VBF 2016 Concert Schedule by Day/Time

(schedule subject to change; please check back when making plans)

Pre-Festival—Wednesday, July 27

7:00 pm                  Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; Nerstrand Bandshell (rain site: Grace Lutheran Church), Nerstrand, MN

DAY 1—Thursday, July 28

12:00 pm               Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; Contented Cow Pub (Lunch, Listen and Learn #1)

4:00 pm                 Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

5:00 pm                 Original Drachenfelser; Bridge Square Main Stage

6:00 pm                OPEN; Bridge Square Main Stage

7:00 pm                 Copper Street Brass; Bridge Square Main Stage

7:00 pm                 Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band; ArtOrg Veranda, Cannon Falls, MN

7:00 pm                 Orphan Brigade Band; Central Park Bandshell, Faribault, MN

7:00 pm                 Independent Silver Band; Central Park Bandshell, Owatonna, MN

7:00 pm                 Kentucky Baroque Trumpets; First Lutheran Church, Red Wing, MN

8:00 pm                 Jack Brass Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

9:00 pm                 Copper Street Brass; Contented Cow Pub

9:00 pm                 Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; J. Grundy’s Rueb’n’Stein

DAY 2—Friday, July 29

9:30 am                 Glen Newton – British Brass Bands in Minnesota Historic Brass Society lecture, Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College

10:15 am                Maya Santamaria – The Banda Movement in the United States, Historic Brass Society lecture, Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College

12:00 pm               Kentucky Baroque Trumpets; Contented Cow Pub (Lunch, Listen and Learn #2)

12:00 pm               Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; Northfield Hospital

12:30 pm               Orphan Brigade Band; Way Park

1:00 pm                Independent Silver Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

1:00 pm                 WindWorks; First United Church of Christ

1:30 pm                 OPEN; Way Park

2:00 pm                 Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; Bridge Square Main Stage

2:00 pm                 Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band; Northfield Retirement Community Chapel

2:00 pm                 Orphan Brigade Band; Northfield Hospital

3:00 pm                 Ameriikan Poijat; Bridge Square Main Stage

3:00 pm                Kentucky Baroque Trumpets; Northfield Public Library

3:30 pm                Independent Silver Band; Way Park

4:00 pm                 1st Brigade Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

4:00 pm                 WindWorks Quintet; Northfield Public Library

5:00 pm                 OPEN; Bridge Square Main Stage

5:00 pm                 Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; Contented Cow

5:00 pm                 Ameriikan Poijat; J. Grundy’s Rueb’n’Stein

6:00 pm                 Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

7:00 pm                 Kentucky Baroque Trumpets; Bridge Square Main Stage

7:00 pm                 Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; St. Ansgar’s Lutheran Church, Cannon Falls, MN

8:00 pm                 Banda la Verdadera; Bridge Square Main Stage

9:00 pm                 Ameriikan Poijat: J. Grundy’s Rueb’n’Stein

9:00 pm                Tom Baker’s Mardi Gras Brass; Contented Cow Pub

9:00 pm                 Orphan Brigade Band; Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #4393

DAY 3—Saturday, July 30

9:00 am                 Orphan Brigade Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

9:00 am                 Bruce Gleason – Mounted MIlitary Brass Bands in the United States, Historic Brass Society lecture; Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College

9:30 am                 Ron Rodman – World War I and Sousa, Historic Brass Society lecture; Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College

10:00 am               New Prague Area Community Band, Bridge Square Main Stage

10:30 am               Mark Ponzo, cornet soloist (Cornopeon); First United Church of Christ

11:00 am               1st Minnesota Fife and Drum Music: John Guthmann and Luke Friedrich; Bridge Square Main Stage

12:00 pm               Dolcé Wind Quintet; Northfield Retirement Community Chapel

12:00 pm               Battle of the Bands; Downtown Riverwalk

Marengo Civil War Band; Liberty Band of Iowa; 1st Brigade Band; Orphan Brigade Band; Kentucky Baroque Trumpets; Independent Silver Band

1:00 pm                 Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band; Contented Cow Pub (Lunch, Listen and Learn #3)

1:00 pm                 Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; Bridge Square Main Stage

1:30 pm                 Kentucky Baroque Trumpets; Way Park

1:30 pm                 New Prague Area Community Band; Vintage Base Ball game, St. Olaf College

2:00 pm                 Twin Cities Trumpet Ensemble; Bridge Square Main Stage

2:00 pm                 Dolcé Wind Quintet; First United Church of Christ

2:30 pm                 Rampage, a unit of the 34th Infantry Division Band (The Red Bull Band); Way Park

