The Band Music Festival of Chiayi City---Group Introduction

Normally, people's impression about Chaiyi is a town culture, however, very people aware that the sunshine Chiayi has also been recognized as “the city of band music” in Asia Pacific Area. Continually organizing 12 times of “The Band Music Festival of Chiayi City”, it allows Chiayi establishing its reputation in the international stage, the activity has also become one of the well-known music grand meeting in Taiwan .
By the end of every year, the band music festival of Chiayi City opens bustlingly under citizens' enthusiastic anticipation. The music festival is not only an important stage for all of the band music teams to present their performance in front of the public once a year, it is also a great chance introducing the worldwide famous band music groups to our people.
When the loud and clear brass band instrumental ensembles and wood-wind instruments play together, listens from all over the nation or the world have come to enjoy the moment in our city. The city, situated on the Tropic of Cancer, has suddenly demonstrated a different feature, displaying another melody chapter of lively Taiwan .
Tracing the development history of the band music in Chiayi city, we can track back to 1932 at the time when Japanese ruled Taiwan . People had established the first local wood-winds instruments band at Chiayi senior high school, the band music of Chiayi spread over since then. Half century later, in 1981, following the prosperous economy of Taiwan and information freely flowing, many junior high schools or professional schools started to transfer their original traditional military music bands and drums bands into the band music that play various music and classical music.
After organizing the unprecedented “Music Lovers' Unified Performance of the Band Music” in our country, we have received active responses from the public, which also opened the fountainhead that Chiayi city would organize big-scale activity by the end of in the very beginning of each year. In 1993, the Chiayi Municipal Cultural Center organized “the first Band Music Festival”; 1998 “1997 International Band Music Festival in Chiayi”, and the 7 th Chaiyi Band Music Festival; in 1999 “2000 Asia Band Music Festival in Chiayi”; the 9 th Band Music Festival in 2000; the “2001 International Band Music Festival in Chiayi”, and the “ 2002 International Band Music Festival in Chiayi”, etc. we have already stepped into the 12 th band music festival. Our program of each year has been highly regarded by the public, and the program also makes Chiayi an international spot in terms of the band music. Accumulating more than 10 years of experience and reputation, Chiayi has received the reputation of “the city of Taiwan 's band music”.


Chiayi City Mayor Preface 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Chen, Li-Jen

Chiayi City has been well known as “The City of Band Music” in Asia Pacific Area. By the end of every year, the band music festival in Chiayi City opens bustlingly under citizens' enthusiastic anticipation. The music festival is not only an important stage for all of the band music teams to present their performance in front of the public once a year but also a great chance for the government to introduce the worldwide-famous band music groups to our people. In 2004, under the spectacular topic “Unchained Music,” eighty-six groups from seven countries are invited to participate in more than one hundred performances during the festival.

Tracing the history of the band music in Chiayi City, we can track back to 1932 at the time when Japanese ruled Taiwan. People had established the first local woodwinds instruments band at Chiayi senior high school, the band music of Chiayi spread over since then. Half century later, in 1981, following the prosperous economy of Taiwan and information freely flowing, many junior high schools or professional schools started to transfer their original traditional military music bands and drums bands into the band music that play various music and classical music. We have already stepped into the 12 the band music festival. Our program of each year has been highly regarded by the public, and the program also makes Chiayi City an international spot in terms of the band music. Accumulating more than 10 years of experience and reputation, Chiayi has received the reputation of “the city of Taiwan 's band music”.

In addition to these fantastic music shows, the hospitalities of local folks, the romantic lives of art, the remarkable scenery in Chiayi City cannot be avoided while visitors get involved in this amazing time of ceremony. We also expect old friends who used to live in Chiayi City come back to have a reunion with us, join us and recall those old sweet memories with us. Moreover, we hope that our homefolks bring your friends back here and introduce our hometown to them.

“The International Band Music Festival 2004” wishes to compose a poetic piece of music and an impressive memory of vacation for everyone who comes here. Most of all, we will be the host who salute each of our guests from all over the world with a full heart.
指導單位：
主辦單位：嘉義市政府
行銷宣傳單位：縱橫四海文化事業有限公司