Enjoyable and fright? Oak Ridge Community Band’s Halloween Concert Oct. 26

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It’ll be held in Bissell Park behind the Civic Center; deliver chairs and blankets to take a seat on

Oak Ridge Community Band members are having such enjoyable rehearsing for his or her Halloween Concert, which can be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, in A.Okay. Bissell Park behind the Oak Ridge Civic Center.

Band members can be wearing Halloween costumes. We’re inviting the general public to affix us for this family-friendly occasion and put on your costumes, too. Be positive to have youngsters deliver their Halloween buckets becaue treats can be handed out in the course of the live performance’s intermission time.

Bring chairs or blankets for out of doors seating, and keep in mind, all of the Community Band concert events are free.

Directed by visitor conductors Arthur Acres, Ezekiel Schloss, Jim Hix, and David Westrich, the Halloween music program is a tremendous line-up of circus- and animal-themed music that can make sure to delight all ages. Among the tunes the band will carry out are Henry Mancini’s “Baby Elephant Walk,” Okay.L. King’s cute “The Walking Frog,” Alan Menken’s “The Little Mermaid,” and John Higgins’ association of “The Lion King,” that includes “Circle of Life,” “I Just Can’t Wait to be King,” “Be Prepared,” “Hakuna Matata, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” and “King of Pride Rock.” 

Some different alternatives on this system are Jay Bocook’s association of Saint-Saens “Carnival of the Animals,” Paul Murtha’s association of “Highlights from Brother Bear,” Randall Standridge’s “Zooveniers,” David Bobrowitz’s “Meerkats,” and extra.

In addition to distributing sweet at intermission, band members may also be gathering donations in buckets. Although all Community Band concert events are free, the band which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group has bills and enormously appreciates your generosity to this native group established in 1944. This is its 81^st 12 months of performing for Oak Ridge residents.

Want to affix?

Rehearsals are held each Thursday night on the First Baptist Church and band members come from Oak Ridge and the encompassing communities of Clinton, Oliver Springs, Harriman, Lenoir City, Knoxville, Maryville, Oneida, and Kingston. There are not any auditions and space musicians can electronic mail oakridgecommunityband.@gmail.com for extra data. The public is inspired to go to the band’s web site at www.orcb.org and in addition the band’s fb web page at www.facebook.com/OakRidgeCommunityBand.

Barbara Gritzner is a publicist and longtime Oak Ridge Community Band member.