Benefit concert set for Aug. 22
EAST WOODSTOCK — The East Woodstock Cornet Band will be performing a benefit concert for Horns for Kids, a nonprofit organization that provides musical instruments to school children in Connecticut.
The concert will be at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 22 at the Clark Memorial Chapel at Pomfret School. Tax deductible monetary donations will be accepted at the door and will help to refurbish donated used instruments, which are then given to requesting schools on a need basis.
Parking will be on the east side of Pomfret Street (Rt. 169), opposite the Chapel. For further information, contact East Woodstock Cornet Band president, Maxine Marcy, at (860) 942-4628, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Under the leadership of Vincent LaMonica, a multi-faceted performer, conductor and educator, the East Woodstock Cornet Band is a concert band comprised of approximately 35 musicians from Woodstock and the surrounding area, as well as Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Their repertoire is a wide variety of music from overtures and classical music to marches, show tunes and pop. As a special feature of this event, LaMonica will be performing a bassoon solo titled Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble, Movements II (Allegro Vivace) and III (Largo) by Eric Ewazen.

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