It’s our 25th Anniversary and we are so excited!

This year, we have commissioned TWO works to celebrate our enduring commitment to music, culture, and community. We will premiere both commissioned pieces along with a fantastic lineup of repertoire at our 25^th Anniversary Concert.

Saturday, May 11 7pm
Cochrane Alliance Church
902 Glenbow Dr, Cochrane

Jay Michalak, one of Canada’s leading trumpeters and Director of the award winning JazzYYC Youth Lab Band, has composed a Latin jazz piece, Nieve Caliente, (“Hot Snow”) for Riverside Jazz. Jay has created a piece that captures an authentic salsa feel and sound, while following a traditional salsa song form which gives every section of the band a chance to shine.

Juno Award winner Claude Lapalme (conductor, composer and arranger/orchestrator living in Red Deer) has collaborated with Sonny-Ray Day Rider (composer and pianist from the Kainai Blood Tribe pursuing advanced studies (M.Mus) in music composition at the University of Lethbridge) to create a piece called Meet Me At The River for Band on the Bow and Choral Waves together.

By producing this work with composers of this caliber, with Reconciliation in mind, we have pursued a project that allows us to challenge ourselves technically, artistically, and culturally to understand our nation and our place within it in a deeper way.

Thanks to Bow RiversEdge Campground Society and Calgary Association for the Development of Music Education for their generous support!

For lots more information on the commissioned works and to purchase tickets, please see our 25th Anniversary Concert webpage.

Come and help us celebrate our 25th Anniversary!

West Coast Amateur Musicians Society
41^st Annual Summer Music Camp
July 14-21, 2024
Brentwood College, Mill Bay, BC

Choirs, strings, wind, celtic, jazz, many chamber groups, children, youth and adult programs – the WCAMS Summer Music Camp is filling up but they do need trumpets, trombones, oboe and bassoon. They also need more kids grades 1-4 to fill their Children’s Program.

This year the camp will be at beautiful Brentwood College, Mill Bay, BC. This camp is a FANTASTIC experience! Participants may stay in residence or attend as day students.

See the PLETHORA of classes https://wcams.ca/camp/Brochure2024.pdf  It’s amazing!

More information and registration: https://www.wcams.ca/camp/

If you would like more details (and enthusiasm) from a longtime participant, email jane@kaczmer.com

An exciting Handel opera collaboration with Calgary’s Chamber Muse.

Filled with love and subterfuge, come on an unforgettable journey through one of Handel’s most engaging operas.

Saturday, April 13th at 7:30 pm
Knox United Church (506 4 St SW Calgary)

Directed by Special Guest Hank Knox (Montreal)

Roles and singers:  Ariodante-Aoife Bonaventura;  Ginevra-Hannah Pagenkopf;  Dalinda-Laura Hynes;  Polinesso-Sara Staples; Lurcanio-Jerald Fast;  Re di Scozia-Kristian Lo;  Odoardo-Juan Tonita-Charriez

Tickets: $50 (Groups: 6 or more tickets 20% off)
Student Rush price all concerts $20
Tickets available through the Polaris Centre Online Box Office

Box office telephone: 403-255-9368

Web Site  https://www.earlymusicvoices.ca/2023-2024-season

Cochrane Music Society’s Winter Celebration Concert is just two weeks away – Sunday, December 10 at 7pm at the Cochrane Alliance Church.

Riverside Jazz band will open the show with a little something for everyone to get us in the holiday spirit and ready to party! Come on a journey with us as we go from fond nostalgia with A Charlie Brown Christmas to attitude with Arnge Drank by Paul Baker, interspersed with music to fall in love to with our amazing vocalist, LeeAnn Davis DeCoteau, singing Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer’s It Had Better Be Tonight and Night and Day by Cole Porter. The band will finally take you to a much-desired hot weather vacation with Scotty Morris’s Mambo Swing!

Songs whose titles and lyrics portray the various colours and lights that we experience in the winter provide the theme for Choral Waves‘ performance. Woodsmoke and Oranges travels “to the land of the silver birch, cry of the loon” that we all know. Irving Berlin’s swing tune, Blue Skies, reminds us how love can turn blue days into blue skies. A Glimpse of Snow and Evergreen visualizes the peace and tranquility of “the cool white hush of fallen snow” on a stand of pine trees. Gordon Lightfoot’s beautiful love song, Song For A Winter’s Night, conjures the loneliness of missing one’s love on a snowy winter night. These songs (plus three more!) illuminate us with the fact that winter can be a source of beauty and truth that can be both startling and comforting.

Band on the Bow is bringing hope, optimism, conquering fear, and joy to the stage, with music that ranges from the familiar to deeply imaginative. Steven Bryant’s composition, Aloft, evokes the relentless pursuit of powered flight by the Wright Brothers as well as the broader sense of persistence and elation during any creative act. Keystone, by Matt Neufeld (Winnipeg) who loves to play Mario Kart, is upbeat, engaging music that will boost your mood and energy. Night Highway was inspired by composer Nicholas Ryan Kelly’s many late-night journeys along British Columbia’s precarious mountain highways. The music captures both the restless energy of vehicles in motion and the strange melancholy of traveling alone late at night, with the mountains looming above and the lights of Vancouver gleaming far below. Christmas Toons is a trip down memory lane featuring music from your favorite childhood cartoons arranged by Julie Giroux.

The winter season is brim full of holidays and traditions. Come and celebrate the magic of this time as Cochrane Music Society warms you with fantastic music!

Get your tickets now HERE or at the door.

Remember to bring Food Bank donations!  

We are excited to announce that the 2023 Winter Celebration concert will be Sunday, December 10 at the Cochrane Alliance Church at 7pm.

The Riverside Jazz band is putting on a little something for everyone to get us in the holiday spirit and ready to party! Come on a journey with us as we go from fond nostalgia to music to fall in love to, to a much desired hot weather vacation!

Songs whose titles and lyrics portray the various colours and lights that we experience in the winter provide the theme for Choral Waves‘ performance. These songs illuminate us with the fact that winter can be a source of beauty and truth that can be both startling and comforting.

Band on the Bow is bringing hope, optimism, conquering fear, and joy to the stage, with music that ranges from the familiar to deeply imaginative. Not to be missed!

The winter season is brim full of holidays and traditions. Come and celebrate the magic of this time as we warm you with fantastic music!

Remember your Food Bank donations!

Tickets: Adults $20  Senior $15 Children <12 yrs Free
Purchase Online HERE or at the door.