{"id":112,"date":"2014-09-04T13:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.graniteband.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:59:03","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-232\" src=\"http:\/\/test.graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/butch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Butch Mestemacher\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/butch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/butch.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Granite City Community Band is an open organization that accepts members from high school age on up. The band is run by a board, elected by the members of the band. The current band board is:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 1em;\">\n<li><strong>President<\/strong> &#8211; Kelly Slaughter<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vice President<\/strong> &#8211; Damian Morris<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secretary<\/strong> &#8211; Liz Aldana<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treasurer<\/strong> -Bob Auer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To contact the board through email, please use <a href=\"mailto:board@graniteband.com\">board@graniteband.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>Music Directors<\/strong> and <strong>Conductors<\/strong> are Butch Mestemacher and Mary Liszewski, <a href=\"mailto:director@graniteband.com\">director@graniteband.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3263.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1857\" src=\"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3263-300x278.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3263-300x278.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3263.jpeg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Swing Band Manager<\/h4>\n<h5>\u00a0If you are interested in hiring out the GC Swing for your event or dance, please contact one of the Board members or the Director.<\/h5>\n<h3>Postal Mail<\/h3>\n<p>The postal mail address for the band is:<br \/>\nPO Box 441<br \/>\nGranite City IL 62040<\/p>\n<h3>Web Master<\/h3>\n<p>To get in touch with the webmaster, please use <a href=\"mailto:webmaster@graniteband.com\">webmaster@graniteband.com<\/a>. Suggestions, pictures, and corrections are more than welcome!<\/p>\n<h3>Copyright<\/h3>\n<p>We strive to respect the copyright laws and the rights given to composers, performers, authors, artists, publishers and recording companies. Therefore any protected material, including but not limited to samples of recorded music, digitized photographs and graphics, and text will be given proper credit if such supporting documentation is available. If you are the owner of copyrighted material that is posted on this web site and you claim the posting of said material is in violation of current copyright and fair use law, please contact the webmaster and the items in question will be promptly reviewed. We present any information, music or graphics on this web site in good faith and are not liable for any damages, real or perceived, that may occur from this web site using such material.<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate any and all contributions of the many individuals that donate photographs for use on this website. Please E-mail the webmaster if you have questions about the photographs used on this site.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 716px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Granite City Community Band is an open organization that accepts members from high school age on up. 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