Musikkapelle Leavenworth, the Bavarian Village town band, began in 1994 under the direction of Chris Schimer. The band performs at all major Leavenworth festivals and activities in addition to out-of-town appearances. It is typical of town bands of Bavaria.
The repertoire consists of over one hundred arrangements from Germany and marches, waltzes and polkas typical of Bavaria. Like German village bands, members of Musikkapelle Leavenworth come from a wide area. The band was under direction of Ed Barnhart from 1998 until 2003 and to date Chuck Randall holds the baton.
Musikkapelle Leavenworth's next performance is March 28th at 7:00 pm at the United Methodist Church. You can find more information on Northwest Public Radio's arts calendar.
I've been e-mailing Chuck about the band and he wrote that "in researching the project of creating a band, the organization "Project Bayern" traveled to Germany
and visited Berchtesgaden and Mittenwald and Oberammergau. They came home with costumes to outfit about 25 members. We now number about 32." As you can see from the photo above the costumes are really cool!
Here's a picture of Oberammergau. If it looks familiar scroll down to the next picture of Leavenworth, Washington and you may realize why!
If you've never visited Leavenworth it's definitely worth a visit. It's a really fun little town that is what I like to call more Bavarian than Bavaria! And check out the background scenery in this photo.
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