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The British Columbia Band Association (BCBA) is a non-profit organization serving community bands throughout the province of British Columbia in Canada. We seek to foster, promote, and encourage the establishment, growth, and development of band music in British Columbia through national, provincial, regional, and local programs, resources, and social activities. The BCBA currently has 117 members.  This is a Facebook Page, not a website.

Cascadia Wind Ensemble is a flourishing concert band in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The Cascadia Wind Ensemble welcomes adult and youth musicians who own their own instruments and want to play in a challenging and rewarding musical environment.

The Delta Concert Band, formed in October of 1964, is comprised of adult-aged amateur musicians from all over the lower mainland of British Columbia. Our repertoire includes a wide range of music mostly at the Grade 3 to 5 level. Concerts in recent years include: Delta Parks summer shows, the Ladner Bandfest, a Delta Special Olympics fundraiser, the Boundary Bay Airshow, St John Ambulance Annual Inspection, and collaborations with the Delta Choral Society and the Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir.

Delta Music Makers Community Band Society, known simply as the Delta Music Makers, is dedicated to giving adult intermediate band musicians the opportunity to perform music for their enjoyment and education under competent musical direction. The band offers a service to the community by performing music before the public and hospital shut-ins, as well as with other band groups in the Lower Mainland and abroad.

The Fraser Valley Community Winds is a community-based charity that comes together to contribute and build our musical skills, perform quality music, have fun, and contribute to community spirit through music! The FVCW is a registered charity as the Abbotsford Concert Band Society. We are proud to serve our community through music and dedicate ourselves to advancing appreciation of quality music, growing in musical skill, and reaching hearts of all ages. Our ensemble includes members from their early teens to late eighties, and range from people who like to keep up with their hobby to musicians with a career in the field.

Little Mountain Brass Band is a brass band ensemble from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. LMBB is a recreational, non-auditioned band that plays music arranged for British-style brass band. Instrumentation follows British brass band practice, with cornets, flugelhorn, Eb alto (tenor) horns, baritone horns, euphoniums, trombones, basses and percussion. However, the band has at times in the past included F horns and trumpets as well.

The Maple Ridge Concert Band (MRCB) is a community association made up of over 75 members of all ages and musical abilities between the Performance, Intermediate, and All Beginners Concert band groups. Our mission is to provide a friendly atmosphere for all our members. We strive to promote the performing arts and share our musical camaraderie and enthusiasm within our community and beyond.

We are a community band comprised of musicians from all over the Metro Vancouver area, and from all walks of life. For more than 30 years we have been putting a little music in the hearts of the people in our communities.

The Senior Band is a performance level band. The difficulty of the music is at the high school (grade 12) level and up. Admission to this band is based on ability, not age, so there is quite a variety of ages within the group. In addition to the Society’s annual concerts, the Senior Band plays in local festivals and community concerts 2 or 3 times per year.

Royal City Concert Band is a band of enthusiastic and motivated amateur musicians, established in 1987. Under the baton of Music Director Kris Covlin, we play an eclectic and ambitious blend of world class compositions, drawn from the best arrangements in the worlds of Pop and Rock, Jazz and Big-Band, Broadway Classics, Movies and Television, Contemporary and Traditional Band music, Classical Arrangements for wind, Canadian Folk, and Contemporary (that's right, and the stuff is awesome) and last, but certainly not least, some of the Best Marches Ever Written.

The Sea to Sky Wind Ensemble is a 50+ piece wind symphony led by our Music Director, Tak Maeda. The ensemble grew out of the former North Vancouver Alumni Band.  Established in 1987, 2022-2023 is our 35th season.

The South Fraser Community Band has been entertaining the masses from beautiful British Columbia, Canada since 1989. We are an intermediate level band and a non-profit society of music lovers, dedicated to interacting with the South Fraser community through music! Our aim is to nurture musical performance talents and the enjoyment of music by everyone in our community by performing music with a broadly based appeal. We perform where the people are - in parks, schools, nursing homes, malls, anything goes! We provide a wide range of music, including classics, popular show tunes, and more.

We are a community band whose members have a wide variety of experience levels ranging from "developing" to professional. Our repertoire generally ranges from level 3 to 5, with performance material tending to average level 3.5 in difficulty. If you can only play the quarter notes you're still welcome, but we have material to challenge all players.

We are an intermediate level adult community concert band. We play a wide variety of genres from classical to jazz to show tunes to contemporary. Our mission is to provide an opportunity for adult amateur musicians (18+) to play, practice and perform in a friendly and supportive environment.

Links and resources for the amateur bandsman and/or orchestral musician in Canada. This page is a list of website links. For any community group, you should be able to find contact information on their website.

In January 2005, Professor Andrew Homzy of Concordia University asked if anyone was up to the job of compiling a list of Ellington-related websites. David Palmquist thought he'd give it a try. It has since grown to include a cross-referenced list of Ellington CDs, to help purchasers avoid buying the same recordings on different CDs, and The Dooji Collection, a comprehensive and growing collection of Ellington record labels.