Welcome to the website of The Santa Ana Winds, the Official Music Ambassadors for Orange County, California.

Santa Ana Winds is a non-profit volunteer musical organization with members ranging in age from 14 to 21 years old. We perform at parades, concerts, field shows, banquets, and conventions throughout the year. We travel across Southern California and the rest of the United States, and have performed numerous times in Canada, Mexico, South America, and Europe.

This year marks the band's 36th season, and it is under the direction of Mr. Greg Rochford.

Mr. Robert L. Ward, the founder and director of the Santa Ana Winds Youth Band, has passed away on May 31st 2008. We are collecting thoughts and testimonies from alumni of the band to create a special memorial section. Details about the services and the memorial section will be posted soon.

There is an obituary and tribute article in the OC Register online version.

The band will march in the Huntington Beach 4th of July Parade, as well as a few other summer events, please see the schedule for details. Alumni are encouraged to attend.

There is a nice write-up about the Winds in the Orange County Register. The article is available online here.

There are now several videos of the band that have been uploaded to the video sharing site YouTube.com. We will be collecting embedded versions of these and putting them on a new videos page, so people won't have to search all over YouTube to find them. If you have video of the band, by all means, post it to YouTube, and send us the link to it, we will embed it. This is the best means to share videos of the band, since we won't have to use up the limited space on our website to host the video content. YouTube has a video limit of 10 minutes and 100MB per clip, which should be enough for single clips of songs, but not a whole concert, though you can divide it up into separate clips for each song. Be sure to label the video with as much info as you can, including song, location, event, date, etc. Note that we will only share video clips of the Santa Ana Winds band itself, please don't send us links to unrelated videos. To watch YouTube content it is recommended to have a broadband internet connection and the latest Adobe Flash player plugin for your browser.

Broadband internet connection strongly recommended.

SAWinds Video page.

The Santa Ana Winds has a new rehearsal hall.

We are now rehearsing at Godinez Fundamental High School, AKA Valley West High School.

The address is: 3002 Centennial Rd., Santa Ana, CA 92704 (click the link for a Google Map of the area).

Santa Ana Winds 35th Anniversary Reunion Information!

Mr. Ward has set up a special alumni band to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Santa Ana Winds! This band has marched in the Hollywood Christmas Parade, performed a special concert in August, was a part of many other special activities.

We have some more detailed information, as well as a questionnaire, compiled in a PDF document.  Please download this document, print it, and mail it back to Mr. Ward if you are an alumni, whether or not you are going to the reunion.  If you cannot open a PDF document on your system please visit www.adobe.com to download the free Acrobat Reader.

Reunion Info and Questionnaire

If you have any questions at all, please email us at: sawinds at gmail dot com

NOTE: Our email address has changed recently, please update your address book!

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