Temecula All-City Community Band!

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History of the Band! (click here)

Director's Yearly Journal

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		2007 (click here)
2006 (click here)	2005  (click here)	2004 (click here)	2003  (click here)	2002  (click here)

Join the band 2008 details

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Help the Band!

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Potential Parades for when the band becomes a year round band:

· City of Temecula Star-Spangled 4^th Parade (July 4) – The band has participated in this parade every year since 2000. We are usually the only marching band in this parade.

· The United Way Parade (early September in Murrieta). This is a relative new parade that started in 2003. We were first invited in 2006 but the band was in its off season so could not march. This invitation is one of the reasons I would like to take the band to a full year round community band. In 2005 there were 4 high school marching bands in this parade, so it is a chance for the Temecula All-City Community Band to see how we stack up against the other bands.

· City of Murrieta’s Veteran’s Day Parade (~ November 11) – This parade honor all veterans both past and present. This parade started in 2002.

· City of Temecula Christmas Parade (December) – This is a night parade and all units are encouraged to have LIGHTS. Yes, marching instruments are decorated with battery powered lights! This parade has many marching bands, so once again we would be marching with bands that could be “feeders” to the Temecula All-City Community Band

History

In 1999 the Temecula Valley Unified School District decided to go from a four-track year-round school schedule to a modified "A-B" blend schedule.  The impact of this was that, rather than schools being in session all year long, the school year ended in the middle of June and started at the end of August.

This schedule change meant that in the month of July, none of the schools in the district were in session.  Up to this point in time, the city of Temecula, California always had school bands that would participate in their annual "Star-Spangled Fourth Spectacular" parade on the fourth of July.  However, in 1999 they faced a dilemma and had no bands.  So, the City of Temecula called upon Mr. Jerry Burdick-Rutz, the director of bands at Chaparral High School in Temecula, and asked him if he could put together a marching band for the parade.  Mr. Burdick-Rutz accepted the challenge and the band was formed.  It was sponsored by the Chaparral High School Platinum Sound band and had no real name or identity apart from the school.  Mr. Burdick-Rutz ran the band from its founding through July 2001.  

In 2002, Mr. Jerry Burdick-Rutz was chosen as an instructor for the California State University, Chico - Drum Major Camp.  This camp was designed to build outstanding high school drum majors for field competitions across the United States.  This was an honor not to be passed, so Mr. Burdick-Rutz accepted the position.  However, this left the community band without a director.  Mr. Burdick-Rutz asked all the band directors in the Temecula Valley Unified School District if they would take over the band, but no one accepted.

One day, Mr. Wade E. Walker, Jr., a baritone saxophonist in the community band, asked Mr. Burdick-Rutz if anyone had accepted the position of directory of the community band.  Since the position was still available, Mr. Walker asked if he could run the band.  So, starting in May of 2002, Mr. Wade E. Walker, Jr. became the director of the band.  The band was soon given the name "Temecula All-City Community Band" and was on its way to becoming a band apart from its founding sponsors.

With the events of September 11, 2001 still fresh in everyone's minds, the band decided to make a couple of changes.  No longer would it be a one-song parade band, but would play two songs.  The first song would be related to the parade theme, and the second would be patriotic.  This necessitated removing the requirement of memorizing the music.  So, in July 2002 the band hit the streets playing its standard "Trooper's Battlehymn" as the primary march.  The patriotic march was a rendition of "America the Beautiful".

As so, the Temecula All-City Community Band was born!