Family Weekend!  Be sure to bring your family, your lawn chairs and your picnic baskets, and prepare to spend the entire day in Ladner!  Burgers, snacks, and drinks are available at Memorial Park, thanks to the service club TOOB.  The Ladner Village Market is just two blocks away on the Sunday.

Site and Equipment  The Ladner Bandfest will provide two covered stages.  Each stage contains 40-50 music stands, 40-50 chairs, a drumset provided by Long and McQuade, a PA system with one microphone, 3 timpani (thanks to Seaquam and Delta Secondary Schools), and a keyboard amp which can also can be used for bass.  Bands should bring all other items needed.  Feel free to contact other bands to share additional equipment.

Dressing Room & Storage  A warmup/dressing building and supervised storage area are available in the Kinsmen Hall.  The ticketed storage area will be guarded at all times throughout the hours of the Ladner Bandfest.  All reasonable care will be taken to ensure the safety of checked items, but the host group, the Delta Music Makers, can accept no legal responsibility should an item go missing.  All items must be removed by 5:30pm on Sunday.

Volunteers  Volunteers are needed!  The jobs are not onerous and can be learned quickly.  The shifts are approximately two hours.  If you have musicians or family members interested in helping us out for two hours during the course of the day, please go to our website and fill out the online Volunteer Application, or email coordinator Ann Bates: batesema@axionet.com

Schedule  Bands will alternate on the two stages.  In other words, while a band is performing on the Delta Show Stage, another band will be setting up on the Gazebo in order to perform immediately when the current band finished.  The audience will swivel their chairs back and forth to face the appropriate stage.  Bands are asked to depart the stage in 10 minutes or less following their performance, in order to allow 30-minute setup time for the next group.  Groups may use the Kinsmen Hall for preparation and storage.  Volunteer stage-hands will assist your group with minor staging changes. There is a designated time-slot, 2:20 to 2:40 pm Sunday, for presentations by the sponsors, and a welcome by the Mayor.  All sponsors and bands may wish to have a representative available at this time.

Note: Bands should be ready to take the stage as soon as the previous band departs.  All performances must start on time and end within the 40 minutes allowed.  The MC will introduce your band at the exact designated start time, and read the short MC notes you provide below.  Please time your program, including announcements!