3:00 pm                 Independent Silver Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

3:00 pm                 Brio Brass; Odd Fellows Park Pavilion

4:00 pm                 Marengo Civil War Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

4:00 pm                 Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band; Odd Fellows Park

4:00 pm                 SOM Drum and Fifes and Woodwind Quintet, units of the 34th Infantry Division Band (The Red Bull           Band);Veteran’s Memorial Park

4:30 pm                 Liberty Band of Iowa; Way Park

4:30 pm                 “Get Your Horns, Boys, We’re Starting a Band!”; a presentation by Joy Riggs; Northfield Historical Society

5:00 pm                 Brio Brass; Bridge Square Main Stage

5:00 pm                 Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; Contented Cow Pub

6:00 pm                 34th Infantry Division Band Concert Band (The Red Bull Band); Bridge Square Main Stage

6:00 pm                 Marengo Civil War Band: Memorial Music; Northfield Cemetery

7:00 pm                 Liberty Band of Iowa; Bridge Square Main Stage

8:30 pm                 Buddy Koopmans Orchestra; WWII Victory Swing Dance,  Bridge; Square Main Stage,

9:00 pm                 Coverfire, a unit of the 34th Infantry Division Band (The Red Bull Band); Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #4393

9:00 pm                 Orphan Brigade Band; Contented Cow Pub

9:00 pm                  Tom Baker’s Mardi Gras Brass; J. Grundy’s Rueb’n’Stein

9:00 pm                  Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; Northfield Eagles Club

DAY 4—Sunday, July 31

8:30 am               Orphan Brigade Band; Bethel Lutheran Church

9:00 am                  Marengo Civil War Band; St. Peter’s Lutheran Church

9:00 am                  Chris Hasselbring – Teaching Modern Trumpet Technique Through the Use of the Natural Trumpet, Historic Brass Society lecture; Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College

9:30 am                 1st Brigade Band First United Church of Christ

9:30 am                   Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band; United Methodist Church

9:30 am               Liberty Band of Iowa; St. John’s Lutheran Church

9:45 am                  Tracey Gibbens and Nolan Hauta – Vernon Malone and His Legacy in Virginia, MN 1918-1948, HIstoric Brass Society lecture; Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College

10:00 am                Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; Emmaus Baptist Church

10:00 am               Orphan Brigade Band; Bethel Lutheran Church

10:30 am                Independent Silver Band; Northfield Moravian Church

10:30 am                Kentucky Baroque Trumpets; St. Dominic’s Church

11:00 am               Friedemann Immer and Don Johnson: The Keyed Trumpet, Lecture/Performance; Weitz Center for Creativity; Carleton College

12:00 pm               Swing and a Miss; Bridge Square Main Stage

1:00 pm                 Sheldon Theatre Brass Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

1:00 pm                 Lex-Ham Community Band; Odd Fellows Park

1:00 pm                 Polished Brass Quintet; Northfield Retirement Community Chapel

1:30 pm                 Bavarian Musikmeisters; Way Park

2:00 pm                 Lake Wobegon Brass Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

2:00 pm                 Cedar Valley Brass Quintet; Odd Fellows Park

2:30 pm                 Fridley Old Time Band; Way Park

3:00 pm                 Minnesota State Band; Bridge Square Main Stage

3:00 pm                 Polished Brass Quintet; Odd Fellows Park

3:00 pm                 1st Brigade Band; Cannon Falls Cemetery, Cannon Falls, MN

4:00 pm                 Fridley Old Time Band; Odd Fellows Park Pavilion

4:00 pm                 Cedar Valley Brass Quintet; Northfield Retirement Community Chapel

4:00 pm                 Swing and a Miss; Northfield Senior Center

4:30 pm                 Lake Wobegon Brass Band; Way Park

5:00 pm                 Bavarian Musikmeisters; Bridge Square Main Stage

5:30 pm                 Minnesota State Band; Way Park

6:30 pm                 Fridley Old Time Band; Northfield Eagles Club

7:00 pm                 Lake Wobegon Brass Band; Contented Cow Pub

7:00 pm                 Original Drachenfelser Musikanten; J. Grundy’s Rueb’n’Stein

7:00 pm                 North Star Vaudeville Orchestra; Vaudeville and War Bond Rally 1917, The Weitz Center Cinema (Carleton College)