Salt Spring Concert Band

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Concert Band

Photo Credit: John Cameron Photography

Upcoming Performances

	Spring Concert, April 24, 2010, "Classic Winds" featuring pipe and drum band, ArtSpring, Salt Spring Island, BC
	Relay for Life, May 2010 Portlock Park, Salt Spring Island, BC
	*Canada Day, July 1, 2010* Soccer Field, Kanaka Rd & Rainbow Rd Salt Spring Island, BC

Music Director

Dawn Hage, Music Director of the Salt Spring Concert Band, is also a busy trumpet instructor, performer and clinician on Salt Spring and Vancouver Islands.

Dawn earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Alberta and a Master's from Northwestern University. She has extensive performing experience with the Edmonton Symphony, Alberta Baroque Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and other ensembles.

Dawn has taught trumpet at Alberta College and Acoustic Planet and now operates her own music instruction studio. She is Principal Trumpet with the Sooke Philharmonic and the Salt Spring Brass Quintet.

About Us

Logo for Salt Spring Concert Band The concert band is a community band that welcomes musicians of all ages. Now in its sixteenth season, the band was founded in 1992 with a small group of adult beginner woodwinds. This nucleus extended a call for people in the community to dust off instruments and form a community band. The initial group, known as Bandemonium, was led by Wendy and Derek Milton, who passed the baton to Dawn Hage in 1999.

	The band performs a wide repertoire ranging from traditional band music to modern wind band works, symphonic transcriptions to modern programmatic music. Our current roster is 45 musicians who range in age from 11 to 70+.
	The season runs from September to June with an average of six performances a year including concerts at ArtSpring, in parks and a Canada Day show. The band rehearses on Monday evenings at the Salt Spring Middle School.

If you want more information or to join the Concert Band, please e-mail!