2011 Band History
Dan & Terri Schultz
Old Dam Community Band 2011 history
First off…. Many thanks to John Powell who for many years provided The Band with his history updates. John has not played tuba with the concert band for several years but continues to play banjo with The Little Old Dam Band… our smaller Dixieland ensemble.
Overlooked in earlier band history comments…. In 2009, The Band organized a low brass (tubas, trombones, and euphoniums) ensemble and decided to call it BBQ for Big Brass Quartet. The group rehearsed on Thursday evenings at 7pm at Dan’s house and did several performances during 2009. The group continued through 2010 with several performances at local churches. The Big Brass Quartet met through 2010 and continues to practice and perform in 2011. A few players have come and gone but the ‘basic bunch’ remains… Wayne Fiester, Dan Schultz, Charlie Dewig, Dave McGill, and Gene VanStone.
The Little Old Dam Band continues to meet on Saturday at Dan’s house for practice when we’re not playing at a local nursing home.
January 4 – Regular rehearsals of The Old Dam Community Band resume at Castle South Middle School under the direction of Jerry Reese. The Band also meets at The Newburgh Ohio Township Central Library of the 4th Tuesday of each month… for either a public concert or a regular practice. The public is always invited when it be a rehearsal or a concert.
January 8 – The Little Old Dam Band played at Parkview Health Care. Jim Sermersheim is there recovering from heart surgery. Joe Harbert has stepped up to fill Jim’s shoes in the Little Old Dam Band and is doing a great job! (Note… Jim Sermersheim returned to the hospital on January 18th due to complications of his heart surgery and a stroke).
January 22 – On a humorous note… Mary Ann Decker ‘lost it’ on her way to Little Old Dam Practice and slid on the snow and took out some bushes by her condo. … in her Hummer!
February 12 – The Little Old Dam Band played before The Really Big Show at The Center.
March 27 – The Little Old Dam Band played at the Evansville Central Library at 2pm as part of their Koch Foundation Music Program.
May 7 – The Little Old Dam Band played for the start of Newburgh’s Rivertown Trail 5K run.
May 14 – The Little Old Dam Band played at the Newburgh Farmer’s Market.
May 21 – The Old Dam Community Band performed at the Newburgh Presbyterian Church’s ‘Strawberry Fest’. We’ve been doing this event for many years now and it always promised to be a good crowd.
May 28 – The Old Dam Community Band played as part of the Memorial Day program at Rose Hill Cemetery.
June 11 – The Little Old Dam Band performed at Newburgh’s Farmers Market.
July 3 – Our annual ‘fireworks concert’ was rained out. However… the food was already prepared so we moved inside The Old Lock & Dam Building (our former rehearsal hall) for our 4th of July picnic. It was an interesting sight with the storm/rain coming up suddenly and all the band members carrying the food up the ramp to the building. It looked like a troupe of ants!
July 5 – Our regular Tuesday evening rehearsal was turned into a 4th of July performance at The Evansville State Hospital.
July 9 – The Little Old Dam Band performed at the Newburgh Farmer’s Market.
July 12 – Castle South Middle School is closed and Jerry Reese is on a well-deserved vacation. The Band met at St. Mark’s Church on Epworth Road. Thanks to Jim Moore for conducting and arranging an alternate meeting site.
July 19 – Castle South Middle School is closed for summer cleaning so we met in rehearsal room ‘B’ at Castle High School. Kudos to Faril Bunner and Mark Eifler for making us welcome.
July 23 – The Little Old Dam Band performed at the Newburgh Farmer’s Market.
August 6 – The Little Old Dam Band performed at the Newburgh Farmer’s Market.
August 13 – Mark Myers subbed for Wayne Fiester at a regular rehearsal of The Little Old Dam Band.
August 20 – The Little Old Dam Band performed at the Newburgh Farmer’s Market.
September 9 – The Little Old Dam Band performed at The Rathbone Home for their annual picnic.
September 11 – The Old Dam Community Band performed in Fort Branch for ‘A Day To Remember’ veterans recognition picnic.
September 17 – The little Old Dam Band played at Joe Harbert’s church on Ford Road. Jim Moore subbed for me.
September 24 – The Little Old Dam Band played at Newburgh’s Farmers Market.
October 1 – The Little Old Dam Band played at the ‘Smile on Downs Syndrome Walk’ at the 4-H Center.
October 8 – The Old Dam Community Band participated in The Fall Festival parade on West Franklin Street. The inverter for the trailer lighting got fried! This is a night-time parade so it was difficult to read the music. All went well despite the bad lighting!
October 15 – The Little Old Dam Band performed at Newburgh’s Farmers Market.
October 29 – The Little Old Dam Band performed at Newburgh’s Farmers Market.
October 29 – The Old Dam Community Band led the Newburgh Halloween Parade for children at 4pm.
October 3 – Terri Schultz released her book “Ten Years of Tuesdays”… a history of the first ten years of The Old Dam Community Band. The books is also on The Band’s website in full color.
November 6 – The Old Dam Community held its ‘Annual Meeting’ at the Newburgh Public Central Library. The Band furnished fried chicken and a ‘pitch in’ dinner was enjoyed by all. Following a brief business meeting we were entertained by small ensembles including the Big Brass Quartet, The Little Old Dam Band, and a woodwind quintet.
November 12 – The Little Old Dam Band performed a ‘Senior Sing-Along’ at the Evansville Central Library.
November 19 – The Little Old Dam Band performed at Newburgh Health Care on Pollack Avenue.
November 19 – The Old Dam Community Band had strolling musicians performing at Newburgh’s ‘Silver Bell’ celebration in Downtown Newburgh.
November 19 – The Old Dam Community Band participated in the North Main Street Parade at 3pm in Evansville.
December 3 – Strolling musicians from The Old Dam Community Band performed in Downtown Newburgh.
December 4 – The Little Old Dam Band performed for the Christmas party at Carl Zimmerman’s condo at 6pm.
December 6 – The Old Dam Community Band performed a Christmas concert at the Downtown Evansville Central Library at 7pm.
December 10 – The Old Dam Community Band performed at the Evansville Nut Club’s ‘Santaland’ on West Franklin Street from 3 to 4:30pm.
December 13 – The Old Dam Community Band performed a joint concert with the Castle South Bands in the Castle South gym.
December 17 – The Little Old Dam Band participated in the Nut Club’s ‘Santaland’.
December 20 – Castle South Middle School is closed for the holidays. Band Christmas party at Dan and Terri’s house.
It was another very busy year!
History submitted by Dan Schultz