From BOWLING GREEN AREA COMMUNITY BANDS
While the weather outside may be frightful, come join the Bowling Green Area Community Bands as they perform their concert “Christmas Treasures: Youthful Innocence and Sacred Light” on Sunday, Dec. 17 at 4 p.m., at the Bowling Green Schools Performing Arts Center, 530 West Poe Road.
The concert is free. Doors open at 3:30 p.m.
The concert band, under the direction of Thomas R. Headley, with guest conductors from the band including Roy Young (tuba), Catherine P. Lewis (bassoon), Karen Smith (saxophone), and Karen Kelly (bass clarinet), will start off the concert with musical selections that evoke childhood memories and youthful innocence including “Toy Soldier Marches,” “Christmas Day,” “Mary’s Little Boy Child,” and “Twelve Days of Christmas.” Soprano soloist and 2023 BG Bobcat alum Maggie Titus, who is currently pursuing a degree in musical theatre from Ohio Northern University, will join the band on stage for “A Grown-Up Christmas List.”
Instrumental soloists in the first half of the concert include Brian Bushong, trumpet, and Kim Kucharski, flute.
The BiG Band BG, under the direction of Rob Cintron and Brian Bushong, will perform “Greensleeves” featuring Dan Shellhas on alto sax; “Charlie Brown Christmas”; and“White Christmas” featuring the band’s favorite vocalist, Liz Green, and Brian Bushong on trumpet.
The final portion of the concert, “Christmas Treasures: Sacred Light” will open with the distinctive sounds of percussion in “When You Hear the Drum” followed by sacred Christmas songs including on “This Day Earth Shall Ring,” “All is Calm,” “Away in a Manger,” and “O Holy Night.” Soloists include Adam Young, trumpet, Eryn Dael, French horn, Teresa Disbrow, clarinet, and Maggie Titus, soprano.
For more information about the bands, visit www.bgacb.org and Facebook.
