Community Music
Episode #1906
Think of gazebos and city parks and you might think band concerts. Community bands are a tradition in Maine, and this week we’ll look at three ways the tradition is being kept alive with brass bands, steel drums and fiddles. Lou McNally hosts the show from East Blue Hill, where the local library is raising money with a concert by their local favorite, Flash in the Pan community steel drum orchestra. We’ll also visit the Bath Municipal Band, a local tradition at ship launchings and park concerts for over a hundred years. And we’ll stop in at a rehearsal of one of the newer community music groups around, Fiddle-icious in West Falmouth.
