About Us
We are a registered charity; tax receipts are provided.
Charitable registration #118819622RR0001.
Although the Brockville Concert Association is called an “association”, it’s not a private club of any kind; it is made up of a small group of music enthusiast volunteers who do what is needed behind the scenes to make a series of concerts happen in Brockville every year. Community members join the board at the annual general meeting in January, agree to take on roles according to their skills and interests, attend planning meetings throughout the year, invite performers to be part of the upcoming slate of concerts and build networks in the music community. Please consider volunteering with us, either by joining the board in January or at any time in the year by contacting us. If you have ideas for concert performances, work with our concert team to make them happen. If you are a people person, maybe you would like to meet and greet performers backstage to make sure they have everything they need. If you are a terrific researcher, you could help us find anything from additional sources of funding to the best prices for accommodation for artists. Know the community in and around Brockville? Help us promote our concerts in the best ways possible.
We learned a lot while presenting concerts online during COVID-19 and we’re now eager to enjoy music in person with you again. We presented an in-person youth concert as part of Culture Days in Fall 2022 and are working on a series of performances for 2023 as we celebrate the Concert Association’s 75th Anniversary of providing concerts in Brockville.
Getting the message out about the BCA’s concerts is one of the Association’s most important ongoing tasks. Often we have received generous funding from the Ontario Arts Council and from our local sponsors to pay artists and create materials to advertise the concerts. Culture Days are growing into a bigger Fall presence in Ontario communities and a BCA concert was again part of the lineup in 2022.
We rely on well-connected local media reporters with the Brockville Recorder and Times, Snap’d and the Mural to interview us for the newspapers, chat with us on Brockville’s community TV channel and take photographs of the performers. Local politicians are enthusiastic about sharing messages from the BCA. Brockville businesspeople happily put up our flyers and posters in their establishments.
The Brockville Concert Association’s mandate has always included a music education component, carried out in a variety of formats. In 2022 Culture Days once again provided a great opportunity for a group of extremely talented and enthusiastic local youth musicians to return to Brockville to perform classical music and jazz as they begin their careers. The Association encourages youth to attend concerts with free or reduced ticket prices.
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” – Haruki Murakami
