PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles High School will be a center of music for the next two weeks, beginning tonight with a 7:30 band concert in the performing arts center at 304 E. Park Ave.
The free concert will feature five bands, including the Wind Ensemble that will perform at the Wind Ensemble Festival at Central Washington University in Ellensburg this weekend, and nearly 100 student musicians who will perform in Washington, D.C., in April.
The performing arts center also will be host to the North Olympic Music Educators Band Assessment beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
The assessment, a regional band festival for middle and high schools, will feature 10 bands from the North Olympic Peninsula and a guest band from Liberty Middle School in Tacoma.
Entry to the festival is free and open to the public.
The Stevens Middle School spring band concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 1139 W. 14th St. in Port Angeles.
The music switches to orchestras at 7:30 p.m. on March 11 when the high school’s orchestra will hold a free concert in the auditorium.
It will feature the Chamber Orchestra, which will perform this weekend at the Northwest Orchestra Festival in Gresham, Ore.
Port Angeles High will host the North Olympic Music Educators Orchestra Assessment beginning at 8 a.m. March 12.
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Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5070, or at arwyn.rice@peninsuladailynews.com.
