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The Imperial Native March, Metlakatla, B.C.
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Concert Band Community Band Nepean Ottawa Ontario
Nepean Concert Band (NCB) are Wednesday evenings, 7:30to 9:30 PM, at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre, 35 Stafford Road, Ottawa, Ontario. The NCB is always open to new members. The NCB is a provincially-registered non-profit organization and depends upon membership fees, concert revenue, and sponsorship from patrons in the public and private sectors, to pay for the necessities such as conductor's honorarium, rehearsal space rental, equipment maintenance and the purchase of quality concert band arrangements.
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Genre
Classical • Ensembles
Charts
Peak #49
Peak in subgenre #3
Author
Job Nelson
Uploaded
May 26, 2013
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MP3 3.9 MB • 128 kbps • 4:18
Story behind the song
Job Nelson was a First Nations band trainer, conductor and composer in northern coastal British Columbia, particularly in the Nass River Valley. He was the director or trainer of a number of bands, including Metlakatla, New Metlakatla (Alaska), Port Simpson, and Aiyansh. At Port Simpson the band's name was changed to Nelson’s Silver Cornet Band. With his departure, the band became the Port Simpson Concert Band. In about 1891 Job Nelson was brought from New Metlakatla to be an instructor for the Aiyansh Band. For several winters in the latter part of the nineteenth century, Nelson would be escorted by canoe from New Metlakatla on Annette Island to Aiyansh, where he would spend the winter months. Job Nelson led the Aiyansh Band at the Dominion Exhibition in New Westminster in 1905. Reports at the time indicate that the band played the march “Aiyansh” that had been composed by Job Nelson. This march was subsequently published in 1907 by Whaley- Royce of Toronto under the title “Imperial Native March”.
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