Meridian Community Band

Carolyn Sherrill, conductor

Okemos, Michigan

The Meridian Community Band was established in 1977 as part of the Okemos Community Education program and became an independent non-profit organization in 1983. The band offers its 100+ members five seasonal series in which to participate. The Autumn, Holiday, Festival, Spring and Summer sessions each have their own focus concerts. Membership in this non-auditioned band is as diverse as the community-at-large. Several senior citizen outreach performances are among the band’s fifteen yearly concerts.

Since 1990 the band has been under the leadership of Carolyn Sherrill, who has overseen the band’s growth and development from 36 members to its current size and instrumentation. She has helped to establish both the Grand Sousa Concert and the Red Cedar Festival of Community Bands as annual events for the band. Her innovative leadership has set the band on an exciting and rewarding path of community service and musicianship.

3:30 - 4:10 p.m.

Program of Musical Selections

March Carillon ................................ Hanson/Leidzén

Cajun Folk Songs II ..................................... Ticheli

Ballad

Country Dance

The Fire of Eternal Glory ........ Shostakovich/Rhea

Rikudim ............................................... Van der Roost

Army of the Nile .................................... Alford