About Us
For over 20 years, the Seaway Winds Community Concert Band has presented annual concerts and performed a wide range of instrumental music across different genres.
In 2002, Seaway Winds began offering an annual concert series at Aultsville theatre, performing a fall concert in October and a Spring concert in May. In addition, the band presents an annual community Christmas concert at a local Cornwall church every December.
Guest soloists performing with Seaway Winds have included Graham Greer, Therese Motard, Lacie Petrynka, Raymond Lacroix, Katie Ditschun, Steve E. And The Pacemakers, The Moe Lemieux Quartet, Helen McAlear and Danielle Vaillancourt.
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Barb Hunter
Barb and husband Brian moved to Long Sault in 1999. She retired from teaching the following year and became the founding director of the Seaway Winds Concert Band in 2001. As a performer, Barb has played in Glen Theatre production orchestras, at various churches in the Cornwall area, and also performs in Ottawa in the Maple Leaf Brass Band.
Barb Hunter grew up in a musical family in South Bend, Indiana. At age 4 she started playing the piano, followed by flute at age 8 and then cornet at age 9. While still in high school, Barb was a church organist and choir director and played trumpet in the South Bend and Elkhart (Indiana) Symphony Orchestras. At age 16 she was trumpet soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony and South Bend orchestras. After graduating from Indiana University with BMus.Ed (Honors) and M.Mus degrees she played in the Phoenix Symphony and taught junior high school band in Tempe, Arizona.
In 1971, she began teaching instrumental music at Montreal West High School (now Royal West Academy) and also taught trumpet and Music Pedagogy Methods at McGill and Concordia Universities. She played in various ensembles including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Encore Brass Quintet, and conducted the 306 Maple Leaf Wing Concert Band in Montreal from 1996-2007.
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Musicians
- Sheila Bailey
- Mickey Pearson
- Sandy Marsolais
- Francis Loughheed
- Richard McRae
- Sam Schroeter
- Anita Savage
- Louise Regnier
- Sherry Thompson
- Brian Timms
- Nick Sadler
- Francine Hart
- Nancy Beehler
- Mary Lalonde
- Deborah Tottle
- Sophie Tasse
- Mathieu Bourbonnais
- Gerry Griggs
- Steve Kemp
- Katherine Moir
- Tim Mills
- Jeananne Wirachowsky
- Rachel Duplantie
- Alain Laplante
- Marc Piche
- Charles Bourget
- Michael Mersereau
- Cheryl McDonald
- Sandy Szirtes
- Ralph Bough
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Contact Us!
SEAWAY WINDS invites musicians of all ages who own concert band instruments and play at an intermediate level to join the band.
Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings, 6:45 - 8:45pm at St. Felix de Valois Church, 620 Glengarry Blvd, Cornwall.
For more information please contact:
Ralph Bough: 613-362-4881
Or email seawaywindstra@gmail.com
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Donations
Seaway Winds Concert Band has a continuing need of funds to obtain new music, special instruments and to cover other expenses so that we can continue to provide our audiences with quality entertainment.
All donations are tax deductible.
With your permission, your generosity will be acknowledged in our concert program and website for the following donation levels:
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OVATION CIRCLE
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$25 - $99
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PERFORMER CIRCLE
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$100 - $249
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SOLOIST CIRCLE
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$250 - $499
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CONDUCTOR CIRCLE
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$500+
Please make your cheque payable to "Seaway Winds", and send to Ralph Bough 325 Baldwin Ave, Cornwall Ontario, K6H 4J7. E-transfers to seawaywindstra@gmail.com will be direct deposited. For a tax receipt, please include your name and address. For any other questions, please contact us.