Honeoye Falls Community Concert Band

For The Honeoye Falls Community Concert Band, “community” is at the center of its name. Within its own community and those it travels to, it brings music and spirit to celebrate the seasons, the holidays, and the good times. Within the community of its own band members, it brings uncommon camaraderie, friendship and love for the work of making music.

The group carries forward a rich musical heritage of bands that preceded it in the historic mill creek village of Honeoye Falls – military, brass, and concert bands of the nineteenth and twentieth century. The Honeoye Falls sesquicentennial celebration largely inspired the band’s formation in 1988.

The vibrancy of the twenty-year-old ensemble is due in large part to a core group of founding members, many of who are with the band today. Foremost among them is Director Lindsey Borden, the band’s spiritual wellspring. Beyond her accomplished and respected training in music and performance, she brings a brightness and joy to her work that fires the spirit of all those she leads.  

The band’s sixty active members are diverse in age, occupation and musical experience. As one member said, “We all share a common love for music and performing it for others. It makes us like a big family.” All share a willingness to work hard and the quality of performance achieved is astonishing. Perfection isn’t what matters most, nor is it even the goal. Rather, it is the process of discovering or rediscovering music and working together to bring it creative life.

Lindsey J. Borden was born in Tanzania, Africa, raised in England and after her family moved to the states she graduated from Honeoye Falls-Lima High School. She then received her B.S. in Music Education from Nazareth College of Rochester, New York where she studied flute with Glennda Dove. She continued her music studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois receiving her M.M. in Music Education and studying conducting with John Paynter.

Lindsey has been an instrumental music teacher in the greater Rochester area for eleven years, a private woodwind instructor for 23 years and enjoyed 12 years as a stay-at-home mom. She is currently a band director at Greece Athena High School. She is a former member of the Perinton Concert Band and the Greater Rochester Music Educators Wind Band under the direction of Corky Fabrizio.

Lindsey is the founding director of the Honeoye Falls Community Concert Band and has been its only permanent director since 1988. Under her leadership, the band has grown from 18 members to 70. She thoroughly appreciates the dedication of its members as well as the warm rapport that is one of the hallmarks of the band.

Currently, Lindsey resides in Honeoye Falls with her husband, Mark, who plays French Horn and euphonium in the band and is the band director at Honeoye Falls-Lima High School, and their three daughters - Kelsey, Emily and Amanda. Her father-in-law was a founding member of the HFCCB and her oldest daughter has recently joined the band. In her spare time, she is a Girl Scout leader, and enjoys camping, hiking, reading, and gardening.