The Wellington Winds along with the Wilfrid Laurier University Centre for Music in the Community co-hosted a Symposium Music Is For Life on May 4-8, 2010. Workshops for New Horizons, Select High School Students, and a Composite Community Band were very successful. Watch for the next Music Is For Life Symposium in 2012.
The Spring 2010 issue of Canadian Winds, the Journal of the Canadian Band Association, included an article The Wellington Winds by Michael Purves-Smith. Read the news article.
Earl Riener, longtime member of the Wellington Winds, passed away in October. The Winds paid tribute to Earl at the 2009 November concerts, both in music and in sock attire (Earl’s habit of wearing non-matching coloured socks). Below is the text from a tribute article from the 2010 January/February issue of The Music Times. Beloved …
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Rogers TV interviews Music Director Dan Warren on February 21, 2010 for the program Grand River Living. See the video of the interview, courtesy of Rogers Local TV (K-W)