1) September 2008 Concert Calendar
2) Discounted Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Tickets
3) Three Rivers Community Band Festival accepts applications to perform
4) Newsletter Requests

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1) September 2008 Concerts in Southwestern Pennsylvania

Please visit: http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net/calendar.html
for links to web pages, updates, and future concerts.

September 2008:
Sat, 13 8pm
Allegheny Brass Band
McCandless Township Community Day

Sun, 14 1pm
Kiski Valley Community Band
Freeport Gazebo

Sat,20 4pm
Armstrong Concert Band
Grace Brethren Church, West Kittanning

Thu, 25 6pm
Aeolian Winds of Pittsburgh
National Aviary

Sat, 27 11am
Blairsville Community Concert Band
Blue Spruce Park, Covered Bridge Festival

Sat, 27 4:30pm
Kiski Valley Community Band
Owens Grove Apollo

Sun, 28 2pm
Somerset County Community Band
Whiskey Rebellion, Berlin


If you have a concert to be listed in the calendar, please send email
to: calendar@... with the subject "Concert
Calendar"

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2) Discounted Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Tickets

Discount tickets to The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Save these Dates - The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra welcomes
Southwestern PA Band Partner members! Join us Oct. 31- Nov 2, 2008 for
Strauss' Alpine Symphony, and December 5 -6, 2008 for Bernstein's West
Side Story Symphonic Dances, string trio Time for Three and Copland's
Symphony No 3. Southwestern PA Band Partner members enjoy discounted
tickets and personalized service through Marianne Haffey - call
412.393.3320 or mhaffey@... for further information
on these and any other PSO/Heinz Hall performances. Just mention "Band
Partners"!

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3) Three Rivers Community Band Festival

The 6th Three Rivers Community Band Festival will be held on May 2, 2009.

http://www.ewsb.org/festival

There is information available at their web site regarding
applications to perform at the 2009 Festival.

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4) Newsletter Requests

Deadline for Fall Newsletter due out October 1st is September 20th.

Band Profiles
13 bands in our region have been profiled in our newsletter, that is
roughly half of our groups. We would like to profile the rest in
future newsletters. If your band has not yet been profiled and would
like to be, please contact newsletter@ swpabandpartners.pghfree.net
with the subject of your message "SWPABP: Profile in Newsletter"

New Music Corner
Are there any new pieces your group has played that think others would
be interested in. Please let us know and we will start including the
names of the pieces in this quarterly newsletter. A brief description
of the piece would be helpful. Please email
newsletter@ swpabandpartners.pghfree.net with the subject
"SWPABP: Music Suggestion for Newsletter"


Articles
We welcome article submissions from anyone on any topic pertaining to
community bands and community musicians. If you are interested in
writing and article or have one you would like to submit to the
newsletter, please email newsletter@ swpabandpartners.pghfree.net with
subject "SWPABP: Article for newsletter"

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Sarah McElfresh
Southwestern Pennsylvania Band Partners
http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net
info@...