The Whitby Brass Band

This year we have created a performance calendar brochure to promote our concerts. You can view, print, and download the brochure by clicking on the image below.

We had a very successful Christmas concert again this year. The O’Neill choir was brilliant as usual and the audience enjoyed a great concert! We hope to see everyone back next year.

Thanks to our Christmas Concert Program Sponsors for 2009!
Click on the images to visit their websites where applicable.

Thanks to the Trillium foundation, the band has had a trailer for the last year and a half. We use the trailer to haul our percussion to jobs and this past weekend to haul instruments to the St. Catharines Grape and Wine Parade.

The Trailer Before Graphics (BG)

The trailer was given a face lift last week, as we had our friends at Sign Design install graphics on the sides and back of the trailer.

The back of the trailer lists our upcoming concerts and events, while the sides display our name, web address, location, and pictures of the band.

The Trailer After Graphics (AG)

The graphics and concert dates will help to promote the band every time we take the trailer to one of our jobs.

Thanks to everyone involved, including:

Brian and Phil
and Dave, Chris and the installers at Sign Design

The band participated in the St. Catharines Grade and Wine Festival Parade again this year. The senior and Junior band worked together to march and play in the annual event.

The Band has a little practice before the parade starts

The Grape and Wine Festival Parade is one of the biggest parades in Canada and is televised nationally.

The instruments have a little rest before the hard work ahead..

It’s an early start on parade day, as our bus leaves Whitby at 7:00am. The weather forecast was not good for the parade, with rain being predicted from noon onwards.
Mother nature smiled on us though, and it actually turned out nice and other than a few sprinkles on the way to St. Catharines, we didn’t get any rain throughout the day.

The band relaxes as we wait for the parade to start

The St. Catharines parade is a fun one to march in, because the parade route is packed with spectators from start to finish. With the crown urging us on, the 4km of marching doesn’t seem so long…

The band held its annual Audience Appreciation concert and solo contest on Thursday Feb. 26th.

As always, the soloists did a fine job, and the audience was fully entertained!

People attending this free concert were asked to donate non-perishable food for donation to the Salvation Army in Whitby. The audience was very generous and we received a full truck load of food. Thanks to everyone for helping those less fortunate!

The solo contest results:

Taking third place this year was Phil Crossley, playing “The Lazy Trumpeter” on Baritone.

Second place went to the ever lyrical Mhairi Holmer for her rendition of “Over the Rainbow”.

First place this year went to the big man himself, Gerry Murphy. He played his own arrangement of Czardas on Eb Bass (while hopping on one leg and humming! It was a challenging piece and Gerry played it with his usual good humour and entertaining style!

Congratulations to all participants!

Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant

The Whitby Brass Band was a proud
recipient of a grant of $57,900 from the Ontario Trillium
Foundation in the spring of 2008.