Rehearsals have begun for the Great Geauga County Fair Band's 78th season, and band director Greg Hillis has issued an open call…
Open Call for Musicians
Rehearsals have begun for the Great Geauga County Fair Band’s 78th season, and band director Greg Hillis has issued an open call for musicians, age 15 and older, to join the all-volunteer concert band.
Rehearsals are held every Tuesday from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Berkshire High School band room from March 22 through May 31, and then move to the band pavilion on the Geauga County Fairgrounds in Burton for the remainder of the 2016 season.
The band’s first appearance will be at the Geauga County Maple Festival Parade on April 23 and 24, and the first formal band concert will be held at St. Anselm’s Church in Chester Township on May 29. The season will culminate with twice-daily performances at the Great Geauga County Fair Sept. 2-5.
For more information about the band and 2016 season, call 440-299-7872 or visit www.geaugafairband.com.
Words And Wine
April 5, 6:30 p.m.
Grace Butcher, of Chardon, will be the featured poet at Your Vine or Mine?, 154 Main St. in Painesville. Open mic for poetry will precede her reading.
The Ohio Poet of the Year in 1992, Butcher taught English for over 25 years at the Geauga campus of Kent State University and has published five books of poetry and a collection of her columns in Rider, a motorcycle magazine.
For more information, contact Margie DeLong at 440-298-1397.
