page_title: Australian Army Band Kapooka
section_title: Role
hierarchical_section_title: Australian Army Band Kapooka / Role
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian Army Band Kapooka performing at Stress Less Day (Part of Mental Health Week) in the Victory Memorial Gardens.
context_page_description: The Australian Army Band Kapooka is a reserve military band of the Australian Army. Being an army band, it is a sub-unit of the Australian Army Band Corps, the army's official music branch. It is one of eleven military bands of the army and as the official band of the Army Recruit Training Centre. It performs regularly in its area of operations that includes Kapooka, Riverina, and Wagga Wagga. The current director of music is Major Lindsay Mee.
  In 1952, the Army Recruit Training Centre began to be been served by a full time military brass band with a composition of 12 members. It would later be known as the Royal Australian Engineers Band, the Royal Australian Corps of Signals Band and the 1st Recruit Training Battalion Band before being given its current name.
context_section_description: The unit has 22 musicians in its ranks who serve on various on the brass and/or woodwind sections. Being primarily a marching band, the AAB-K also boasts a stage band, rock band, and a jazz ensemble. The AAB-K's primary role is to support the ARTC and therefore support all recruit activities within the Kapooka Military Area.
caption: Australian Army Band Kapooka performing at a World Mental Health Day event in the Victory Memorial Gardens, October 2008.
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