9:00pm (doors open for warmups at 6pm)
* For the months of February, March, April, May, and October, November, the location is:
Nevada Union High School – band room I-3
11761 Ridge Road, Nevada City, CA
* For the months of June, July, and August, the location is:
Pioneer Park’s band shell
corner of Nimrod Street & Park Street, Nevada City, CA
* The band does not meet during September and December except for performances.
* The band does not meet during all of January, and most of February, September and December.

WHAT TO BRING
* Folding chair (only to outdoor rehearsals/concerts)
* Music stand (only to outdoor rehearsals/concerts)
* Instrument

CONCERTS
* For outdoor concerts, wear the standard uniform.
(blue polo shirt, black lower clothing, black shoes and socks – shorts and sandals are okay on hot days)
* For indoor concerts, wear black as much as possible. Supplement with minimal white when necessary.
* Call time at concerts is 1/2 hour, or earlier, before the indicated time.

CONTACT INFORMATION
* The band's telephone number is 272-6228. This line is answered by conductor Cheryl Woldseth.
* The email address is nccband@yahoo.com
* The Nevada County Concert Band, P.O. Box 1444, Nevada City, CA 95959

2010 Calendar
(check the home page for concert specifics)

Break – no rehearsals or concerts

December 7, 2009 – February 14, 2010

Rehearsals resume at Nevada Union High School’s band room I-3

All Mondays starting February 15

“Spring into Summer” concert

Sunday May 2, 3:00 - 4:30pm, First Baptist Church in Grass Valley

Rehearsals move to Pioneer Park

All Mondays starting May 31

Picnic Pops Concert #1 – “South of the Border”

Sunday June 27, 5:00 - 7:00pm, Pioneer Park

Mohawk Valley Independence “Pops Concert at Graeagle Park”

Saturday July 3, 4:00 - 6:00pm, Graeagle Park in Graeagle (bus transportation provided, departing Grass Valley at 12:30pm)

Independence Day curbside concert and intermittent parade music

Sunday July 4, 1pm – 3:30pm, downtown Nevada City

No rehearsal

Monday July 5

Extra rehearsal with the invitational guest musicians

Sunday July 25, 8:30am check-in, 9am-12:30pm rehearsal, free lunch to follow for all NCCBand members, Pioneer Park

Picnic Pops Concert #2 – “Out of this World” (invitational band event)

Sunday July 25, 5:00 - 7:00pm, Pioneer Park

Nevada County Fair concert - Pine Tree Stage

Saturday August 14, 4:00 – 5:30pm, fairgrounds in Grass Valley

Picnic Pops Concert #3 – “Musical Chairs”

Sunday August 22, 5:00 - 7:00pm, Pioneer Park

Lake Wildwood concert (for Lake Wildwood residents only)

Sunday September 5, 5:00 - 7:00pm, Commodore Park in Lake Wildwood

No rehearsal

Monday September 6

Constitution Celebration concert

Saturday September 11, 5:30 – 7:00pm, N. Pine at Commercial Street, Nevada City

Break – no rehearsals or concerts

September 13 - October 10

Rehearsals resume at Nevada Union High School’s band room I-3

All Mondays starting October 11

Winter Concert

Sunday December 5, 2:30 – 4:00pm, First Baptist Church in Grass Valley

Break – no rehearsals or concerts

December 6, 2009 – February 13, 2010

2010 Season Repertoire
JUNE “SOUTH OF THE BORDER” Amparita Roca (Sheltered Cliff) (Texidor/Winter) (listen) Brazilian Sleigh Bells (Faith/Conley) (listen) (listen to piano duo with band) Canciones Mexicanas (arr. Duarte) MEDLEY: Pajarillo Barranqueño (listen), Cielito Lindo (listen), Zacatecas (listen), Cuatro Milpas (listen), Jalisco (listen) Caribbean Fantasy (Morrissey) (listen) Cuban Fantasy – Suite for Band (Kepler) only number 2. The Sea El Condor Pasa (Inca dance) (Robles/Yoder) (listen to different arrangements 1, 2) Fiesta (Canova/McAllister) (link) Girl from Ipanema (Jobin/Ricketts) (listen to original song) Jamaican Rumba (Benjamin/Lang) (listen) Mexican Shuffle (Lake/Alpert) (listen to original song) Rio con Brio (Stuart) (listen) The Rose of Mexico (waltz) (Dunn/Woldseth) Tico Tico (Abreu/van der Veen) (listen to Carmen Miranda’s version) (listen to guitar 4-hands version) (listen to a flute quartet version) for clarinet quartet only	JULY “OUT OF THIS WORLD” Also Sprach Zarathustra (theme from “2001: a Space Odyssey”) (Strauss) (listen to orchestra version) Come Sunday (Ellington/Murtha) (listen) (link to Mahalia Jackson’s version) for alto saxophone solo with band The Empire Strikes Back (from “Star Wars” Episode 5) (Williams/Bullock) (listen to orchestral version) I’m Beginning to See the Light (George, Hodges, Ellington, & James/arr. Mark Taylor) (listen 1, 2) (listen to Ella Fitzgerald’s version) for vocal solo with jazz ensemble Infernal Dance and Finale (from The Firebird Suite) (Stravinsky/Balent) (link) Jupiter (from The Planets) (Holst) (listen to orchestral version) Rio con Brio (Stuart) (listen) Roswell, 1947 (Barrett) (link) Song and Dance (Saucedo) (listen) Trombone Rag (Higgins) (listen) trombone section feature Under the Stars (march) (Steck) Waldlied (Muller/Pottag) for french horn section only When You Wish Upon a Star (from “Pinochio”) (Harline/Herfurth)	AUGUST “MUSICAL CHAIRS” The Deviation Polka (arr. Bruce Piner and Cheryl Woldseth) for bassoon solo versus band Grand Grand Overture (Arnold) (listen) Libiamo ne’ lieti calaci (from “La Traviata”) (Verdi/Woldseth) for brass quintet only Music Man – highlights from (Willson/Reed) MEDLEY: The Wells Fargo Wagon, Till There Was You, Seventy-Six Trombones Oh When the Saints (arr. Lennie Niehaus) (listen) for saxophone quartet only Omnium Gatherum (Siebert) Trombone Rag (Higgins) (listen) trombone section feature Tico Tico (Abreu/van der Veen) (listen to Carmen Miranda’s version) (listen to guitar 4-hands version) for clarinet quartet only Trumpeter’s Lullaby (Anderson/Lang) (listen) Tutti Frutti (Buttall) (link to excerpt) flute trio with band Wrong Note Rag (from Wonderful Town) (Bernstein/Ricketts) (listen to this arrangement) (link to Broadway version)

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin/Howard Rowe) for clarinet quintet (listen)

Angels We Have Heard on High (arr. Lennie Niehaus) for brass quintet (listen to a saxophone quartet version)
also includes “We Three Kings” and “Cantique de Noel”

Jal (Journey) (Christopher Caliendo) for two flutes and guitar (listen to flute/cello/guitar version)