• Individual - $30.00/year: Includes membership card, subscription to ADVANCE magazine and periodic informational mailings, voting privileges, participation in annual convention and convention band, and access to ACB Membership Directory and other ACB publications online (hard copies available upon request). Open to active and retired musicians, conductors, teachers and band enthusiasts. (Half year for half price begins July 1.)
  
  
• Family - $45.00/year: Includes membership card, subscription to ADVANCE magazine and periodic informational mailings, voting privileges, participation in annual convention and convention band, and access to ACB Membership Directory and other ACB publications online (hard copies available upon request). Open to active and retired musicians, conductors, teachers and band enthusiasts. Family members must reside at the same address. (Half year for half price begins July 1.)
  
  
• Life - $1,000.00 payable in one payment, or four (4) annual payments of $250.00/year: Includes all individual membership privileges, plus a membership certificate suitable for framing and invitation to the life member luncheon held in conjunction with the annual convention.
  
  
• Organization - $50.00/year; $275.00/year with BMI/ASCAP Blanket Performance Licensing Agreement: Includes all individual membership privileges, plus an organizational membership certificate suitable for framing, access to the Band Builders' Manual, voting privileges and annual convention exhibition privileges. BMI/ASCAP Blanket Performance Licensing Agreement available at an additional cost for qualifying organizations. Open to bands and instrumental ensembles. (Half year for half price begins July 1.)
  

BMI/ASCAP BLANKET PERFORMANCE LICENSING AGREEMENT
Any Organizational Member of ACB meeting each of the following criteria is eligible for a Blanket Performance License from BMI/ASCAP for an annual fee of $225.00:
1. Dues-paying member of the Association of Concert Bands;
2. Annual gross ticket sales of less than $50,000;
3. Annual operating budget of less than $50,000; and,
4. No outstanding dues owed to ASCAP/BMI.

• Corporate - $150.00/year: Includes all organizational membership privileges, plus one copy of our mailing list and advertising services and annual convention exhibition privileges when available. Open to music industry, music and instrument manufacturers and retailers, and related businesses and associations. (Half year for half price begins July 1.)
  
  
• International members add $15.00/year.





Membership Benefits
In addition to gaining access to the Member's Only area of the website, which contains a full membership listing of current ACB members, the Band Builder's Library, ADVANCE back issues in PDF format, the ACB Bylaws Bank, and other ACB documents and essays, members of the Association are eligible to receive a discount from Avis Rent-a-Car, as well as being eligible for special promotions.

Application Options
Choose the application form below.  All applications should be completed, then sent with check or money order made payable to the Association of Concert Bands via US mail to:



The Association of Concert Bands
c/o Nada Vencl Montgomery, Secretary
6613 Cheryl Ann Drive
Independence, OH  44131-3718



         MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION