VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

JANUARY  2010

Deutschmeister Brass Band Report

Forwarded From German Cultural Society, St. Louis

          The Deutschmeister Brass Band has completed another successful season. We performed for five events held by the Verein, plus the Weihnachtsfeier still to come. We also played for five events away from the club, including St. Agnes nursing home and a private subdivision party for Compton Heights in St. Louis.

          We returned to the St. Louis Zoo for their annual Ottertoberfest and added a new trick to our repertoire. The Zoo initially wanted the entire band to march in the parade to open the Ottertoberfest. But, since the band is not set up to march, we came up with an alternative. Some of our members have informally started a wondering minstrel group to play in the audience at our public performances. They teamed up with an accordion player hired by the Zoo and lead the parade. It worked great! You can see pictures of the minstrels and of all the band performances this year on our web site at www.germanband.com .

          We are always looking for new members for the band, and this year we were lucky to find five new members, some from contacts from our web site. The new members are: John Corandini, Becky Fischer, Teri Gudowicz, Jim Kelhoffer, and Mike Major. 361 to all of you.

          To contact the band for information on joining (no audition required), or for booking the band for a performance call John Ampleman at 636-532-0290 or go to www.germanband.com .

By John Ampleman