A Merrimack Valley Holiday Concert
2023
About Our Band
The Merrimack Valley Concert Band (MVCB) is a local non-profit community band based at the Pentucket Regional School District in West Newbury, MA. We are a group of people who love music. It's really that simple.
We love to play and perform from "The Great American Songbook" in its broadest interpretation.
The Band’s purpose is to provide member musicians and the public with opportunities to develop and enhance musical skills, education, and enjoyment, through rehearsals and community concert performances.
MVCB includes members from many towns in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine; the ages and music backgrounds of the band members are as varied as the towns from which they come. Currently, the Band has approximately fifty members with room for lots more!
We hope you enjoy an evening of some of our favorite holiday pieces.
Program
Angels of Joy! ~ Arr. by Patrick Roszell
A Carmen Christmas ~ Arr. by Randall D. Standridge
Underneath the Tree ~ Arr. by Peter H. Glass
Mary’s Boy Child ~ Arr.by Philip Sparke
Midnight Sleighride ~ Arr. by Tom Wallace
Still, Still, Still ~ Arr. by Ed Huckeby
Hanukkah Highlights ~ Arr. by Chris Sharp
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas ~ Arr. by Jack Bullock
The Polar Express ~ Arr. by Jerry Brubaker
Intermission
A Christmas Carol ~ Arr. by Randall D. Standridge
Dashing Through the Snow ~ Arr. by Richard L. Saucedo
Carol of the Drum ~ Arr. by Floyd E. Werle
Christmas Lights ~ Arr. by Chris Sharp
A Winter’s Night ~ Arr. by Rick Kirby
Christmas “Pop” Sing-a-Long ~ Arr. by James D. Ployhar
Please join us in a
Christmas “Pop”
Sing-a-Long
You better watch out, you better not cry,
Better not pout, I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is comin’ to town
He’s making a list and checking it twice,
Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice,
Santa Claus is coming to town.
He sees you when you’re sleep-in’,
He knows when you’re awake,
He knows if you’ve been bad or good,
so be good for good-ness sake.
Oh! You better watch out,
You better not cry,
Better not pout, I’m telling you why:
Santa Claus is com-in’ to town.
♫
City side walks, busy sidewalks
dressed in holiday style
In the air there’s a feeling of Christmas
Children laughing, people passing,
meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you hear
Silver bells, silver bells,
It’s Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling,
hear them ring,
Soon it will be Christmas Day
♫
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer,
had a very shiny nose,
and if you ever saw it,
you would even say it glows
All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names;
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say:
“Rudolph, with your nose so bright,
won’t you guide my sleigh to-night?”
Then all reindeer loved him,
as they shouted out with glee:
“Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer,
You’ll go down in history!
♫
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
let your heart be light,
From now on our troubles will be out of sight.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
make the yuletide gay,
From now on our troubles will be miles away.
Here we are as in the olden days,
happy golden days of yore,
Faithful friends who are dear to us
gather near to us, once more.
Through the years we all will be together,
if the fates allow,
hang a shining star upon the highest bough,
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now!
from the
Merrimack Valley
Concert Band!
Anthony Beatrice, Music Director
Cathy Gauthier, Assistant-Music Director
Flute
Carolyn Desmarais
Kerri Doucette
Kathy Peavey
Linda St. Marie
Oboe
Kyria Magan
Betsy Webb
Clarinet
Donna Cohen
Kaycee Currier
Kerry Goodwin
Karen Johnson
Greg Lyons
Steve Nadler
Laurie Paszko
Bass Clarinet
Glenn Guarante
Bassoon
Lynne Jeffries
Baritone Saxophone
Roy Lavender
Alto Saxophone
Christine Berube
Jan Juntunen
Kate McGrade
Larry Pare
Christine Paryl
Tenor Saxophone
Bob Belmont
Katelyn Haggerty
French Horn
Cathy Gauthier
Kendra Hackett
Virginia Spinney
Trumpet
Mike Abusheery
Gerald Guilfoy
David Jermain
Maria Karavetsos
Marcus Lisle
Joel Swan
Euphonium
Valerie Hermanson
Rhonda McDonough
Trombone
Kevin Berube
Brian Jeffries
Jim Murphy
Ron Paryl
Kenneth Sharp
Tuba
Al Bernard
Adam Meltzer
Percussion
Sherry Freeburn
Jill McCutcheon
Jacob Peavey
Piano
Ethan Hackett
Vocals
Kathy Peavey
Narrator
Don St. Marie
Sound/Lighting
Aaron Peavey