Red
Cedar Festival
of Community Bands
Participating Bands and Festival events:
The 13th
Annual Red Cedar Festival of Community Bands is a one day event that brings
together adult community bands from across the state of Michigan and Ontario.
The 2008 event is scheduled for Saturday, February 23th at Okemos (MI) High
School and will be hosted by the Meridian Community Band.
Education is the emphasis of the Festival. Four nationally
recognized clinicians critically evaluate each band's forty-minute public
concert. Following the performance each band will receive a thirty-minute educational
clinic with one of the clinicians. Musicians and conductors alike agree that
this has been a very useful tool for improving musicianship and performance
techniques.
Instrumental master classes, taught by
university-level specialists, are offered as a supplement to the ensemble
clinic. Band networking and workshops are in the planning stages.
Conceptual development of the Red Cedar Festival of
Community Bands was done jointly by Carolyn J. Sherrill,
Robert Copeland, and Dana B. Swanson.
Red Cedar Festival of Community
Bands logo created by:
Kathryn Darnell Calligraphy & Illustration
210 Abbott Rd. Suite 40
East Lansing, MI 48823
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