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Date Posted: 09:59:00 12/07/04 Tue
Author: Jim Ryan
Subject: Re: 25th Anniversary
In reply to: Chris 's message, "25th Anniversary" on 07:59:13 12/07/04 Tue

We could do a commemorative Journal for the dinner. We could get ads from businesses supporting the cause. Each diner would get a copy of the journal.

For those of you who've never seen a journal, it's basically a whole crap load of advertisements for local businesses, local politicos, other area bands, local fraternal org's (masons?) and anyone else we can think of who wants some public goodwill. The politicians are actually the easiest ones because they have a budget for this type of stuff, and are always willing to spend the $250 for a full page ad.

We intersperce (sp?) into the ads each of our bios from the website, maybe 2 per page. We get someone to write up a history of the band and make that at most 2 pages. We include A FEW older pictures of the band on a couple of the pages as well, with captions and years. We make a list/roster of EVERYONE who has ever played in the group.

Then, we invite each of those people to come to the dinner. We can't comp them, so we invite them and a guest, at cost. We explain that in the letter of invitation to them. Further, any of them who would like to play with us at the end of our performance is invited to bring their instruments.

We play our show, take a break. We come back out with anyone who is not currently in the group included and play 42nd/STB, AG, then close with Green Hills, marching out on Battle is O'er.

Naturally, anyone who does not want to play doesn't have to, but extending this out there could potentially get the urges flowing again for some people who maybe haven't picked up their pipes in a while, or were thinking about getting back into piping but just needed a little coaxing.

The journal could be a $$ maker as well. My dad used to run our band's back in NY, and he'd make $$5k-$$7k a year. This was back in the early 80's. The guy after him wouldn't make as much, but he wasn't as much of a pain in the ass as my dad could be.

This just kinda rolled off my head, so I may be missing some major issues, but I've seen this work before.

jr

>2005 will be the band's 25th Anniversary. This is a
>pretty significant birthday considering the life
>expectancy of most pipe bands. As you all know, MCPB
>is a family and that's what has kept us going through
>the good and bad times. This is a very big milestone
>that could only have occurred with the special people
>that make up the band. You all have a right to be
>very, very proud.
>
>I would like to do something special for this
>Anniversary, but I'm looking for ideas. Please give
>this some thought and send me your ideas. It could be
>something we do at the dinner, but could be something
>that stands alone.
>
>Some ideas I've had are:
>
>A new CD. This is probably not a good idea right now
>because we're trying to get ready for Scotland and I
>believe we have a legitimate chance at the prize list
>-- so I don't want our musical direction distracted by
>learning a lot of new CD music.
>
>A music book. This is something I've talked about
>and think we should proceed with, whatever else we do.
> If you have music you've written, please get it to
>me. If you don't use Piobmaster, send it to me as a
>jpg file or handwritten and I'll convert it. I'd like
>to ask Jim, Chuck, Paul and Amy to assist me with
>selection and editing if you can.
>
>Anyway, give me your ideas about how we can celebrate
>and commemorate our 25th Anniversary. No idea is bad
>(although we will have a special committee to consider
>anything Dave comes up with ;-)

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