From BOWLING GREEN AREA COMMUNITY BANDS
A Mid-Winter Concert of “Travelin’ Music’” will be presented by the Bowling Green Area Community Bands on Sunday, March 9 at 4 p.m.
Travel to the Bowling Green Schools Performing Arts Center to escape the Ohio winter weather and hear selections of music taking listeners on a world-wide musical tour, from England to Africa and Spain.
For Sunday’s performance, under the direction of Assistant Conductor Catherine Lewis, the band will perform selections including: “The Arkansas Traveler,” “Yorkshire Ballad,” “Courage of the Cossacks,” “Rikudium,” and more.
The percussion section will be featured, along with several soloists in Robert Smith’s “Africa: Ceremony, Song and Ritual.”
Listeners will continue their travels down U.S. Route 66, with Big Band BG, performing “Route 66.” Led by Rob Cintron and Brian Bushong, the
band will play three selections at the mid-point of the concert. Other selections include Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia” and finally Charles Mingus’ “Nostalgia in Times Square.”
The public concert is free. Donations are welcome, to support the BGACB,
which is a 501c3 organization.
The band performs in the Bowling Green Schools Performing Arts Center at 530 West Poe Road. The facility is fully accessible to those with physical
challenges and there is ample parking.
Doors open at 3:30 p.m.
