Band Festivals.
Announcements
- Please visit your Regional Page to find more information about the Beginning Band and Second Year Festivals planned in your area!
- The Beginning and Second Year Band Festivals will take place on either May 1st or May 10th, 2010.
- All Beginning and Second Year Band Festivals will take place within their Regional locations this year!
About
The MBDA Band Festivals were created in an effort to:
- Provide a challenging and rewarding band experience for first and second year band students;
- Provide an opportunity for first and second year band students to bring a positive attitude and a renewed enthusiasm back to their home band program; and
- Provide an opportunity for Minnesota beginning band directors to help promote enthusiasm and excellence within their band programs.
Festival students are nominated by their directors and will be accepted until openings are filled. The fee per student is $15, payable to MBDA, and this will be refunded if the band is full at the time the application is received.
Eight nominees will be accepted from each participating school. If there is more than one director in a school, each director can nominate five students from that building.
The four sites for May 2010 will be announced this school year:
Hosting Information
Festival Hosts are responsible for:
- securing a guest clinician/conductor
- securing section coaches
- purchasing/organizing a snack for students
- putting together folders of music for students
- creating a printed program
- setting up performance site and sectional rooms
- securing custodial help if needed
- Distributing printed music to directors after the event
- Hosts should be MBDA members. Pay for Festival Hosts is $150.
Guest Conductor Information
The guest conductors are responsible for:
- selecting an appropriate program for the festival (four or five pieces)
- forwarding titles/composers/publishers to Coordinator by March 1st
- working with percussion section coach during sectionals
- rehearsing the band
- conducting the concert
- Pay for clinicians is $250. Clinicians should be MBDA members.
Proposed Schedule for the Day
The tentative schedule for the day is as follows:
- 8:00-8:30 Registration
- 8:30-9:15 Band rehearsal
- 9:20-10:00 Sectionals
- 10:00-10:20 Snack
- 10:25-11:45 Band Rehearsal
- 12:00-12:20 Concert for parents
Other Information
The section coaches are responsible for handing out folders at the start of the sectional; for introducing the students to the music; and if time permits, for offering a short master class to the students. Section coaches are also to be available to help during rehearsals. Pay for section coaches is $50. All section coaches should be MBDA member.
Student or parent volunteers from the host school district may be helpful the day of the event by: assisting in registration as students arrive; guiding students to their sectional sites; serving and cleaning up after their snack; setting up and tearing down sectional rooms and band performance site.
Budget: The fee for participants is $15/student. Checks made out to "MBDA" must be sent in with nomination forms. If students are turned away because bands are full, checks will be mailed back to band directors.
Student Participation Numbers: To ensure that the festival participant fee collected covers all expenses for the festivals throughout the state, a minimum of 65 participants is necessary. If a site cannot attract 65 or more students, the festival will be cancelled and all checks returned to the directors of the nominated students.
Band directors, please print out the Beginning Band Festival Nomination Form and Second Year Band Festival Nomination Form and distribute them to your most deserving students. We will accept a maximum of eight students from each school (or in the case of schools that have more than one director, five students per director), and would like you to nominate students who show an enthusiasm for playing their instrument and who will represent your school well. Please remember to nominate our friends in the low brass section as well as those in the flute and percussion sections! The final deadline for receiving nominations is April 10th, but remember that we are accepting nominations on a first come, first serve basis!Please remember that in order to participate in this as well as other MBDA events, you must be a member in good standing of MBDA. This link is for an Online Registration Application.
You will receive confirmation for your students via e-mail after your registration has been received.
Remember: If you are the only director in the school, you can nominate eight students from that school. If there is more than one director in the building, each director can nominate five students from that building. If you teach in more than one building, you can nominate up to eight students from each building. Every director who nominates must be a MBDA member.
Send your nomination forms and registration fees to:
Geneva Fitzsimonds
MBDA BBF Stae Liason
SVMS
4725 South View Lane
Edina, MN 55424
You will receive confirmation for your students via e-mail after your registration has been received.
Remember: If you are the only director in the school, you can nominate eight students from that school. If there is more than one director in the building, each director can nominate five students from that building. If you teach in more than one building, you can nominate up to eight students from each building. Every director who nominates must be a MBDA member.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact Geneva Fitzsimonds at: genfitzsimonds@edina.k12.mn.us
You will also find on this website a letter to parents explaining this event that you can print and distribute to parents of nominated students.
Documents
2010 MBDA Beginning and Second Year Band Festivals
- Documents will be posted during the 2009-2010 school year.