Final Concert and End of the year information

I know it is hard to believe that it is that time already, but as we approach the end of May, it is important that we look at all of the up coming dates and get ready for the celebration of our successes and the craziness that is the end of the year.

May 24th is the cut off for our last round of sectionals for Concert Band.  

May 27th is our set up for the Final Concert at 7:00PM. As always, we will be needing your help for about 20 minutes.

May 28th will be the dress rehearsals throughout the day for our concert that evening.

May 28th. Final Concert Band Concert.  7:00PM gym - Doors open at 3:30PM

• Here you will be able to order your band FLASHDRIVE for $20 before and after the concert. The Band FLASHDRIVE contains photos and videos from both concerts and a few candids from throughout the year. It is our only fundraiser and all funds raised go directly back into the program. THE MINIMUM ORDER IS 100, SO WE MUST SELL AT LEAST 100.
• Students need to be here at 6:00PM
• This concert will be again webcast - LINK IS POSTED ON THE WEB SITE AND ALL OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS.

May 29th -- Dress Rehearsal for the Final Jazz concert through out the day.

May 29thst - Final Jazz Concert at 7:00PM in the theatre.

• Doors open at 4:00PM
• Students will need to be here at 6:00PM.
• This concert will be again webcast - LINK IS POSTED ON THE WEEB SITE AND ALL OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS.

June 3rd - sign-up sheets go up for Sr. Jazz Auditions. Auditions will take place from the 17th to the 21st.

June 6th - all music music/ folders and method books must be handed in by 3:30PM for sorting by the nines. All instruments that are not being used by students for auditions or Grad Band must also be turned in today.

June 5th - Final Self-Assessment Due - Everyone else follows the same format except Seniors. Sr.'s are to take their folder home this week and re-read all of the contents. Their final self assessment is of their entire 4 years at Westwood and encompass what it is, if anything, that they have accomplished and/or learned in their time here.

June 6th to the 28th - Grad Band Rehearsals - No auditions. Students are hand selected by Mr. Edwards.

June 10th - Grade 9 Sort AND ALL INSTRUMENTS MUST BE RETURNED TO MR. EDWARDS

June12th - Gr. 9 Clean.

June 17th - Last Official Day of Classes and some time this week will be the Gr. 9 Movie Night.

June 29th - All instruments go for repairs.

First week in September - Band FLASH DRIVES's are available for pick-up.

LIVE - Band Concerts this week

As you know we have always been on the cutting edge of technology here in the Westwood Band Program and this concert is no exception.

We have two up coming concerts for you this week.  

Concert Band on Tuesday night at 7:00 PM CST and 

Jazz Band on Wednesday night at 7:00 PM CST.

BOTH THESE CONCERTS WILL BE WEBCAST LIVE ON THE INTERNET FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE.

"Shut the Front Door!"

You can watch either night by clicking on the video below or watching on your device by clicking on the link from anywhere on the planet that there is wireless.

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Joint Concert with Westwood Community Band

This past Thursday, on a surprisingly hot evening in the Westwood theatre, our Sr. Jazz got a chance to share the stage with Ms. Ginny Helmer and the members of the Westwood Community Concert Band.  What a night!  The evening opened with Sr. Jazz taking the stage and sharing their project piece Minuano and their newest funk music- The Path.  These two selections will be the foundation of the band's performance in Ottawa at the Nationals in the middle of May.  After the dust had settled, the impressive Community Band took to the stage and settled in to share their fabulous music making.  Their opening number - Windjammer - paints a musical portrait of a tall ship gliding down the west coast of B.C.  For there the enthusiasm grew as the band teased us with a Fugue and a very relaxing piece entitled Air of Band.  To close out their portion of the show they played a Gershwin medley.  Super Fun!  And as if that was not enough, the members of Sr. Jazz joined the Community Band on stage for for an epic supergroup.  Together these fine musicians to the audience on a journey with their rendition of Gadget which Brough the audience immediately to their feet in ovation... a great recognition to the wonderful music that was made here this evening.  

FLOTA and Family Concert

What a whirl-wind week 
(how's that for alliteration).  We had two amazing nights of music celebration. First on April 8 all of the Arts community at Westwood came to Peter to perform at our anual Arts fundraiser call For the Love of the Arts or FLOTA.  Here Dancers, singers, visual artists and all kinds of performers entertained the packed house with fantastic moment after moment.

The next evening, we saw the invasion of the the little people as Sansome, Robert Browning and the choirs from Lincoln came together to celebrate the wonderful music making that takes place in the Westwood Family of Schools.

All of the bands performed outstandingly and there were even calls for an encore.  Hope the pictures capture some of the fun as both nights ended with the audience clapping along to Sr. Jazz as all of the performers danced to their rendition of Stevie Wonder's - Superstition.

(Apologies for not have any concert band pics, but could not conduct and hold the camera. (;

Brandon Jazz Festival 2019

Another successful tour to Brandon with Vocal Jazz: M and M's and Synchronicity along with the Westwood B.I.G. Band and L.T.J.O. From the formal dinner to the outstanding performances, this tour had it all.  Throw in a healthy dose of comedy and silliness and combine that with amazing concerts and glow bowling and you have the recipe for yet another stellar Westwood music event.

Optimist Jazz Festival

Yet again a great time was had by all at the Optimist Jazz Festival. What a season.... who knew we could perform without a drummer and still have a fantastic time at festival. Great bands.  Great kids.  Great time.  What more is there to say?

Optimist Band Festival

As the dust settles on another year at the Optimist Band festival, we can all be really proud of all three of our concert bands.  They all played their hearts out and truly impressed all of the judges whose comments highlighted our ensembles attention to detail and their mature presence both on and off the stage.  Clean-up Friday night went off without a hitch as we had many enthusiastic members of Symphonic Band pack up the 4 performing stages.  In the end, all of our ensembles were year again invited to represent Manitoba at the Nationals in Calgary in 2020. and that's super awesome!