Owen Sound City Band - Official concert band of the City of Owen Sound, the all-ages City Band has been providing the musical soundtrack to the Scenic City since 1925

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We're Older Than We Think!

The answer to a long-standing mystery solved in an email today from Judy Gray:

“The Advertiser” (Owen Sound’s other newspaper at the time) stated on July 22, 1920..

"the city granted $600 to the new City Band."

So we have a birthday! I suppose that was a council report from Wednesday the 21 inaugurating the Owen Sound City Band by an order of council to approve the budget that kickstarted William Isles and his bandsmen! That means we're goin' on 92 years old now, and still lookin' pretty good!

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Photos! Dec. 19 at Summit Place

Linda Joch sends us this photolog from last year's show at the Summit Place -- if you've been thinking about joining your friendly neighbourhood community band, here's what it's like :)

psst -- our 2012 season rehearsals start tonight, 7:30pm at OSCVI, just so you know ...

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Bill Parker's 'Meet the Band'

via vimeo.com

Meet The Band is an hour-long historical narrative profiling four very different community bands. Bill Parker created the film 10 years ago, then ran into royalty problems and shelved the project; he's released it now on Vimeo.

"Looking back at American history, if you take the time to look a little closer, you're almost always going to find a band ... never quite in the limelight but always close to the action."