Charlottesville Municipal Band

After more than a year without music, the Charlottesville Municipal Band announces it 99^th Summer Season of outdoor concerts. All programs will be FREE and open to the public. Concert goers will be asked to bring blankets or lawn chairs and sit in pods socially distanced. Please check back at this website regularly for information about each concert.

• Sunday, 7/11, 3:30pm – Claudius Crozet Park
• Tuesday, 7/20, 7:30pm – PVCC Dickinson Parking Lot
• Tuesday, 8/3, 7:30pm – The Center at Belvedere
• Tuesday, 8/17, 7:30pm – Scottsville, Site TBA
• Tuesday, 8/31, 7:30pm – TBA

The Charlottesville Municipal Band is presently not rehearsing or performing as a full ensemble because of COVID-19. However, many of our small ensembles are available for small socially distanced outdoor concerts based on the current state and national guidelines. Our brass quintet, clarinet ensemble, French horn ensemble, Rivanna Winds Dixieland Band, and trombone ensemble played thirty-six programs for more than 1200 people last year in socially distanced settings. Can we play for you in 2021? For more information, please email municipalband@embarqmail.com.

The Charlottesville Municipal Band will celebrate a century of music making as the Soundtrack of Central Virginia in 2022. The band would like to share the celebration by inviting composes to write a sixty-second fanfare, Grade 4–5 level, for full symphonic band. The band will select ten works to be performed from those submitted — one to open each concert of the Centennial Season. Composers of the selected works will receive a $250.00 prize and the selected fanfares will also be included on a Centennial CD and the band’s YouTube site along with a biography of each composer. The fanfare remains the property of the composer, but the band retains the right to perform any of the selected works at any time. A complete score and set of parts must be submitted by October 1, 2021. Compositions not selected will be returned to the composer.

Questions should be submitted to Stephen Layman, Music Director at slayman2528@comcast.net.