San Jose Metro Band takes 1st place at Morgan Hill 4th of July Parade!

This year, the San Jose Metropolitan Band took first place in the annual 4th of July parade in downtown Morgan Hill, California!

The San Jose Metro band competed in the "Adult Band" category and beat out both the Cupertino Symphonic Band as well as the Morgan Hill Wind Symphony to take first place!

Congratulations to all who competed in the parade!

Click here to see the official results:
http://www.mhparade.com/winners.html

See photos from the parade: (courtesy of Don Abel)
http://nicepics.us/Gallery/Holidays/4thJuly08/index.html

San Jose Metro Band Performs at the Golden Gate Park Band Festival

If you were fortunate enough to join us at Golden Gate Park on Saturday June 21st, you would have been treated to an excellent summer afternoon concert featuring a combination of Big Band music along with other well known concert and symphonic tunes.

Here's a link to the festival:
http://sf.funcheap.com/2008/06/19/golden-gate-park-band-festival-10-bands-w-classical-marches-swing-jazz/

Here's also a link to the band that hosts the event, The Golden Gate Park Band:
http://www.mindspring.com/~nemoyten/ggpb/Home.html
It contains a historical look (with pictures) of the band venue in Golden Gate park.

San Jose Metro Band Plays for the Adult Metro Education Graduation

On June 18th, the San Jose Metropolitan Band played for the commencement service of the Metropolitan Adult Education Program (MAEP).

The MAEP is a unit of the Metropolitan Education District (MetroED) and offers adult education classes for free or at a very low-cost. MAEP is one of the oldest and largest adult education programs in the state.

As you may have noticed, the similarity in names between the San Jose Metropolitan Band and the Metropolitan Education District is not a coincidence! Many years ago, the San Jose Metro Band was actually part
of the curriculum of the Adult Education Program and it has therefore become a welcomed tradition for the San Jose Metro Band to play at the commencement services.

It was a beautiful day and we were happy to be playing great music for the ceremony!


Here are some more pix from the event (Courtesy of Don Abel)

http://nicepics.us/Gallery/Music/SJMB08/MAEPGrad08/index.html


For more info on the Metropolitan Adult Education Program See:

http://www.metroed.net/adultcourse.html

Welcome to the new San Jose Metropolitan Band Blog!

Welcome to our blog!
We'll be publishing helpful info, facts and all things musically related to our community concert band located in San Jose, California.

To see who we are, checkout our main website at:
http://www.sjmetroband.org/

- The San Jose Metro Band