NEWS AND SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
HAYWOOD COMMUNITY BAND
Presents
FREE CONCERTS
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THE BAND IS CURRENTLY ON HIATUS UNTIL THE 2012 SEASON. RETURN HERE FOR UPDATES
Maggie Valley Concert Series
Third Sunday Each Month, May thru October
6:30 PM - Maggie Valley Pavilion next to Town Hall
For more information, visit our web site at www.haywoodcommunityband.org/ or call Rhonda Wilson Kram at 456-4880.
The band wishes to thank our loyal concert goers who followed our schedule starting with the May concert. In addition, we wish to thank the media for giving us space in their publications and broadcast time.
Band rehearsals are held at Grace In The Mountains Episcopal Church, 394 Haywood Street in Waynesville. The first rehearsal will take place on Thursday, March 3 at 6:45 PM. All subsequent rehearsals will be held on Thursdays at 7:00 PM, and will last about one and one half hours. Anyone interested in joining the Haywood Community Band should call Rhonda Wilson Kram at 456-4880. Visit our Web Site at www.haywoodcommunityband.org
Donations of band instruments which are no longer needed at home, are accepted, refurbished, and loaned to local school band students for their use. The Community Band selects high school students from Tuscola High School, and Pisgah High School in the Spring for scholarships to attend summer music camp programs.
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The band meets weekly on Thursdays at 7 PM at Grace Episcopal Church, 394 N. Haywood Street in Waynesville. All interested concert band musicians are welcome to attend.
Donations to the band are gratefully accepted to keep up with expenses such as purchasing music, and repairing the "LINKS" instruments which are on loan to school musicians. L.I.N.K.S., Lonely Instruments Needing Kids, is a program that accepts donated new and used musical instruments which are refurbished, as needed, and are loaned to school musicians.
FOURTH ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS AWARD (Watch this space for scholarship announcements for 2011)
The Haywood Community Band provides two summer music camp scholarships (2010 allowed three) to students in the band programs at both Tuscola High School and Pisgah High School. Criteria for the scholarships include instrumental experience, interest and enthusiasm. Recommendations from the school band directors are
also used by the Scholarship Committee to determine the scholarship recipients.
The Haywood Community Band is pleased to announce the 2010 scholarship winners: Sarah Rogers and Brandon Truitt from Tuscola High School, and Lori Neri from Pisgah High School.
This will be the fourth year the Community Band has offered scholarships to local students using funds that are donated to the band.
Free concerts are played in Maggie Valley on the third Sunday of each month, May through October. All concerts start at 6:30 PM at the Pavilion next to the Town Hall.
2011 CONCERT SCHEDULE
Watch this space for concert themes and dates.
