Owen Sound City Band: awards

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Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Owen Sound City Band circa 1937

courtesy of Nancy Mashinter (OSCB) and Karin Noble (Grey Roots Archives), a photo of our City Band in full regalia in the Summer of '37, around the same time we won the Canadian Open Class A Brass and Reed Championship.

Back row L to R: L. Stuck, Wm Gow Jr, S. Pearce, Wm Iles (founder), F. Mitchell, Wm Miller, L. Bonner (Pres), H. Bonner, T.Potter, Dr. Griffin, C. Blackstone, A. Quinn, G. Taylor, L. Allen

Centre: H. Iles, Cliff Iles, C. Holmes, Wm Gow Sr, A. Clow, R. Buck, A. Hayward, J. Taylor, Clar. Iles, B. Hunter.

Front: L. Waghorn, A.Rutherford, A. Stuck, A. McNiven, J.Cowie (Director), S. Cruickshank, Wilf Iles, L. Strange, C. Thompson.

Absent: Art Harris.

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Stars will be out tonight!

The Owen Sound city band and West Hill's new percussion ensemble will be part of the Grey County Kiwanis Festival of Music's concerts of festival stars for the first time.
Both were among this year's festival participants to achieve the highest results, which includes adjudicators' recommendations to play at the wrap-u p concerts and share some $10,000 in festival awards and scholarships, executive director Mary Jane Quinn said Friday.
Some 2,000 singers and musicians competed at venues around Owen Sound from April 4 through 7 and 11 through 14, with about 600 individual entries, Quinn said.
As always, the festival wraps up with two festival stars concerts, with winning soloists and small ensembles at Alliance Church tonight at 7:30 p.m. and choirs, bands and orchestras at OSCVI auditorium Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Admission to both concerts is $5.
Confirmed participants for Tuesday's concert include The Dufferin School Junior Choir, the Grade 7 and Grade 8 Choir from Hillcrest school, The St. Anthony's Glee Club, from St. Anthony's Catholic school in Kincardine, the Hillcrest Husky Jazz Band, The Georgian Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Georgian Bay Secondary School Senior Orchestra.
The Port Elgin Saugeen Central School Grade 8 Band has also been invited but had not confirmed availability Friday, Quinn said.

via owensoundsuntimes.com

Our congrats again to all the musicians who participated in this year's Kiwanis and a big round of applause for all the music teachers and community band leaders; the performances this year were astounding and especially encouraging were the new entries from some of the smaller towns and schools. This is the real music, played by people who call it 'playing' because they know that it is play!

Show starts tonight at 7:30, a mere $5 admission goes to support the festival and thereby encourage the schools to put in all this amazing effort; promises to be a great show for one and all!

Friday, 26 June 2009

2009 Ontario Volunteer Awards

Six members of the Owen Sound City Band were recipients of 2009 Ontario Volunteer Service Awards. The Awards presentation was held on June 26, 2009 at O.S.C.V.I. The following band members were recognized:

Doug Price, 10 years of service
Jackie Bonner, 15 years of service
Wayne Smith, 15 years of service
Dave Elliott, 10 years of service
Dave Armchuk, 10 years of service
Nancy Mashinter, 15 years of service.

Congratulations and thanks!

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

2008 Ontario Volunteer Awards

Six members of the Owen Sound City Band were recipients of 2008 Ontario Volunteer Service Awards. The Awards presentation was held on June 11, 2008 at O.S.C.V.I. The following band members were recognized:

Robert Bell, 40+ years of service
Gary Bergstra, 25 years of service
John Dickson, 30+ years of service
Shirley Dickson, 30+ years of service
Don Prowd, 30 years of service
Dave Skelton, 30+ years of service.

Congratulations and thanks!

Saturday, 9 June 2007

2007 Ontario Volunteer Awards

Seven members of the Owen Sound City Band were recipients of 2007 Ontario Volunteer Service Awards. The Awards presentation was held on June 7, 2007 at O.S.C.V.I. The following band members were recognized: