March 2016
Volume 22 Number 11
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River City Brass.
Pittsburgh hosts national music convention and offers four evenings of free public concerts The East Winds Symphonic Band has been chosen to host the 38th annual national convention of the Association of Concert Bands from March 30 to April 3 in Pittsburgh. The festivities will include four evenings of free concerts, called “Three Rivers Rhapsody,” at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland, with a feature
performance by Pittsburgh’s own River City Brass on opening night. The concerts are open to the public and to all ages. The concert series will launch on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m. In addition to the River City Brass, three community bands will perform—the East Winds
Symphonic Band, West Hills Symphonic Band and Allegheny Brass Band—as well as other bands from eastern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Maryland. The festival finale on Saturday, April 2 will include a performance by the Convention
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