Welcome to the home of the Orillia Silver Band. We are a community band in the traditional British Brass Band style who perform diverse concerts across the region ranging from the Orillia Jazz Festival to fundraising events to the Mariposa Folk Festival.
Welcome to our 2023-24 Concert Season!
Come to the Theatre with the Orillia Silver Band!
Theatre Treats
featuring Alexandra Teske
Neil Barlow, Music Director
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 7:30 pm at the St. Paul’s Centre
The Orillia Silver Band invites you to join them to experience a wonderful selection of theatre music. Our Theatre Treats Concert takes place on Saturday, November 2, 2024, 7:30 pm at the St. Paul’s Centre in Orillia.
Concert tickets are available from through Zeffy by clicking HERE or at the door.
Renowned Soprano vocal soloist Alexandra Teske will be joining the band for some terrific musical selections from Broadway, both classic and modern.
Alexandra will sing the haunting No One is Alone from Stephen Sondheim’s show “Into The Woods” and the riveting Being Alive from Sondheim’s Broadway favourite “Company”. No vocal theatre music collection is complete without some music of George Gershwin, and Alexandra will sing an engaging medley of Gershwin’s most well-known show tunes.
The band’s music director, Neil Barlow, says that the band has prepared many great selections beyond Ms. Teske’s vocal works to entice music lovers. Some of these tunes include the ever-popular Overture to The Italian in Algiers by Rossini, and the stirring Winsford March by J.A. Greenwood. Lovers of operatic favourites will be transported by a performance of Wagner’s Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral from the opera “Lohengrin”.
The band will feature its own euphonium artist Paul Rayment playing the towering work for euphonium and band called A Spiritual Fantasy by Canadian Doug Court.
Music from the cinematic theatre will be represented with a performance of the wildly exciting theme from The Incredibles by Michael Giacchino. And, of course, all theatre music concerts need a high-energy collection of classic Broadway favourites. Breezin’ Down Broadway by arranger Goff Richards will have everyone tapping their toes and singing along!
Please don’t miss this exciting evening of vocal in instrumental theatre music!
A note about buying tickets through our website...
The OSB has begun using Zeffy for tickets when we are at the St. Paul's Centre or St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Zeffy is a Canadian-based company that supports non-profit charitable organizations like the OSB by providing tools like a donation portal and ticketing for events. They do not charge us for the service. They do, however, ask for a donation to Zeffy when you purchase a ticket or make a donation, much like a tip at a restaurant. There is a suggested amount that is a percentage automatically put in the box beside "Support the 100% free Canadian platform we use!" when you are asked to pay for the tickets. You do not have to select that amount. You are able to select a different percentage (like a restaurant does) or you can enter any amount yourself by selecting "Other". Please consider supporting Zeffy by including a "tip" for them based on what you feel is appropriate. They provide a valuable service and are the only company that does indeed give all of your ticket price to the band. Other platforms that provide ticketing charge the band a fee and a ticket fee to the customer. (You can also make a donation to the Orillia Silver Band as part of purchasing a ticket should you so desire.) We hope to see you at our next concert and thanks for supporting the Orillia Silver Band!
Featured Events
Theatre Treats Concert featuring Alexandra Teske
The Orillia Silver Band invites you to join them to experience a wonderful selection of theatre music. Our Theatre Treats Concert takes place on Saturday, November 2, 2024, 7:30 pm at the St. Paul’s Centre in Orillia. Concert tickets are available from through Zeffy by clicking HERE or at the door. ($25 adult, $20 Senior, $15 Students) […]
Orillia, ON L3V 4Z1
Sleighbells and Brass, Parry Sound
Join the Orillia Silver Band for our annual Christmas Concert, Sleighbells and Brass. There will be lots of great music of the season and our annual Juke Box sing-along so bring your Christmas spirit to the Stockey Centre in Parry Sound on December 1st at 2:00 pm. Tickets will be […]
Parry Sound, ON P2A 1S3
Sleighbells and Brass, Orillia
Join the Orillia Silver Band for our annual Christmas Concert, Sleighbells and Brass. There will be lots of great music of the season and our annual Juke Box sing-along so bring your Christmas spirit to the Orillia Opera House on December 15th at 2:00 pm. Tickets will be available soon!
Orillia, ON L3V 3A6
Check out our Events page for details on all of our upcoming performances.
OSB Recordings
The OSB has recorded several CDs and videos for your enjoyment. You can hear our commissioned works that include Mariposa Sketches, A Life Well-Lived and the Railroad Trilogy on our 3 CDs (Mariposa Sketches, Christmas Time is Here, and Couchiching Classics). You can also follow us on our YouTube Channel (and Facebook too!!) where you can see A Life Well-Lived by Ty Watson and numerous videos recorded "at home" during the pandemic. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of a CD, just send us a note an we will give you the details.
Click here to listen to some samples.
What people are saying about us....
Entertainment writer John Swartz was at our May 28th "Serenade in Brass" concert in Orillia and said in SUNonline/Orillia (10 June 2023):
"This time my seat was not in the usual part of Gord’s Room I like to be, but in the third row. I’d sit up front all the time if I could. The change in perspective allowed me to zero in on sections of the ensemble and I have to say, even though I’ve often said the group plays extremely well, my angle of listening and view put the lower brass and middle voices in the line of fire and holy cow are they ever good. I think the best example of their exceptional playing was in a transcription for band of Beethoven’s Adagio from Sonata No. 8 (Pathetique). Getting the right tone from a section and playing with the sensitivity demanded of the work is not easy to do. It only takes one player to mess it up. The whole program was good. Each tune had elements most of the audience would be familiar with. I especially liked they put Robert Redhead’s arrangement of Gord’s Canadian Railroad Trilogy in the mix. I understand it was added for obvious reasons, which meant they didn’t have a ton of time to rehearse it. Robert was in the audience too. The band has a concert in Huntsville at the Algonquin Theatre July 15 and 16. They’ll be performing with Kyung-A Lee who has been the accompanist for the Cellar Singers. She’ll be playing Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the band’s arrangement by Neil Barlow. You can get tickets for that online. Otherwise we’ll have to wait until the fall to hear the band again."
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