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WALLACEBURG ARTS: Concert band celebrating 10 years with greatest hits concerts

What do you celebrate? 

People celebrate all manner of things, perhaps not all “important” events, but I think sometimes people simply look for a reason to have fun, so count me in. 

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By now, hopefully readers know that this season the Wallaceburg Concert Band is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and we want to celebrate! 

Our group has been looking forward to 2026 for a few years now. 

We are quite young in comparison to our friends in the Lambton Concert Band who are celebrating their 25th anniversary this season, and the Chatham Concert Band who will celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2027! 

Those are much more spectacular numbers than our piddly 10 years of existence, but what this group has accomplished in 10 short years is nothing short of stunning. 

Many will know the story of how and why we came to be which I will not re-hash, but I wish I had video tape of our inaugural meeting. 

I shared my vision before a crowd of largely former musicians I had taught who indicated a willingness to re-visit a skill they once plied back in their school days. 

In most cases, those potential musicians hadn’t touched an instrument or read one note of music notation in decades. Some were more than 40 years removed! 

We found some instruments, cobbled together a band of about 25 musicians and over the fall months of 2016 rehearsed a band that played some simple........

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