The Iowa Municipal Band Festival was born on a cool summer evening in 1991 when Ted Erickson, a long-time musician and teacher in the Boone school system, and Dave Richardson, then the high school band director, began discussing band festivals after a concert by the Boone Municipal Band. The more they discussed the possibility of a municipal band festival, the more excited they became. Within weeks they had formed a committee of volunteers, all of whom, with one exception, still make up the committee today. The original committee was Dave Richardson, Ted Erickson, Dalene O'Brien, Larry Moeller, Tom Mowen, Marilyn Goeldner and George Eckstein.