Video clips of the band are on YouTube!

Check out this link to view two selections from the band's past performances:





The first two selections are from the band's 2008 season (video production done by our friends at MCTV). The other videos on this site are of the CMU Marching Chippewas from the 1979-85 era.


The Chem City Band videos "skip" regularly because they were imported from a DVD that was (apparently) of questionable quality. :(

Band shell project

The summer 2011 season of the Chemical City Band will kick off on Wed June 15 at 7:30pm. As the band shell's future is under evaluation, the band will will set up in the grassy area directly between the shell and the benches. The usual seven week season is planned, concluding the last week of July. Jim Huber returns as principal conductor, assisted by guest conductors and soloists through the summer.

Much community interest is developing in the future of the band shell. Details will be coming out very soon, so watch the Midland Daily News for more information!

Click here for previous story on the band shell

Band calendar for 2011

Big news for 2011 and beyond!

Donors for the band's 2011 season include:

• The Charles J. Strosacker foundation
• The Carl & Esther Gerstacker foundation
• The Alden and Vada Dow family foundation
• Charter Communications

In addition to operational funding provided by the three foundations listed above, the Midland Area Community Foundation will be opening a new account to be titled the Chemical City Band Endowment Fund, to which our first major donor is Charter Communications!

More details will come as we approach the summer season, but this funding will ensure the operation of the band for at least the next three years, and the endowment project will plant the seeds for funding the band for many ,many years to come.

We look forward to the 2011 summer season, and hope you will continue to support one of Midland's finest traditions - the Chemical City Band.

Read article: http://www.ourmidland.com/news/article_77623214-0f7b-11e0-9364-001cc4c002e0.html

What a great summer!

The Chemical City Band has completed it's 101st season, and it was a great one! We have so many people to thank, but most of all we want to acknowledge:

• Charter Communications
• The many members of our loyal audience who have donated money to support the band's operations
• Our musicians, who volunteered their time this summer
• The City of Midland, for providing the use of the sound system and the band shell

Thank you to all of you, and let's look forward to next summer!

Warmest regards,

Jim Huber, music director

Season finale - July 28, 2010

Season finale concert

Wednesday July 28, 2010

7:30pm at Central Park band shell

The 101st season of the Chemical City Band concludes with a program of music that will include:

Trombone concerto, by Rimsky-Korsakov (with featured soloist Erik Ludwig)

Selections from the musical "The Fantasticks"

March of the Steel Men (dedicated to the workers in the steel mills of Joliet, Ill)

Late in the Evening (a fun latin tune by Paul Simon)

The Crosley March (Henry Fillmore's tribute to the Cincinnati businessman Powell Crosley)

Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)

Barnum and Bailey's Favorite, by Karl L. King (perhaps the greatest circus march ever written)

The Invincible Eagle, by John Philip Sousa

We hope you will be able to join us for this exciting and widely varied evening of musical entertainment.

Week 6 - July 21st concert

CC Band welcomes back director Jim Huber for the final two weeks of the season. This week, music from a wide variety of styles will include circus marches, music of the British Isles, George Gershwin's lovely ballad "Summertime", and of course, a Sousa march (one of the lesser known marches entitled "Jack Tar"). All this and more, this Wednesday July 21, beginning at 7:30pm at the Central Park band shell.

The weather looks excellent, so plan to join us for another summer evening of music performed by one of Midland's finest traditions, the Chemical City Band.