🎶 We’re back! 🎶

The Vancouver Rainbow Concert Band kicks off our new season with our first rehearsal on Thursday, September 11 at 7:15 PM — and you’re invited!

📍 Gordon Neighbourhood House
1019 Broughton Street, Vancouver

Whether you’re a returning member or a new face interested in joining a fun, inclusive concert band, we’d love to see you there. 🌈

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We are looking for percussionists to join our vibrant community band!
Come and be part of the rhythm that drives our band!

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DO YOU PLAY AN INSTRUMENT BUT DON’T HAVE ONE?
WE HAVE INSTRUMENTS FOR YOU! 🎷🎺🎶

Instruments available:
🎷 Alto Sax | 🎶 Flute | 🎼 Clarinet | 🎵 Piccolo
🎺 Trumpet | 🎷 E♭ Baritone | 🎺 Trombone
🎶 Bass Clarinet or Bassoon

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If you love making music and want to be part of a welcoming and inclusive group, we’d love to have you. No matter your experience level, all are welcome.

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Now Practicing in the
West End!

 

Thursdays, 7:15–9:45 PM
📍 Gordon Neighbourhood House
1019 Broughton Street

 

 

Please arrive by 7:00pm to help set up and be ready to play at 7:15pm.

 

Please be familiar with the Official COVID-19 Practice Protocol – Rainbow Concert Band.

 

Please bring your own music stand, instrument and water bottle. Chairs are provided.

 

If you cannot find us, please text Kaden at 778-877-5547.

 

Visitors are always welcome!

 

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We are always looking for new members so if you play a woodwind, brass, or percussion instrument and can read music, we would love to hear from you. We welcome instrumentalists of all ages and abilities with no audition required.

Any concert band instruments are always welcome – we’d love to hear from you. We invite you to come out to a Rehearsal and either sit in and play with the band or listen and have a chance to chat with current band members.

We are also on the lookout for volunteers interested in other roles, both musical and behind the scenes. Contact us for more information!

Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered, Bisexual, Queer, Queer-friendly and Allied people only please. We currently have a diverse and welcoming group of musicians in our band. While our membership is primarily Queer, gay, lesbian, and bisexual we welcome people of all genders and orientations.

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Membership Dues and Benefits

Being an active playing and paying member of the Rainbow Concert Band is one way you can support the band, and it comes with several benefits. Your membership dues help to pay our operating expenses, such as rehearsal space rental, new music, and instrument upkeep and repair, as well as administrative costs. If you are a fully paid up member of the Rainbow Concert Band you also get to vote at the Annual General Meeting and help to decide the path that the Band follows each year.

Membership Dues are $240 yearly (from September 1 to August 31), or $80 per Season. We have three Seasons a year. Our Fall Season is from September to December, our Spring season is from January to May, and the Pride Season is from June to August and includes all pride activities.

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Subsidies

For members who are students, retired, underemployed or who are otherwise unable to pay the full membership dues, full/partial dues subsidies are available in exchange for participation in extra volunteering efforts throughout the year, including fundraising, posting flyers for concerts, administrative tasks (music library filing, band room cleanup), and anything else you can think of.