The Montgomery County Civic Band will perform its patriotic playlist at 3 p.m. Sunday in the gazebo at Lane Place.
“This concert is a favorite for me and the band,” said Gary Ketchum, band director.
As always the band will open the concert with the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner.”
They will then perform “America Forever,” an original piece by former band member Melinda Zenor, and “To Soar with Broken Wings,” by Tyler Arcari, which is a piece dedicated to cancer patients.
The band will get toes tapping with the “National Emblem March” by Edwin Eugene Bagley, a standard of the U.S. march repertoire.
This will be followed by the “1812 Overture,” a popular symbol of the U.S. holiday. Ketchum said the piece won’t include cannons, but it will be loud. To enhance the performance, the band has permission to use muskets being shot into a barrel.
The band will play “Boogie, Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Elegy for the Navy Band” and the “Strategic Air Command March,” which was written by Clifton Williams as a tribute to the Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
Concert-goers also will hear the “Armed Forces Medley” and “America the Beautiful.”
The hour-long concert will end the same way as they all do with children having the opportunity to direct the band during “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Concert-goers are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or blanket. Free-will donations will be accepted.
