Are you operating a small business in the Port/Hastings area?

Can we help promote your business by carrying your message to members of the Band and the Public?

On Sept 12th a souvenir programme will be available to audiences at the Glasshouse concert by the Senior Concert Band and Lane Cove Concert Band. We would like you to join with other Players or Parents of Players to sponsor a business card sized advertisement in the programme. For $20 you will receive an advertisement such as the sample below.

These ads will also be lodged in our "Businesses of the Band" page on our website at no cost; www.pmhmb.org

Please contact the Secretary 0428 257 774 by Wednesday, Sept 1st

“In Concert”

Our Senior Concert Band and Lane Cove Concert Band
When: Sunday, September 12th at 1pm.
Where: At the Glasshouse.
Bookings: From the Glasshouse Box Office Online at www.glasshouse.org.au

Or phone bookings on 6581 8888. Debit/Credit Card facilities available.

Ticket Prices:

For the Public; Adults $22, Concession $18, Child (U16) $12, Family $50, with each additional child $5, Groups of 10+ $15 each
Band Players’ Tickets at $10 flat, for close family and extended family. (Brothers, sisters, mums, dads, partners, grandparents, uncles, aunts & cousins.)
(This is for players of all units; Blue Note, New Notes, AILP, Young Guns & Hilaootin’, as well as players from the Senior Concert Band.)

All players’ and players’ family Tickets, will be sold ONLY through the Band Office.

Senior Concert Band, Concert Ticket Sales Special Effort.

Players in the Senior Concert Band will be asked to make a special effort to sell at least four individual tickets, or one family ticket, to friends, associates or neighbours. This effort could see another 140 seats filled and ensure a full house for the performance.
You will be asked to target ‘new’ people, those who would be unlikely to otherwise attend. These ‘new’ people sales will help grow our audience generally.
These tickets will be at regular price, less a 10% discount, this to help SCB members sell these tickets.
The Secretary (Production Manager) will operate a coupon system. This system will allow these discount sales to be made without risking the loss of any tickets. When players have made a sale(s) they return the coupon butt and the money, and will be given the tickets for delivery to the purchasers.
We would also like a few members to help hand out our new ‘Friends of the Band’ leaflets at the concert. If you are available to help, please see either Glen or Greg.

The Port Macquarie Salvation Army will be hosting a weekend of music on 28 - 29 August. Guest band for this weekend will be the Salvation Army Sydney Veterans band.
This band is a brass band made up of 40 retired men who have formed this band. If you are a lover of brass band music and stirring marches, then you will enjoy the weekend.
The Veterans band will perform a free concert on Saturday night 28th Aug at 7.00pm at the citadel 110 Lord Street Port Macquarie, and again on Sunday 29th Aug at 2.00pm as a combined band with the Port Macquarie Salvation Army Band (75 musicians) on stage.

We will be having another Freddo Frog fundraiser to commence in the last week of August. Boxes of Freddos to sell will be available to pick up at your relevant band rehearsal from 31 August.

The band will be providing the BBQ at Bunnings on Saturday 18th September. This will again be a great opportunity to raise some much needed money for the replacement of some of our small instruments.
We will need volunteers from all band units to assist on the day from 9am to 4pm. Could all those who would like to help on the day please send email the Treasurer, Glen, treasurer@pmhmb.org or see him at the band office on Tues evening or Wed afternoon. Just tell us if you can help out.
We will need cooks, people to serve & sell drinks and people to handle the money. The more volunteers we get the easier it will be on all as we can limit the time each volunteer needs to be ‘on duty’. We would like to have enough people to be able to have a ‘morning shift’ and an ‘afternoon shift’ of 3 to 4 hours each.

We have now received a surge in items for the Port Band Garage Sale in August with a further 30 or so items promised from BNE and NN. Even our Secretary is having a monster clean-out. Could be lots of pens and staplers For Sale!!!
OCOM leaders are asked to canvas your unit to add to the item count. If you do not have any used items to donate consider donating a small new item or appliance that we can sell. Doesn’t matter what it is. This sale will raise some extra funds to go to by new small instruments to replace some in our hire pool that are well due final retirement!
If you have any larger items you would like to donate (eg furniture) could you please hold on to them until closer to the date. All smaller items can be stored in the Benjamin Room at the hall.
The tentative date for this fundraiser will be October 23rd – stay tuned for confirmation!
The venue for the garage sale will be at The Band Hall.
If you are also available to help on this day, with the set up before the event, and helping run the day, please contact Glen on the email below.
For more info on this event, please contact either Greg (secretary@pmhmb.org) or Glen (treasurer@pmhmb.org).

24th August 2010.

Senior Band:

A message from Glenn - Only 3 more rehearsals before the concert. Try to make all of them. The next 2 will be normal times and the 3rd (Sep 7) will be
Concert Band 6.30 - 8.00 and Big Band from 8.00 - 8.45. Could I ask all players to switch off mobile phones in rehearsals. The only exceptions
should be emergency or work related needs. I find it very distracting when a phone rings or someone is texting in rehearsals, so if you want the best out of me as a director you need to provide me with a distraction-free environment. Also please don't engage in conversations in rehearsals other than current music related issues. I do appreciate most of you show me a great deal of respect at all times and I thank you for that. Brian has pointed out that we only really play at the "bigger more demading occasions" now so it is important we keep up the discipline in rehearsals. I was pleased to be able to start on the dot of 6.30 last week with most of the band present. If we start on time, we will finish on time!

Young Guns:

Young Guns is hard at work preparing music for several upcoming gigs! Stay tuned for more info!

Hifalootin:

Hifalootin are looking for more members to join this group of Flute players. If you would like to join this group please contact Alecia Templeton at alecia1321@hotmail.com or phone 0401 883 608.

Adult Instrument Learning Program:

AILP has commenced a new class for term 3 with 4 members. AILP is open to all adults and children who would like to learn to play an instrument and to read music. Please contact Anne Geoghegan at seascape@tsn.cc or phone 0413 622 466.

Blue Note Ensemble:

Blue Note Ensemble will be playing at the Uniting Church Fete on Sat. Sept. 4th at 11.15am.
Margaret Kirkwood is recovering well from her recent operation. She is now out of Intensive Care, and is staying with family in Sydney. It may be a few weeks before she is back in Port Macquarie. Get well soon Margaret!!
Blue Notes are also looking for new players, so if you know of any potential players, please speak to Marc!

New Notes:

New Notes have been working hard towards an upcoming gig at Douglas Vale Vineyards, The new green hat bands are complete! Thanks to Betty and Russ for making these! There is a bit of a knack to put these on, and this will be demo’d at the next rehearsal!