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A Merrimack Valley Holiday Concert

2025

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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. 

We would like to thank the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association (AHEPA) of Haverhill for their generous donation to our band this year.

Each year we award a scholarship to a Pentucket High School student to further their music education. Click here for more information and to donate to our scholarship fund. 

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

 

All I Want For Christmas Is You ~ Arr. by Larry Kerchner

 

A Home Alone Christmas ~ Arr. by Paul Lavender

 

Hanukkah Highlights ~ Arr. by Chris Sharp

The Polar Express ~ Arr. by Paul Murtha & Audrey Snyder

Kathy Peavey & MVCB Choir - Vocals

 

Underneath the Tree ~ Arr. by Peter H. Glass

Nutcracker Suite ~ Arr. by Robert Longfield

 

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas ~ Arr. by Jack Bullock

Don St. Marie - Narrator

 

 

Intermission

 

Dashing Through the Snow ~ Arr. by Richard L. Saucedo

 

African Holy Night ~ Arr. by Robert W. Smith

 

Too Much Percussion for Christmas!  (Trash the Halls) ~ Arr. by Randall Standridge

                         

Chanukah Medley ~ Arr. by Bud Caputo

 

Fum, Fum, Fum ~ Arr. by Robert Longfield

 

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

Michele Buchanan

Judy Citron

Carolyn Desmarais

Kerri Doucette

Kathy Peavey*

Susan Provencher

Linda St. Marie*

 

Oboe

Kyria Magan*

 

Clarinet

Barbara Brandt

Lisa Coe*

Donna Cohen

Karen Johnson*

Greg Lyons

Suzanne Neuman*

Laurie Paszko 

John Wade

 

Bassoon

Laura Berube

Lynne Jeffries

 

Bass 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*

Virginia Spinney

Ben Wheat

Nina Wheat

 

Trumpet

Mike Abusheery

Drew Currie

Abby Densmore

Gerald Guilfoy

Maria Karavetsos

Joel Swan

 

Euphonium/Bass Trumpet

Valerie Hermanson

Marcus Lisle

Rhonda McDonough

 

Trombone

Kevin Berube

Brian Jeffries

Garrett Maille

Keith Melvin*

Jim Murphy

Ron Paryl*

Kenneth Sharp*

Shawn Sobelman

 

Tuba

Al Bernard

 

Percussion

Sherry Freeburn

Jill McCutcheon

Jacob Peavey 

 

Piano

Lisa Coe

 

Vocals

Kathy Peavey

 

Narrator

Don St. Marie

 

Sound/Lighting

Aaron Peavey

* Denotes MVCB Choir

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