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York University Community Band Festival

by Graham
May 1st, 2012

Join True North Brass on Saturday May 5, 2012 as they performing and conducting a workshop from: 12:00-1:00 and 2:00-3:00 in Room 235 of York University.

Another reason to come out is that we’ll be offering a special deal on CDs this weekend: pay only $35 when you buy any two of the following: True North Brass, Strong and Free, Beginning to See the Light, or A True North Christmas.  That’s a lot of good music, and you know what?  If you want three or four CDs they’re only $5 each!  ..that’s right, we’ll give you 4 CDs in exchange for $45.

That’s a pretty great deal, so let’s just keep this between us.

We’re really excited to see all the community bands with everything they have to offer, so don’t miss this May 5th at York University!

…and a quick shout-out to the event’s sponsors Yamaha Canada (because of course members of True North Brass are Yamaha Artists), York University and St. John’s Music.

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True North Brass at MusicFest in Ottawa

by Graham
May 1st, 2012

True North Brass always loves being asked to participate in MusicFest, because it’s just so much fun!  This time we’re going to the nation’s capital (Ottawa, of course) and will be performing at the following times:

  • Monday May 14th, 1:00 PM
  • Tuesday May 15th, 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM
  • Wednesday May 16th, 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM
  • Thursday May 17th, 11:00 AM

Check out more events on the MusicFest website – MusicFest.ca

See you there!

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Our logo in the flesh

by Joan Watson
September 16th, 2010
The cover photo for our first CD is a wolf howling at the night sky which is covered in the Aurora Borealis.  The photo just spoke “Canada” to  all of usso we agreed that would be our logo.  The wolf is on all of our merchandise and Scott and I even had it engraved on a rock with the word “welcome” for the front door of our home.
Stuart Laughton, who was in the group at the time, is an amazing outdoorsman (ask him about any North American bird and he’ll tell you every detail).  This provided fodder for endless interesting conversations while we were touring.
NOW, Stuart is the creative director of the Forest Festival (www.theforestfestival.com) each summer and this summer, True North Brass played the final festival recital for a wonderful audience of cottagers and relaxed Torontonians.  We brought Stuart in to play his harmonica and we augmented some of our charts to include three trumpets.  It was great having Stuart back with the group!
Before the concert, we met the owner of the 70,000 acres of land! now designatedas a permanent forest.  She had in tow a wolf and a couple of nice dogs.  It is illegal to own a pure bred wolf and she explained that people mate wolves with dogs and then keep mating backwards to get as much wolf in them as possible.  The wolf you see in this picture is not pure bred; sure looks that way though, doesn’t it?  He was wonderfully calm so we grabbed the chance to get a photo of our “LOGO” in the flesh, so to speak.
True North Brass with our mascot: "Tatakatu"

True North Brass with our "logo"

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