SIXTH ANNUAL LADNER BANDFEST

SATURDAY/SUNDAY, JUNE 12/13, AT MEMORIAL PARK, LADNER

Chair Curt Jantzen cjband@telus.net

Ladner Bandfest #6 is approaching fast, on Saturday June 12 and Sunday June 13, 2010.  Twenty bands have registered, completely filling our schedule.  We are extremely pleased to have eighteen bands returning to perform at Bandfest #6. Additionally, two new bands are participating this year: the North Cascades Concert Band, from Bellingham, Washington, and the Vancouver Naval Veterans’ Band.  The North Cascades Band, playing at 2pm on Saturday, rehearses in Bellingham under the baton of Lylburn Layer.  The Naval Veteran’s Band is performing in honour of the 100^th anniversary of the Canadian Navy.  Be sure to come out at 10:20 Sunday morning to honour and cheer the Naval Band and help them celebrate this important anniversary of our Canadian Armed Forces!  To read about all the participating bands, please go to our excellent website at www.ladnerbandfest.org, updated constantly by Webmanager Ken Borrie. 

Organizational Structure and Goals: The Ladner Bandfest is organized by the Ladner Bandfest Committee, which is a sub-committee of the Delta Music Makers.  The committee is a group of dedicated volunteers who are all musicians in the Delta Music Makers Community Band.  The goal of the festival is to highlight the community band phenomenon and provide adult bands a venue to perform for each other. The camaraderie, networking, and musical enthusiasm that develop are important results of the event.

Family Day!  You are all invited to bring your family, your friends, and your lawn chairs to spend your day in Ladner!  We are expecting nice weather, but the stages are covered and the event will go ahead either way.  Audience members should bring lawn chairs, plus umbrellas, just in case.  Huge audience-tents will be available to escape the hot sun or inclement weather.

Performance Schedule: Performances will alternate on the two stages.  While a band is performing on the Delta Show Stage, another band will be setting up on the Gazebo, to begin performing immediately as the Show Stage band finishes.  The audience members will swivel chairs back and forth to face the appropriate stage.  Band Directors are asked to time their numbers for less than 40 minutes, including introductions, and to watch the clock while performing.  "Pushing the envelope" will not be looked upon kindly by the bands to follow.  Running late would affect the entire remainder of the day.

Please note: bands performing on the Showstage after 4pm (Maple Ridge, West Van, Royal City) may be faced with direct sunshine in their musicians’ eyes, so we would encourage you to be prepared with hats and sunglasses, as necessary.

Printed Program  A printed program will be available free of charge, in which musicians and audience will be able to read the schedule, sponsors, directors' names, hosts, band bios, etc.  Please note: businesses are welcome to purchase advertising in this program.  Contact Curt Jantzen cjband@telus.net or Patricia Hull, patriciahull@shaw.ca.

Bonus for Bands: For the $150 entry fee, each band will receive a 40-minute performance time, with appropriate warmup and storage facilities, a $100 certificate from Long and McQuade, and a $50 gift certificate from Matterhorn Music Repairs.

Secure Storage: Band members are invited to take advantage of the secure instrument storage during each day, free of charge.  This will be set up inside the Kinsmen Hall and supervised by volunteers.  It should be entirely safe, but please note that the Delta Music Makers, and the Ladner Bandfest, will not accept any liability in case of loss or damage.

Setup and Warmup:  Bands are invited to enter the Kinsmen House 60 minutes before start-time to change into uniform and warm up instruments. Cases and coats can be left on the tables labeled with your band’s name.  Forty minutes prior to performance-time, band members should be ready to enter the appropriate stage, just when the previous band departs. 

M.C.  At the exact beginning of your performance time, the MC will introduce your band using the three sentences submitted on the Registration Form. Following that introduction, bands are invited to introduce their own music selections, keeping in mind the 40-minute stage time.

Stage:  The stages will contain approximately 50 chairs, approximately 50 music stands, a keyboard/bass amp, a full drum set (bring your own cymbals and snare if desired), a concert bass drum, and a set of timpani.  Please contact each other to share chimes or other percussion.

Volunteers are needed!  The jobs are not onerous and can be learned quickly.  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 (available at http://www.ladnerbandfest.org), or email coordinator Ann Bates: batesema@shaw.ca

Food Service: A remarkable service club called the "Tsawwassen Order of Old Bastards" (TOOBS) will once again be setting up a tent and a grill to provide burgers, soft drinks, bottled water, and other items.  Additionally, popcorn and hot beverages will be available on site.

Sponsors:  The following sponsors are known at this time (listed alphabetically).  We ask that you and your band members support these businesses:

1.     Archetype Printing: Assistance with printed materials

2.     Bri-Tek Fire Protection Services Inc.: Signage and fire-extinguishers

3.     Corporation of Delta: partial-subsidies for facilities

4.     Delta Cable: Publicity

5.     Delta Parks, Recreation, and Culture: Facility rental and reader-board

6.     Delta Secondary School Music Department: Music stands, percussion equipment

7.     Envision Financial: Tent shelters and popcorn machine

8.     Knight Safety Ltd.: Assistance with festival signage

9.     Long and McQuade Musical Services: All amps and drum sets, plus $100 gift certificate for each band.

10.   Matterhorn Music Repairs: A $50 gift certificate for each band towards future repairs

11.   Marketwire: Media advertising

12.   Outdoor Broadcast Network: Outdoor advertising

13.   Seaquam Secondary School Music Department, Delta: Percussion equipment

14.   Thrifty Foods: Tent shelter and supplies

15.   Tsawwassen Order of Old Bastards: Food services, and donation towards expenses

Ladner Bandfest Committee, Curt Jantzen chair, cjband@telus.net