About Juneau Community Bands

The Juneau Community Bands consists of groups of volunteer musicians who join together in several ensembles to rehearse and perform in Juneau, Alaska.  These ensembles currently include:

• Taku Winds: This ensemble is targeted primarily at advanced adult musicians.  Typically, our players have prior playing experience from high school or college. Taku Winds presents several concerts per year, and performs challenging music-- legacy as well as newer works.

• Juneau Volunteer Marching Band:  The Marching Band, first organized in 1976 for America's Bicentennial, is the original Juneau Community Bands ensemble.  The JVMB welcomes  musicians of all abilities who are at least junior high school age.  It typically performs a sit-down concert prior to the Fourth, and then marches in both the Juneau and Douglas Independence Day parades.

• Rain-deer Band:  This group typically starts rehearsing in November, and prepares Christmas music for sharing in  free, short concerts at various locations around Juneau,.  Rain-deer Band appears in venues such as Wildflower Court, the Pioneer's Home, Gallery Walk, etc.

• Small ensemble groups:  Smaller groups, such as duets, trios, quartets, etc., self-organize to present a chamber concert in the late spring of each year.  These groups are typically ephemeral, existing for the duration of a chamber concert.

If any of the above groups catch your fancy, we welcome your interest: Please let us know

Juneau Community Bands is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.

Our EIN: 42-2708876