Welcome to the Moore County Concert Band

The Moore County Concert Band
"North Carolina's Sweet Sounds of the Sandhills"

David Seiberling, Musical Director

Next Free Concert
Sunday, November13, 2011
2:00 PM Carolina Hotel
 (Check the 2011-12 Schedule)
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Moore County Concert Band
P. O. Box 4662
Pinehurst, North Carolina 28374

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We are truly grateful for the support we receive from the Sandhills Community College for a place to rehearse and the Carolina Hotel of the Pinehurst Resort for hosting our concerts. Click on their logos for thier web sites.

Veterans Weekend - Sea Songs & Tributes
November 13, 2:00 PM

Our November 13 Concert is a potpourri of tributes to veterans around the world as well as songs of the sea. Our guest soloist was principal tuba player with the United States Coast Guard Band. We will honor her as well as all Coast Guard veterans by playing “Semper Paratus”, the official Coast Guard song.

“Sea Songs” is an arrangement of old British sea-songs by the noted English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. It is based on three sea-chantey songs "Princess Royal", "Admiral Benbow" and "Portsmouth". The march was originally arranged for military band in 1923 as the second movement of “English Folk Song Suite”.

We'll bring you back to the 20th Century with highlights from “South Pacific” by Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers. There's a wonderful hymn called “The Mansions of the Lord” from the movie “We Were Soldiers”. Then there's a tribute to the Australian Army Band Corps called “The Roaring Forties”. Along the way we'll have some other marches and those wonderful tuba solos by Joanna Ross Hersey.

 

 

 

 


Dr. Joanna Ross Hersey, our soloist, is Assistant Professor of Low Brass at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where she teaches trombone, euphonium and tuba and conducts the Low Brass Ensemble. Joanna received a Master of Music in Tuba Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Tuba Performance from the Hartt School.

As Principal Tubist with the United States Coast Guard Band, Joanna performed throughout the country as a soloist and clinician after winning the position at the age of nineteen. Joanna has played for three U.S. Presidents, performed at numerous state functions for visiting dignitaries, and has appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America. In her freelance career she has performed with numerous famous artists. She can also be heard on group and solo CD's.