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Golden Eagle Concert Band – Keeping Community Music Soaring
The Golden Eagle Concert Band (GECB) is a nonprofit, all-volunteer community ensemble dedicated to sharing the joy of live music throughout the Denver metro area. Your support helps us continue providing free, high-quality concerts for audiences of all ages, while offering local musicians a welcoming space to rehearse, perform, and grow together.
Funds raised through Colorado Gives directly support the operation and sustainability of the band — including rehearsal and performance venue costs, sheet music and equipment purchases, insurance, publicity, and community outreach initiatives.
Under new leadership, the Golden Eagle Concert Band is experiencing an exciting period of growth and renewal. Our mission is to keep concert band music thriving and accessible for everyone, and your gift ensures we can continue inspiring audiences, supporting local musicians, and enriching our community through music.
Help us keep the music playing — every dollar raised lifts our sound higher!
The Golden Eagle Concert Band's mission is to provide concerts that educate and entertain Colorado communities with diverse musical genres, and to offer adult musicians of varying skill levels the opportunity to develop their musical abilities and participate in a concert band setting. Essentially, the band aims to enrich the cultural landscape of the region while fostering a supportive and inclusive environment for musicians of all backgrounds.
The Golden Eagle Concert Band (GECB) is based in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. We are an all-volunteer adult community band consisting of 60 members that include people of all ages and backgrounds. The GECB is active throughout the Denver Metropolitan Area and the state of Colorado. The versatility of the GECB music collection includes Marches, Patriotic, Pop, Classical, Jazz, Rock, Broadway show tunes, TV themes, Big Band music, and more.
We hold up to five formal concerts each year at Wheat Ridge Center for Music and Arts and other locations around the Denver metro area. The band also performs many indoor and outdoor concerts during the summer for the general public, retirement communities, festivals, churches, and private organizations. The band recently performed at the City of Golden July 4th festivities.
Our History
Founded in 1977, the GECB was originally called the Gold Nugget Brass Band, and was owned and directed by Don Smith, a former circus trumpet player. After fourteen years, Don Smith decided to retire and started to dissolve the band. The band members wanted to continue playing, so the name was changed to the Golden Eagle Brass Band and the non-profit organization was formed in 1991. Dorsey Hudson directed the band for three and one-half years, then various band members directed for about six months. In January of 1995, John R. Williams was appointed Music Director and Principal Conductor. In 2007, the band changed its name to the Golden Eagle Concert Band, which more accurately represented the instrumentation of the band. The GECB became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1996 and has been a part of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), Tier III, since 1996. The band is supported in part by grants from several County Cultural Councils.
Organization name
Golden Eagle Concert Band
other names
GECB, Golden Eagle Brass Band
1995
Tax id (EIN)
84-1188264
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
C/O Wheat Ridge Center for Music and Arts 7530 West 38th Ave.Jefferson County, CO, US