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Christmas Concert 2024
Hey Man, Christmas Swings
Christmas Concert 2025
Excerpt from A Christmas Finale
2025 Christmas Concert
Excerpt of A Celtic Christmas
The Kelowna City Concert Band had the honour of performing in the park for Remembrance Day. It was a privilege to stand with our community as we remembered and paid tribute to those who served, those who sacrificed, and those who continue to protect our freedoms. Lest we forget.
Remembrance Day 2025
North American Soundscapes Under the direction of our talented conductor Robert Payne, the Kelowna City Concert Band presents North American Soundscapes—a musical journey across the continent featuring beloved selections such as Shenandoah, Red River Valley and Prairie Songs.
2026 Kelowna City Concert Band Spring Concert Excerpts
Folk Songs From Somerset,” the third movement from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “English Folk Song Suite” is a classic march incorporating four traditional folk songs: “Blow Away The Morning Dew,” “High Germany,” “The Tree So High” and “John Barley’s Corn.” Using both 2/4 and 6/8 meters, Vaughan Williams has created a unique educational opportunity for ensembles to contrast duple and compound meter. Creatively adapted for the Build-A-Band series by master composer/arranger, Ed Huckeby.
Folk Song Suite No. 3: Folk Songs from Somerset
Folk Song Suite for Military Band
Suite of Old American Dances was inspired after the composer heard a performance by the Goldman Band in 1948. The original title was Electric Park, an amusement park Bennett went to while growing up in Kansas City. Each movement of the work is based on a dance from the beginning of the 20th Century. Suite of Old American Dances demonstrates that folk music can be both entertaining for listeners and musically substantive for performers. This rhythmically challenging piece is suitable for both high school and university ensembles, and select movements can work well for strong honor bands. Extended syncopated lines, frequently disjunct melodies, and parallel ninth and eleventh chords give this piece a ragtime sensibility that audiences generally enjoy.
Suite of Old American Dances
Suite of Old American Dances was inspired after the composer heard a performance by the Goldman Band in 1948. The original title was Electric Park, an amusement park Bennett went to while growing up in Kansas City. Each movement of the work is based on a dance from the beginning of the 20th Century. Suite of Old American Dances demonstrates that folk music can be both entertaining for listeners and musically substantive for performers. This rhythmically challenging piece is suitable for both high school and university ensembles, and select movements can work well for strong honor bands. Extended syncopated lines, frequently disjunct melodies, and parallel ninth and eleventh chords give this piece a ragtime sensibility that audiences generally enjoy. Although the title of this dance suggests that its roots lie in Scotland, the Schottische is actually a German variant of several Bohemian dances that later developed into the polka. The schottische features quick shifts from foot to foot and striking of the heel. These movements resemble the Scottish reel and may have inspired the name. Because the polka was at one time called the “Scottish Waltz,” it is also possible that this earlier dance inspired its namesake. Either way, the dance came to the United States by way of England when polka dancing became the rage among continental society in the 1840s. The music for the early schottische was usually written in 2/4 time, and many describe the dance as simply a slow polka.
Suite of Old American Dances: Schottische
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