*** THE OLD ARIZONA BRASS BAND  ***

Re-creators of the 4TH CAVALRY REGIMENTAL BAND AT FORT LOWELL, ARIZONA TERRITORY, USA, 1884-90

(& of 1870s-1890s townie "cornet band") ...bringing the past into the present...

{An Educational Non-Profit 501C(3) Musical Organization}

http://oabb.homestead.com/

event & message phone: 520.990.6386           

 Schedule for the Old Arizona Brass Band, Tucson’s Historic 19th Century-style Brass Band           (revised 04/03/08 rk)

 

DATE

TIMES

EVENT

LOCATION

uniform

 

 

04/05/08

(Sat)

11:30AM-1:00PM

FREE

Presidio Festival

Sponsored by The Tucson Presidio Trust & Downtown Tucson Partnership 520.547.3342

Presidio Museum

Church Ave & Washington St

(west of YMCA)

 

Town-Red

(full band)

 

04/05/08

(Sat)

3:00-4:30PM

FREE

4th Ave Street Fair

(limited seating or

bring your own chair)

Main Stage North at 5th and Hoff

Town-Red

(full band)

 

04/09/08

Wednesday

Annual Business Meeting

& end of season party

(Private Event)

 

 

05/21/08

Wednesday

Last Townsend rehearsal

 

 

 

Around Memorial Day

2009

TBA

(Tentative)

Reburial Ceremony to honor 70 U.S. soldiers who died & were buried in Tucson 1866-1870's.

Southern Arizona Veterans' Memorial Cemetery

(Sierra Vista)

Cav-blue

(full band)

TBA = to be announced    Venue = all performances in Tucson area, unless otherwise noted.  Pioneer Ensemble = 4-7 person ensemble

 

Other fun events we’d love to go to:

(1) 06/13-15/08 – National Civil War Field Music School (at Pamplin Historical Park, Petersburg, Virginia)

(2) 08/1-3/08 -- 24th Annual Historic Brass Society Early Brass Festival (at Loyola in New Orleans)

(3) 2008 (date not set yet)  -- 3rd National Civil War Band Festival (somewhere in Mid-Atlantic region)

… for info on the 3rd National, contact The Federal City Brass Band federalcitybrassband@erols.com

 

To engage the services of the Old Arizona Brass Band or discuss enlistment in our august purposes, call John Prokop our band manager at (520) 529-2807. Other inquiries (+our CD “Music from the Western Frontier”), Please email oldazbb@yahoo.com