The Laurentian Concert Band wraps up its ninth season April 2 with a concert dubbed Fêtes and Fandango.
The performance takes place starting at 2 p.m. in the Alphonse Raymond Auditorium on Laurentian University's campus.
Featured are special guests Geoffrey Tiller on trumpet and Charlotte Leonard on trombone — both musicians are professors in Laurentian's music department.
The Laurentian Concert Band, directed by Sally Lesk, consists of 38 woodwinds, brasses, and percussionists, many of whom are students majoring in music at the university, along with several others who are studying in other Laurentian programs while continuing to keep music in their lives.
Rounding out the membership are a number of community musicians from all walks of life. What they all have in common is a love of performing some of the best repertoire written for concert band.
In celebration of the country's 150th birthday, the concert features great Canadian music, from The Maple Leaf Forever, to the Banks of Newfoundland, to Place St. Henri by Montreal jazz legend Oscar Peterson, and everything in between.
The band will also pay tribute to 40 years of Star Wars by performing three tunes from those outstanding movies.
It will also accompany Tiller and Leonard as soloists in a Latin tune called Fandango.
Admission costs $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors at the door. All proceeds go to the Laurentian Department of Music.
