East Bay Summer Wind Ensemble

David M. Marshall	President and Director
Carrie Ann Marshall	Vice-President
Manuel Marshall Jr.	Treasurer
Andrew S. Arcello	Director of The East Bay Summer Chorus

Lori J. Anderson	Director of The East Bay Summer String Ensemble
Marcella Goddu & Sara Goddu	Registration Coordinators
Sue Halaburda	Librarian (EBSWE / EBSYE)

Celebrating 31 Years of Musical Excellence

Please visit the MULTIMEDIA PAGE for sound clips and the PICTURES PAGES for photos of the 2011 Season!!!

I hope all has been going well for you since last summer! Believe it or not, it is that time of year again as The East Bay Summer Wind Ensemble is beginning rehearsals for its 36^th Summer Season of music. We will continue to rehearse on the stage at Somerset High School in Somerset, Massachusetts where I am the Director of Bands. The space has worked quite well for us and the acoustics are outstanding. In addition, we have lots of percussion equipment at our disposal and an entire auditorium of seats for visitors to sit down, listen in and for you to set-up your equipment in. Our first rehearsal of the season will take place on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 from 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. on the stage at Somerset High. Please see the directions on the back of this letter to get to the school. Parking is available in the teachers’ lot adjacent to the south (Auditorium) entrance to the school. Additional updates will be made available at www.ebswe.org throughout the season and remember to join the forum to be able to ask questions and converse online with other EBSWE members regarding the ensemble. Additionally, pictures and performance recordings from previous seasons are on-line as well.

Again this year, in order to cut down on the amount of time that registration sets us back at the first rehearsals, I am going to offer a pre-registration option. Attached to this letter is a form that you can send back to me to pre-register for the season. The registration fee this year will be $35 and you can pre-purchase EBSWE Folios ($20) and Performance Polo Shirts ($30) as well. Please remember that you still can register at the first rehearsal and you will have the first two rehearsals in which you can order your folio and polo. With this option however, I foresee us spending less time on logistics and more time on rehearsing as our first concert will be at the Bristol 4^th of July Concert Series on Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. More information regarding (1) The Youth Ensemble, (2) Trailer Advertisement Placard Flyers and (3) the East Bay Summer Chorus if I have a current email address for you on record! Please review that information before our first rehearsal!

I would also like to extend an invitation to any of you that are interested in helping out the The East Bay Summer Youth Ensemble by performing with and assisting the group at rehearsals and performances. Many members perform with the group on secondary instruments as a way to enhance their music skills. No additional fee is charged for this participation, so if you are interested in joining us, please let me know at the first EBSWE rehearsal as the youth group does not begin rehearsing until the next week.

Additionally, we will once again be offering advertisement space on our trailer. We are getting closer to paying off the total purchase of the trailer and I would also like to build the EBSWE library and purchase equipment to be owned by the organization in the future. This is one of the ways I can foresee these kinds of things happening. Attached to this email is our Trailer Advertisement Placard Flyer. If you have any questions regarding this fundraiser and know anyone that is interested, please feel free to contact me!

Finally, I am also very happy to announce that once again The East Bay Summer Chorus will be rehearsing here at Somerset High School! Last year the group had a fabulous second season and is looking for more members to join them for their third season. This year, Mr. Andrew S. Arcello aarcello1@gmail.com will be directing the ensemble. I believe that a large following of high school and community singers will be interested in the group. Rehearsals for the EBSC also take place on the stage/auditorium at Somerset High School, but on Thursday evenings from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. and have already commenced. We hope to have the same diversity in the chorus that we boast with EBSWE in that its membership will consist of vocalists of all ages and backgrounds! The registration fee for the group is $35, but will be reduced to $20 for active EBSWE members that are interested in performing with both groups!

I am extremely excited to see you all again for what promises to be a very exciting and memorable season. Please call me at the above number or send me an email at marshalld@sbregional.org (This is a new email account that I will be using beginning in July as Somerset and Berkley have now regionalized to become Somerset Berkley Regional High School and... a new building will be built in a few years!) if you have any questions or concerns regarding the ensemble or the season. Enjoy your spring and we will see you on May 25^th!

Rehearsals take place on Wednesday Evenings during the summer from 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. beginning May 25^th, 2011 at

(MEMBERS are Adults, College Students and RIMEA All-State / SEMMEA District Caliber Musicians)

High School Students should contact David M. Marshall, Director at marshalld@sbregional.org for an audition time.

Thank you J.R. Sign Shop for a great job designing & printing and Mr. Butch Guertin for a great job with the installation!

Thank you to our new Trailer Sponsors: The Somerset Friends of Music and Happy Feet Pre-School! A special thanks to Steve St. Ours for helping us secure these trailer sponsors!

The East Bay Summer Youth Ensemble

The East Bay Summer String Ensemble

Lori Anderson - Director

The East Bay Summer Wind Ensemble

David M. Marshall - Director

Admission for the concert is FREE, but donations to help support

After an afternoon of searching the old offices of the East Bay Association for the Arts (which is located in the basement of Lt. Col. Grimo's mother's basement in Bristol), Lt. Col. Grimo and I found decades worth of pictures, programs, instruments, equipment and records associated with the many ensembles that made up the E.B.A.A. during the late 1970's and early 1980's. These priceless historical items are now on display here on our web-site. I hope that after reviewing our past, we have found a new direction for our ensemble's future. This legacy of community music that has survived 3 decades, thanks to the efforts of our past directors, and it is my hope that it will continue to expand and evolve. Many new ideas will be explored, concert venues scheduled, guest artists invited to join us and ensembles created or reinstated over the next few years. Stay tuned to this site throughout the upcoming months for updates as to our direction and progress! The future holds no bounds!

FEATURED PAGES: Please visit our History Page for a more expanded description of the ensemble's past as well as our Pictures Page and Multimedia Page for an extraordinary amount of photographs and audio files from our past!

"Forward March"

The Interpretation and Understanding of a March

by Lt. Col. Steven Grimo

Mission Statement: To provide community musicians (amateur, student and professional) with a quality summer music experience while providing first-rate traditional and contemporary band music performances to neighboring communities.

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