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BAND ORGANIZATION
* Non-profit status by-laws (currently being updated – coming soon!)
* Band member’s policy manual

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
* 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

Here’s the band’s MUSIC LIBRARY LIST. Check back often, because it keeps changing!

2012 Calendar
(check the home page for concert specifics)

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

Monday February 13

“Spring into Summer” concert

Sunday May 6, 3:00 - 4:30pm, First Baptist Church in Grass Valley

Rehearsals move to Pioneer Park

All Mondays starting May 28

Picnic Pops Concert #1

Sunday June 24, 5:00 - 7:00pm, Pioneer Park

Mohawk Valley Independence “Pops Concert at Graeagle Park”

Saturday June 30, 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

Wednesday July 4, 10am concert, 11am – 1pm parade, downtown Grass Valley

Extra rehearsal with the invitational guest musicians

Sunday July 29, 8:30am check-in, 9am-12:30pm rehearsal, free lunch to follow for all NCCBand members, Pioneer Park

Picnic Pops Concert #2 (invitational band event)

Sunday July 29, 5:00 - 7:00pm, Pioneer Park

Nevada County Fair concert - Pine Tree Stage

Saturday August 11, 3:30 – 5:00pm, fairgrounds in Grass Valley

Picnic Pops Concert #3

Sunday August 26, 5:00 - 7:00pm, Pioneer Park

Lake Wildwood concert (for Lake Wildwood residents only)

Sunday September 2, 5:00 - 7:00pm, Commodore Park in Lake Wildwood

No rehearsal

Monday September 3

Constitution Celebration concert

Saturday September 8, 5:30 – 7:00pm, N. Pine at Commercial Street, Nevada City

Break – no rehearsals or concerts

September 9 - October 14

Rehearsals resume at Sierra Presbyterian Church, 175 Ridge Road, Nevada City (near Highway 49 and behind the Imaginarium)

Monday October 15

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

All Mondays starting Monday October 15

Winter Concert

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

Break – no rehearsals or concerts

December 3, 2011 – February 12, 2012

2012 Season Repertoire – Tentative
JUNE “PLAYING IN THE PARK” 1915 March B. C. Bridges/Cheryl Woldseth Big Band Spectacular arr. Jack Bullock MEDLEY: Racing with the Moon, Sing, Sing, Sing, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Johnson Rag, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, Little Brown Jug, It Don't Mean a Thing, Stompin' at the Savoy, Don't Be That Way, Eager Beaver, Moonlight Serenade, Two O'Clock Jump (listen) Blue Moon Richard Rodgers/Warren Barker Vocal or Clarinet or Tsax or Trombone solo with band (listen1) (listen2) Blues Bari Pie Andy Clark bari sax solo with jazz ensemble (listen) Casey at the Bat Randal Alan Bass with poem by Ernest L. Thayer for narrator with band (listen) Civil War Sketches arr. Sammy Nestico MEDLEY: Bonnie Blue Flag, Dixie, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Battle Hymn of the Republic Eureka! The Great American Gold Rush David Shaffer (listen) An Outdoor Overture Aaron Copland (listen) A Salute to Spike Jones arr. Calvin Custer MEDLEY: Cocktails for Two, Chloe, Poet and Peasant Overture (listen) The Whistler and his Dog (caprice) Arthur W. Pryor (listen) You’ve Got a Friend in Me (from “Toy Story) arr. John Berry for jazz band with spot improv solos (listen) The Thunderer John Philip Sousa (listen)	JULY “ALONG FOR THE RIDE” Ben Hur Chariot Race March E. T. Paull/Cheryl Woldseth (listen1) (listen2) Flourish for Wind Band Raph Vaughn Williams (listen) The Good Old USA arr. James Christensen MEDLEY: A Bicycle Built for Two, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, In My Merry Oldsmobile, Seventy-six Trombones, Mary's a Grand Old Name, This Land Is Your Land, When the Saints Go Marching In, You're a Grand Old Flag (listen) The Great Locomotive Chase Robert W. Smith (listen) The Great Waldo Pepper March Henry Mancini/John Moss (listen) The Happy Wanderer F. Moller/Paul Yoder (listen1) (listen2) Irving Berlin Showstoppers Irving Berlin/John Higgins MEDLEY: Puttin' on the Ritz, Cheek to Cheek, Shaking the Blues Away, Steppin' Out with my Baby, There's No Business Like Show Business (listen) The Klaxon Harold Fillmore/Frederick Fennell (listen) The Pony Express Chris M. Bernotas (listen) Roller Coaster Otto Schwarz/John Moss (listen) See the USA in your Chevrolet Leon Carr & Leo Corday/Bill Moffatt (listen) Sleigh Ride Leroy Anderson (listen) Stars and Stripes Forever John Phillip Sousa To a Distant Place Carl Strommen (listen) Tramp Tramp Tramp – American Fantasia Edwin Franko Goldman/Theo. W. Tobani for Solo Clarinet, Trumpet, or Baritone with band MEDLEY (sort of) in dialog form of theme and variations, including bits from "Go Tell It on the Mountain," Auld Lang Syne," various bugle calls, "The Battle Cry of Freedom," "The Red White and Blue," "Star Spangled Banner," and "Yankee Doodle" (listen) THIS SET NEEDS A CLARINET CHOIR NUMBER	AUGUST “ONCE IN A BLUE MOON” 1915 March B. C. Bridges/Cheryl Woldseth Barnyard Blues D. J. La Rocca/Leroy Holmes for small dixieland ensemble: Clarinet, Tsax, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass, Guitar, Piano, Drums (listen) Big Band Spectacular arr. Jack Bullock MEDLEY: Racing with the Moon, Sing, Sing, Sing, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Johnson Rag, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, Little Brown Jug, It Don't Mean a Thing, Stompin' at the Savoy, Don't Be That Way, Eager Beaver, Moonlight Serenade, Two O'Clock Jump (listen) Blue Moon Richard Rodgers/Warren Barker Vocal or Clarinet or Tsax or Trombone solo with band (listen1) (listen2) Blues Bari Pie Andy Clark bari sax solo with jazz ensemble (listen) The Blues arr. Sammy Nestico MEDLEY: Birth of the Blues, Limehouse Blues, Blues in the Night (listen) Flourish for Wind Band Raph Vaughn Williams (listen) Friend Like Me (from “Aladdin”) Howard Ashman & Alan Menken/Jay Bocook Impressions of a Welsh Air arr. James D. Ployhar (tune: All Through the Night) Irving Berlin Showstoppers Irving Berlin/John Higgins MEDLEY: Puttin' on the Ritz, Cheek to Cheek, Shaking the Blues Away, Steppin' Out with my Baby, There's No Business Like Show Business (listen) Recorded by Sinatra arr. Warren Barker MEDLEY: High Hopes, Young at Heart, Love is the Tender Trap, Love & Marriage, My Kind of Town (listen) Red Roses for a Blue Lady Sid Tepper & Roy Brodsky/Philip J. Lang (listen1) (listen2) St. Louis Blues W. C. Handy/Luther Henderson/Michael Brown (listen) The Thunderer John Philip Sousa (listen)