Music Director Dr German Gonzalez kicks off the 2024 season with an exciting program of concert band favorites. Our announcer for the day will be veteran broadcaster and GGPB board member John Rothmann

Spring Perfection

Looney Tunes Overture . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  arr. Bill Holcombe

Amazing Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  trad./arr. Frank Ticheli

Gallop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Khatchaturian/arr. E. Leidzen

Second Suite in F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gustav Holst

Air for Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Frank Erickson

Folk Song Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ralph Vaughan Williams

Symphonic Gershwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Warren Barker

Instant Concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Harold Walters

Around the World in 80 Days . . . . . V. Young/arr. D. Wright

Golden Gate March . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Edwin F. Goldman

Trumpet Palooza

A  concert featuring our amazing trumpet section!

Bugler's Holiday ... Leroy Anderson

Cousins .. Herbert L Clark

Rose Variations ... Robert Russell Bennett

featuring soloist Eric Wayne

Concerto for Trumpet in E flat, II ... Haydn

soloist Dr German Gonzalez

Concerto for Cornet, Flugelhorn and Trumpet ... Warren Barker

soloist Mark Nemoyten

More TBA

This concert is part of the two day Golden Gate Park Band Festival on June 8 & 9  from 11:00 am t0 5:00 pm.

Program to include:

Festive Overture ... Shostakovich/ Hunsberger

The Beatles: Echos of an Era ... arr. Higgins

The Best of Broadway Marches ... arr Christensen

Dazzling Drums ... Paul Yoder

and more TBA..

Juneteenth and Father's Day - Featuring Music of African American Composers and Artists.

Program to include  works of Katahj Copley, William Grant Still, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Duke Ellington, Omar Thomas, Aretha Franklin, Kevin Day, Scott Joplin and more.

Songs and Dances

An exciting program that will include:

Four Dances for West Side Story and The Wrong Note Rag ... Leonard Bernstein

Folk Dances ... Shostakovich/ Erickson

Pas Reduble ... Saint-Saens/Frackenpohl

Yagi-Bushi ... Awai

Pineapple Poll ... Sir Arthur Sullivan

Down A Country Lane ... Aaron Copland

PRIDE: A Musical Celebration

Featuring works of LGBTQ Composers.

Program TBA

 A concert in honor of Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams and First Responders

To include works of The Beatles, Gershwin, Frank Erickson and more !

Neighborhood Emergency Response Team

San Francisco Fire Department

2310 Folsom Street

San Francisco CA 94110

Tel: 415-970-2022 / Fax: 415-970-2020

The goal of the NERT program is to help the residents of San Francisco to be self-sufficient in a major disaster situation by developing multifunctional teams, cross-trained in basic emergency skills. Through this program, individuals will learn hands-on disaster skills that will help them as members of an emergency response team, preparing them to respond to a personal emergency or as an adjunct to the SFFD response.

The training consists of six class sessions that are approximately 3 hours each. The NERT Training is free to the public. Instructors are all SF Fire Fighters.

• Session 1: Earthquake Awareness, Preparedness, and Hazard Mitigation
• Session 2: Basic Disaster Skills
• Session 3:  Disaster Medicine
• Session 4: Light Search and Rescue
• Session 5: Team Organization and Management
• Session 6: Skills Development and Application

To learn more about NERT, visit their website at https://sf-fire.org/nert

To contact the NERT Office, email sffdnert@sfgov.org or call (415) 970-2022

 Music of Scotland

With the Dunsmuir Scottish Dancers.

Folk music and dances of Scotland

Scotland The Brave ... Richardson

Holyrood... Alford

Four Scottish Dances .. Malcom Arnold

A Scottish Rhapsody ... Claire Grundman

more TBA

St Stephen’s Day Celebration of Hungarian Culture

With performers from the Hungarian Heritage Foundation,
the band will play favorite Hungarian pieces by Bartok, Von Soppe and others.

Full program TBA

Our annual program in Solidarity with Ukraine 

Featuring many guest performers from the Bay Area Ukrainian community and beyond.