The fourth annual National Community Concert Band Sousa Festival will be June 24-26, 2011 in Washington, DC and Alexandria, Virginia. Why am I mentioning it here? Well, because some of the gals in the picture are from Santa Barbara. I met them when they came up to Lacey for the New Horizons Band Summer Camp and some members of our New Horizons Band have joined them when they hosted the Cambria Band Camp in California. What is really exciting is that the Santa Barbara "Prime Time Band" applied and was chosen as one of six bands to play at the Souza festival next summer. The Prime Time Band is also an affiliate of over 170 bands that belong to the New Horizons International Music Association located throughout the USA, Canada and Australia, for people 50 years and older. We have three musicians who are 90, are still love making music and on two of the more difficult instruments if you want my opinion: the oboe and the trumpet.
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