Community bands slide back into action with spring concert

Trombone section of the Bowling Green Area Community Band at fireworks concert in 2017

From BOWLING GREEN AREA COMMUNITY BANDS

The Bowling Green Area Community Bands will present a spring concert on Sunday, May 15, at 4 p.m., at the Bowling Green School Performing Arts Center (530 West Poe Road). The concert is free and doors open at 3:45 p.m.  

Join the Bands as we celebrate spring (and our return to the stage for the first time in over two years!) through the music of John Philip Sousa, Henry Fillmore, Freddie Mercury… and more! Under the baton of Thomas R. Headley and Catherine P. Lewis, the concert band will perform selections including Robert Sheldon’s Appalachian Morning; Freddie Mercury’s Bohemian RhapsodyLa Peri: Fanfare (from the 1912 Paul Dukas ballet); Jan Van der Roost’s Puszta: Four Gypsy Dances; and we will feature our wonderful trombone section in Henry Fillmore’s A Trombone Family Reunion. 

BiG Band BG with band leaders Brian Bushong and Rob Cintron will present Gordon Goodwin’s Count Bubba; Lester Young’s Lester Leaps In; and Quincy Jones’ For Lena and Lennie.  

For more information about the bands please visit our website at www.bgacb.org and follow us on Facebook.