The Ephrata Concert Band will perform on Sunday, July 7, at 7:15 p.m. in the band shell at Ephrata Borough's Grater Park. Martin Hinkley will conduct the band.
The public is encouraged to bring folding chairs. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will move inside the Ephrata Recreation Center, 130 S. Academy Drive.
The program will open with "The Star-Spangled Banner" and continue with Sousa's 1893 march "Liberty Bell," Grundman's "An American Scene," Sousa's march "America First," and Henry Fillmore's march "Americans We." Additional selections in the first half will be Bagley's march "American Emblem," a musical salute to the U.S. armed forces, Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," Cohan's "Over There" and other tunes from World War I, and Sousa's march "Stars and Stripes Forever."
The concert will also feature the hymn "Abide With Me," the galop tune "Homestretch," a selection from Fillmore's "The Poet, Peasant and Light Cavalryman," the classical "Solvejg's Song" and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone."
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