Our Heartfelt Appreciation for the Community Support for the Festival

On behalf of the Board of Directors of OCMA we honor the enormous community support that helped make the 2022 Festival Events possible. 

Members and member sponsors provided financial support for all concerts. They worked at events, ushering, selling tickets, and providing refreshments.  They provided housing, and transportation for musicians.  

Our musicians and audiences were thrilled to return to a full festival.  The Bay Area Concert Band opener went off without a hitch and set a positive note for the rest of the festival. Darrell Grant shared his latest arrangements and review the history of his nearly 20 years of performing with us at the unique OCMA Boat House. The Slocan Ramblers provided a sold-out concert at 7 Devils Pub. The Friends of Shore Acres directed parking and provided great hospitality for the afternoon concert with jazz stars, Aaron Johnson, Shaymus Hanlin and his quartet in the garden. 

Eighty Festival Orchestra musicians filled the stage at Marshfield Auditorium after 2 years of health-related cancellations. They played a wide selection of classical and romantic theatre music and 20^th Century Masterworks under the direction of Maestro James Paul. The pops concert directed by Adam Stern provided the audience an opportunity to enjoy programing of music from soundtracks from horror and science fiction movies. Featured in that concert was a selection by OCMA’s contrabassoonist and composer Nicole Buetti.