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Welcome to the South Shore Band’s home on the web!
*** Our Annual Holiday Concert is Friday, December 5th at Bernstein IS7, Huguenot Ave & Hylan Blvd. 8PM *** The 11/26 SI Advance article about our band may have implied an incorrect date. We hope to see you on 12/5!
The South Shore Band is a volunteer adult community band based in Staten Island,
N.Y. New members are always invited to join.
Our members range in age from high school students to working
people to retirees. Many musicians who had long been away from
active playing find the South Shore Band an ideal way to
reacquaint themselves with active playing. All of our members
find the band to be a relaxing way to continue in the enjoyment
of playing. We now have over 40 active members.
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Our mission: "To provide a supportive and inspiring
community band environment where musicians can share in
the growth of musical expression, performance, and service
to the community".
The South Shore Band offers service to our local communities through concerts, parades, performing at civic events...and other occasions where
we can deepen the general public's appreciation for live
performance and instill a greater pride in our community.
The Band is under the direction of James De Francesco. Mr. De Francesco joined the Band in 1987, and was appointed Associate Conductor. Since 1989 Mr. De Francesco has been Conductor and Music Director for our growing community group.
Rehearsals are held every Monday evening at 8 P.M. in the Bethel
United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 7033 Amboy Road (at Bethel Ave.), Tottenville (one block south of Page Ave and Amboy Rd).
We continue to rehearse throughout the summer time as well. For more information please contact Tom Doty, Band President at 718-948-0688 or via email.
New members interested in joining are invited to visit us at
any weekly Monday evening rehearsal.
Click on "Schedule of Events" within our site to learn more about upcoming appearances for the Band.
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Site Last Updated
9/18/2008 |
- The South Shore Band welcomed Ann
Erickson returning to our French Horn Section on
June 18, 2007, Stu Seiderman to our
Tenor Sax Section on July 2, 2007, Cathy
Cannizzaro to our Trumpet Section on September 24,
2007, Theresa Esposito to our flute section
on October 29, 2007, Joe Negri to our
Baritone Horn section on January 7, 2008, Roman
Chizmik to our Clarinet Section on March 31, 2008, Don Albano to our Alto Sax Section on April
14, 2008, Dave Seebaugh returning to our
Trombone Section on May 19, 2008, Hillary Klein to our Flute Section on August 4, 2008, Alex Morano to our Clarinet Section on August 4, 2008, Laura Dunlap to our French Horn section on Nov 3, 2008, and Patty Moses returning to our Clarinet Section on Nov. 10, 2008. We are always excited to welcome new and returning members to our community band family. We still have space for more new people so come on down to visit with us and learn more about our community band.
- Check out our Picture Gallery for photos of our
2006 performance at the Richmond County Fair!
- We thank the American Express Foundation for
their continued generous support of our community band and our
programs through their Global Volunteer Action Fund
Award Program.
- To get a sense of the music that we are
currently rehearsing you can click on “Folder Music List” to view
the content of our rehearsal
folders. This music list is updated regularly as
music is added to our folders as we progress in
various concert performance preparations (note:
parade/march book music is not included in this
listing).
- New members are welcome in all sections. We are in particular need for added members to the following sections: Trombone,
Baritone Horn, Tuba, French Horn, Bassoon,
and Oboe.
- You can
click on “Schedule of Events”
for information regarding 2009 & 2008 confirmed scheduling
and appearance dates as well as last years (2007) complete
schedule. The scheduling
process is always quite active with many
of our events being ongoing commitments year after
year. If you are
interested in having the band perform please contact
us early as our calendar of events that we are able
to accept fills quickly.
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