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Wisconsin Rapids City Band
The best support you can give the band is to take time to give yourself a treat. Come out to Robinson Park on band concert night. Enjoy a relaxing, pleasant evening outdoors listening to some great band music. Bring your boy friend, girl friend, or husband, wife, kids, grandparents—all your relatives and friends. Band concert in the park is a tradition all over the country and Wisconsin Rapids is no exception. It has been for years and will no doubt continue to be for years to come. Pleasurable listening, enjoyable surroundings, fine company. These are the things that make band concert nights so popular and are the driving forces that keep bands going and going stronger than ever—and they will continue strong as long as people remain capable of sharing the pleasures and joys of a musical evening in the park.
Attend band fund raising events such as brat fries and treat yourself to some delicious food and a bit of good socializing. It's a nice way to benefit the band while enjoying yourself.
Come out to Robinson Park with family and friends on band concert nights and treat yourself to a variety of first-rate band music played in pleasant surroundings. If you happen to get thirsty or feel like a treat during the concert, treat yourself to some bottled water and/or ice cream. You'll not only be treating yourself, but benefiting the band as well.
Each year the band performs a Benefit Concert in the Performing Arts Center, Lincoln High School. This generally involves an hour band concert followed by a variety of entertaining features including such things as dancers, comedy skits and musical groups. This is a FREE event, however, those desiring to do so may make an optional donation.
We appreciate contributions of any amount at any time. If you wish to contribute by check, please make your check payable to: Wisconsin Rapids City Band and mail to: PO Box 982, Wisconsin Rapids WI 54494.
Leave a legacy to the City Band through a bequest, charitable trust or gift annuity. For more information, contact the Incourage Foundation and indicate your interest in a charitable bequest to the Wisconsin Rapids City Band.
There a number of ways you, your organization, or your business can sponsor the band: • For $250 you can Sponsor a band concert. (The band will work with you to find the best way to get your name and message across, whether it be a "commercial" within the concert itself, passing out material, posting banners, guest performer, etc.) • Purchase an ad in the City Band program. (Ads range from $60 - 200, and include an ad on the City Band web site along with a link to your web site, if you have one.) • Donate an amount of your choosing toward the band's operational expenses. • Donate an amount of your choosing toward the Band Endowment fund. Mary Beth Rokus is the Band's fund raiser. Give her a call at 715.421.3115 or write her at PO Box 982, Wisconsin Rapids WI 54494. She'll be very happy to discuss band sponsorships and work with you on ways to implement them in the best possible manner that will achieve everyone's goals.
Our present funding situation reminds one a little bit of a similar situation experienced by the Boston Pops Orchestra during the Great Depression years. Perhaps some of you have heard this story as it was related by Norman Gilliland on a Public Radio "Grace Notes" feature.
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