Ottawa Community Concert Band to perform
June 11, 2007 |
Ottawa Community Concert Band to perform
at the Canadian War Museum
Ottawa, Ontario, June 6, 2007 — The Canadian War Museum is offering its visitors an afternoon of music performed by the Ottawa Community Concert Band on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 17 at 2 p.m.
WHAT: Ottawa Community Concert Band performance
WHEN: Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 2 p.m.
WHERE: LeBreton Gallery, Canadian War Museum
COST: Free with Museum admission
More information is available by calling 819 776-8600 or 1 800 555-5621.
About the Ottawa Community Concert Band
In the late 1960s a small group of amateur musicians were taking part in an adult education program at Highland Park School in Ottawa. This group, which included Maurice Comeau, Al Carlyle, Jean Warnock and Dick Warnock, came up with the idea of starting a regular amateur band. Maurice Comeau conducted the new group until in 1970 it adopted the name Ottawa Community Concert Band (OCCB) under the baton of its first Musical Director: M. M. (Mel) Scott. Following Mel Scott’s retirement to Florida, the band has been directed by Gordon Slater, Ken Irons, Tom Jennings, Stu Smith, Stanley Clark, Bernie Leger, Jim Milne, Jim Glover and by its present (second time) Music Director Jim Milne. Membership consists of over fifty musicians of all ages whose repertoire includes classical, marches, old-time favourites, show tunes, big band and jazz. The OCCB is a provincially-registered charitable non-profit group that depends upon membership fees together with sponsorship from patrons in the public and private sectors to offset the cost of rehearsal space and music purchases. With the approval of the Musicians Association of Ottawa-Gatineau the band performs about a dozen concerts a year at local hospitals and retirement homes. In the spring of both 2004 and 2005 the band was awarded a gold certificate at the Kiwanis Music Festival.
http://www.occband.ca.
About the Canadian War Museum
The Canadian War Museum is the national museum of military history, and the second most visited museum in the Nation’s Capital. It attempts to help all Canadians better understand their country’s military history in its personal, national and international dimensions. The Museum emphasizes the human experience of war to explain the impact of organized human conflict on Canada and Canadians, and how, through war, conflict, and peace support operations, Canadians have affected, and have been affected by, the world around them. Special exhibitions and programs also explore non-Canadian and general themes related to the human experience of war and the subject of armed conflict, past and present.
Media Information:
Christina Selin
Manager, Communications
Canadian War Museum
Telephone: 819 776-8607
E-mail: christina.selin@warmuseum.ca.
Pierre Leduc
Media Relations Officer
Canadian War Museum
Telephone: 819 776-8608
E-mail: pierre.leduc@warmuseum.ca.
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