LADNER BANDFEST - Sunday, June 8, 2008, AT MEMORIAL PARK, LADNER

The Fourth Annual Ladner Bandfest will be on Sunday June 8, 2008! We hope all bands are ready to return for another joyous festival of concert band music! Registration for 2008 is now complete and has been closed. 

Planning has already begun on the next festival.  Hold open the weekend of June 13 and 14, 2009. 

Family Day! Be sure to bring your family, your lawn chairs and your picnic baskets, and prepare to spend the entire day in Ladner! The Ladner Farm Market is just two blocks away on Sunday, with lots of shopping, crafts, art, meals, and snacks. There are many nearby restaurants and coffee shops, open on Saturday and Sunday.

 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, and other items.  All food or drink items, including bottled water, will be sold through their services.

Site and Equipment:The Ladner Bandfest will provide two covered stages. Each stage contains 40 music stands, 40-50 chairs, a drumset (bring own cymbals and snare if desired), a concert bass drum, timpani,  a PA system with one microphone, and a keyboard amp (also can be used for bass). A warmup/dressing building and a relatively secure storage area are also available. Bands should bring all other items needed. Feel free to contact other bands to share additional equipment.

Note: 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, Ladner Bandfest Committee and 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 two hours. If you have musicians or family members interested in helping us out for two hours during the course of the day.  Please fill out the on-line form so we can fit your schedule into our needs.  It is a lot of fun.

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, to perform immediately when the Show Stage band has 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. There is a designated time-slot, 2:20 to 2:40pm, 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.

Setup and Warmup:  Bands are invited to enter the Kinsmen House 60 minutes before start-time to change uniform and warm up instruments. Cases and coats can be left on the tables supplied.  Forty minutes prior to performance-time, band members should be ready to enter the appropriate stage, 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 provided. Playing longer than 40 minutes will negatively affect the schedule for all the remaining bands.

Printed Program  A printed program will be available, in which musicians and audience members will be able to read the schedule, sponsors, directors' names, hosts, band bios, etc.

 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, a $50 gift certificate from Matterhorn Music Repairs, plus an 8x10 Hugh Martell photograph.