The YCMEA Desert Band Festival is a collaborative festival in which beginning and intermediate bands from all over Yuma County rehearse together and put on a concert.

Each group will receive music to rehearse prior to the event. After turning in your beginning and intermediate instrumentation you will be given a rehearsal schedule for both days.

The schedule will look like this example:

Thursday, May 15
Your beginning band
Rehearsal from 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Concert run-through from 4:00pm to 5:00pm
High school jazz performance from 5-5:30pm
Dinner from 5:45-6:45pm
Concert at 7pm

Yes! This is an all day event. Your beginning band will perform on one day and your intermediate band on the other.

Fees: $2.00 per student
$10.00 for any non-YCMEA member

Please label all equipment you bring (especially percussion) before May 15 and May 16.

Each director is responsible for transportation arrangements to the rehearsal site.

Students/parents are responsible for transportation home after the concert.

Please inform your parents and administrators that this is an all day event!!

Please click HERE to download the FESTIVAL billing/dinner statement. After downloading, please print the form, fill it out and return to the address listed on the statement by May1, 2008

Click this text to proceed to the online registration forms.