MBA Household of Festivals Celebrates 50 Years of Sharing Music with Expanded Degree One Pageant in Brandon and the Addition of a Free Band Celebration Live performance That includes the RCAF Band
Subsequent week in Brandon, MB, the Manitoba Band Affiliation (MBA) Household of Festivals Degree One Band Pageant will welcome and have a good time over 1,200 college students from 24 live performance bands from throughout Southern and Western Manitoba. They may carry out for panels comprising skilled clinicians from inside Manitoba’s great music schooling group. To satisfy rising demand within the Westman area, a second day of Pageant performances has been added, in addition to a Band Celebration Live performance.
Degree One Pageant
The Degree One Pageant is a supportive, non-competitive pageant that encourages Manitoba’s youngest band college students who are sometimes coming for his or her very first band pageant expertise. This is a chance for them to carry out for his or her friends, hear performances by their friends from different college communities, and to obtain suggestions, encouragement, and next-steps from skilled music educators in a non-competitive pageant format. In Brandon, this pageant takes place on the lovely Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium and the Brandon College College of Music.
Westman Band Celebration Live performance
The MBA may be very excited to announce a FREE Westman Band Celebration Live performance that includes the Royal Canadian Air Drive (RCAF) Band, the Brandon Group Band, and the Brandon Grade 8/9 Wind Ensemble. It is a new addition to the Degree One Pageant expertise in Brandon subsequent week. The live performance might be 90-minutes (no intermission) and takes place on the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium on Tuesday night, April 29 at 7:00pm as a part of the MBA’s expanded Degree One Band Pageant.
This live performance is being launched as a pilot this yr because of funding from the Whitehead Basis for Western Manitoba and thru partnership with the RCAF Band. We’re additionally excited to showcase a few of Manitoba’s most interesting wind band musicians within the area from the Brandon Group Band and the Brandon Grade 8/9 Wind Ensemble as a part of this live performance. The live performance options bands representing many age teams and can characteristic a wide range of participating repertoire, concluding with a massed band finale – an thrilling addition to the Degree One Band pageant expertise.
Notably, one of many musicians within the RCAF Band, Kevin James, is initially from Virden, MB, the place he participated in that group’s thriving band program. He then went on to review music at BU and received the audition with the RCAF Band as a full-time Air Drive musician.
The Westman Band Celebration is free to attend. A Silver Assortment might be obtainable on the door, and seating is basic admission (doorways open at 6:30pm). A poster is offered to obtain and share.
When: Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 7:00pm (doorways at 6:00pm, seating at 6:30pm)
The place: 2025 Band Celebration Live performance Poster (11×17) Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium
Who & How A lot: Free for everybody to take pleasure in (silver assortment on the door)
Artists:
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Royal Canadian Air Drive Band, Captain Devin Sloos, conductor
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Brandon Group Band, Anna Penno, conductor
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Brandon Grade 8/9 Wind Ensemble, Erin Dodds & Graydon Cramer, conductors
Digital Pageant Program
To assist cut back MBA’s environmental footprint, a digital program for the complete Winnipeg and Brandon Degree One Festivals in addition to the Band Celebration Live performance (with conductor and ensemble biographies, live performance data, and extra) is obtainable right here.
Household of Festivals Overview
The Manitoba Band Affiliation (MBA) Household of Festivals (previously the Optimist Worldwide Band Pageant) has been a Manitoba custom since 1976 and is rising this yr to incorporate the Live performance Band Pageant, Jazz Band Pageant, the Degree One Band Festivals in each Winnipeg and Brandon, and new for 2025 a Group Band Pageant. These academic, non-competitive experiences are designed to have a good time music-making, group, and promote college students’ and group members’ progress & improvement by a long-standing tradition of positivity and encouragement. Bands come to share, study, develop, and assist one another and so they go away these pageant experiences impressed, energized and prepared for extra.
Constructing on the success of our 2024 festivals, we’re excited to be rising and including a number of elements to our household of festivals:
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The Live performance Band Pageant skilled a virtually 30% progress in participation this yr, necessitating the addition of a 3rd efficiency stage at RBC Conference Centre. This yr’s pageant was much more thrilling with extra bands and performances.
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To accommodate extra bands on the Degree One Pageant in Winnipeg, and bands which have grown too giant for the stage at our typical venue, My Church, we’re including a full extra day at a brand new venue to make sure all bands and college students can have this expertise.
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To accommodate progress in participation on the Brandon-based Degree One Pageant, we’re including a second pageant day, in addition to a Band Celebration live performance that includes the RCAF Band and two scholar/group bands from the Brandon Space, all going down on the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium and made doable partially because of funding from the Whitehead Basis for Western Manitoba.
These additions and expansions will be sure that nobody is left behind and that a whole lot extra college students, educators, and group musicians can have an MBA Household of Festivals expertise in 2025 that may stick with them for a lifetime.
Full Pageant Dates & Places:
The MBA Household of Festivals, which started with the Live performance Band and Jazz Band Festivals in February, and runs over a complete of 15 days by June 8, 2025, is among the largest of its sort in Canada. The Household of Festivals continues subsequent week with the Degree One Pageant in Brandon. The Household of Festivals concludes in early June with the non-competitive and non-adjudicated Group Band Pageant.
Live performance Band Pageant: February 18 – 21, 2025 on the RBC Conference Centre and NEW: that includes the addition of a 3rd efficiency stage to accommodate almost 30% improve in participation.
Jazz Band Pageant: February 27 – 28, 2025 at Centre culturel franco-manitobain
Degree One Winnipeg Pageant: April 22 – 24, 2025 at My Church Winnipeg & EXPANDED: April 25, 2025 at École Regent Park
EXPANDED Degree One Brandon Pageant: April 29 – 30, 2025 at Brandon College & Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium
NEW: Group Band Pageant: June 6 – 8, 2025 at Coronation Park in Winnipeg
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