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..??

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"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!

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 ...

Bill Parker's 'Meet the Band'

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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."

Caroling in the Downtown for the OSDIA

Our intrepid photographer John Cowper sends us this photo essay from last Sunday's caroling in the downtown for the Owen Sound Downtown Improvement Area. Set with a book of old favourites in our lyres, members of the City Band gathered at the town hall and then wandered about from shop to shop to ring in the Christmas Cheer (scoring a few cookies along the way! :)

If you missed us last Sunday, you can catch us at the Tom Thompson tomorrow at quarter to six when we kick off the Owen Sound Festival of Northern Lights (lots of music, food, good cheer and fireworks!) and then again Saturday Morning for the Owen Sound Kiwanis Christmas Parade!

And as an added bonus, and Added Bonus Track!  A free mp3 (or two) recorded during our rehearsals for the Sunday Walk, featuring our semi-conductor Julia 

Beautiful Saviour by Owen Sound City Band

Deck The Halls by Owen Sound City Band