Event: Oro Valley, AZ - On Friday, November 14, 2008 the Greater Oro Valley Arts Council will present the Old Arizona Brass Band in concert at CDO Baptist Church, featuring music of the Western Frontier!

Enjoy an evening of music featuring a variety of 19th Century National Airs, Quicksteps, Galops, Marches,Waltzes, Operatic Potpourri's, Overtures, Rags, including a number of vocal numbers featuring members of the band. You will be taken on a narrated journey through history about the music, the composers, and other historical information about the period of the music.

CONCERT DETAILS

Friday, November 14, 2008

Canyon Del Oro Baptist Church

9200 N Oracle Rd

7pm

TICKETS ONLY $10

Call 797-3959 to reserve seats today!The Old Arizona Brass Band (Tucson's Historic Brass Band) was founded in Fall of 1996 (first performance early 1997) by Ray Hicks, our long-time bandmaster, friend & mentor to provide a living representation of the military and civilian bands that performed throughout Arizona during the period 1872 to 1912. Our music, uniforms, and instrumentation reflect a transitional point between the all brass "over the shoulder" instrumentation of the Civil War years and the shift to primarily bell-front brass & expanded mix of reed and brass instruments of the modern day concert band. Our instrumention may look more familiar to moderns than a Civil War band, but our frontier sound emphasizing Eb voices in cornet, alto horn, tuba, ( & even clarinet on occasion) probably won't. (Not to mention the oldtimers' love for oompah, snap & military snare that crops up in the strangest places...) When you see & hear the Old Arizona Brass Band, you experience the real music of the military and town bands of the western frontier.

Mostly we stick close to home, Tucson, Arizona, but darned if we don't show up from time to time elsewhere in Arizona & New Mexico as well. You've probably seen us at the 4th Avenue Street Fair, the annual "Civil War in the Southwest" at Picacho Peak State Park, or beside the Ft. Lowell Museum during February's Reunon De El Fuerte. ...Not to mention, recent forays down Tombstone way, at the ranch in nearby Colossal Cave Park, or breaking forth in melody beside Engine #1673 at the restored railroad depot in downtown Tucson (the venerable Old Pueblo). Basically any chance to perform mid to late 19th-century Americana scored for brass band is our meat & potatoes.

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