Townsend Military Band to kick off concert series

TOWNSEND -- The Townsend Military Band will open its 2013 Thursday evening concert series on the Townsend Common on Thursday.

Weather permitting, the band will play a concert from the bandstand on the Common each Thursday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. through at least Aug. 15 with the exception of July 25. The Townsend Military Band is conducted by Dr. Jon Nicholson of Winchendon and managed by Betty Mae Tenney of Townsend.

Nine of the concerts are funded by the Town of Townsend and a 10th concert is funded by the Amanda E. Dwight Entertainment Fund. Lawn parties hosted by local organizations which feature food, activities for children, and other assorted tables are held in conjunction with these concerts.

Townsend Scout groups will be hosting the lawn party at this week's band concert. Boy Scout Troop 10 will be selling grilled hot dogs, hamburgers and Italian sausages, hot coffee, cold bottled water, and assorted flavors of soda. Boy Scout Troop 81 will be offering fried dough, cotton candy, popcorn, apple pie with ice cream, slushies, bottled water and soda for sale.

The Squannacook Girl Scouts will be doing face painting and have a decorate-your-own cupcake concession. The co-ed Venture Crew 30 will be operating a soda bottle ring toss game.

Cub Scout Pack 11 will have a bounce house and several games, including skeeball, sponge toss, bean bag toss, bottle toss, and a fishing pond set up on the Common for the enjoyment of children attending the

concert. They will also have a table.

The Townsend Military Band will open its concert program by playing a fanfare and Filmore's "Klaxon" march. The "Egmont Overture" by Beethoven, "Arias From Carmen" by Bizet, and "Symphonic Gershwin" which includes "Rhapsody In Blue," "American In Paris," and the "Cuban Overture" will be performed. Grudman's "Second American Folk Rhapsody," "Serenata" by Leroy Anderson, and King's "Circus Days" will be included in the first portion of the concert.

The "Dixieland Jamboree," featuring a Dixieland quintet in front of the band, will perform "Themes Like Old Times," "Semper Fidelis," and Bagley's "National Emblem" before the Townsend Military Band concludes its program at 9:30 p.m. by playing the "Star Spangled Banner."

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