The Kamloops Community Band is set to perform on Wednesday, March 15, to raise money for its annual Richard Dickens Music Scholarship and, new this year, for the Donald Bennett Music Legacy Fund.
Richard Dickens founded the Kamloops Community Band in 2001 as a place for young people, teachers, retirees and other community members to play music.
After he died in 2009, the scholarship was created in his memory.
It provides $2,000 per year for four years to an exemplary music student who plans to continue their music education at the post-secondary level.
The Donald Bennett Music Legacy Fund was established to remember Don Bennett, who died in 2020 and left a 35-year legacy of music education in Kamloops.
The March 15 Play Like the Dickens concert will feature energetic marches and a mix of the classic wind band repertoire, including
Holst’s First Suite in Eb and other band arrangements like Toto’s Africa.
Special guests will include a cappella quartet Slow No Tempo and the South Kamloops secondary jazz band.
The event will take place at the Kamloops Full Gospel Tabernacle on the North Shore, 1550 Tranquille Rd.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at kamloopsband.eventbrite.ca.
