The Ohio University Southern Community Band will give its first performance of the new year on Monday, March 13, at Ironton Briggs Library, 321 S. Fourth St., in Ironton. The program, titled “Music of the British Isles”, features marches, ballads, folk songs, and dance music rooted in the Celtic traditions. Admission is free and open to the public.

The community band is a small concert band consisting of 15-20 students and non-students from the greater Tri-State area which performs several times a year on and off campus.

Participants come from all walks of life and range in age from teenagers to those in their 70s.

The band performs standard concert band arrangements, ranging from easy to medium difficulty, and representing a variety of musical styles and genres. These include: marches, music from musicals and TV shows, pop music (including jazz, ragtime, rock & roll), and arrangements of major orchestra works. The band also performs pops, Civil War/patriotic, and Christmas-themed programs.

The Ohio University Southern Community Band is always looking for new members.

The band rehearses from 6-7:30 p.m. on Monday, in the Campus and Community Building, corner of Seventh St. and Bob Lutz Way, in Ironton. There is no audition. High school band experience, basic music reading and musicianship skills, and access to a woodwind or brass instrument is required. Percussion instruments are provided. Several of the members joined the band after decades of not playing an instrument and have flourished.