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A Merrimack Valley Holiday Concert

2023

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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.

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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!

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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

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