40TH ARMY BAND TO PERFORM

The Vermont National Guard and the Office of the Adjutant General are proud to present “Vermont’s Own” 40th Army Band Concert Band performing a free concert on Sunday December 2, 2012 at 2:00 PM at The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe, Vermont. The program, “Vermont Holiday Treasures” will feature holiday favorites including Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride,” selections from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Chanukah is Here,” and a telling of the poem “’Twas the Night Before Christmas”. This holiday concert will feature Tim Kavanagh as the guest announcer and narrator, and the event will be videotaped by RETN for broadcast at a later date.

Chief Warrant Officer David A. Myers, bandmaster, will be conducting the band. Chief Myers has been a member of the band for over thirty years, serving as stage band director and staff composer before assuming command of the group in 1996. He is well known throughout Vermont and nationally as a composer and conductor of band music.

Gary Moreau, the featured solo vocalist on “O Holy Night,” is a native of Burlington, Vermont and received his B.S. in Music Education and M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instructional Development from the University of Vermont. Mr. Moreau has performed extensively throughout Vermont and internationally in Quebec City and Rome.

Members of the 40th Army Band serve one weekend a month and two weeks of Annual Training each year in the Vermont Army National Guard. As civilians the rest of the year, they are engaged in such diverse occupations as education, law, security, technology, medical, and sales.

The concert is free and open to the public. We encourage you to reserve tickets by visiting The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center's web page www.sprucepeakarts.org and click on events and tickets, or you can call the box office at (802) 760-4634. Tickets will be available beginning Thursday November 8, 2012. The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center is located at 122 Hourglass Drive, Stowe, Vermont, at the base of the Spruce Peak area of Stowe Mountain Resort.

For further information about the 40th Army Band, call the unit's office in Colchester, weekdays, at
338-3480, or you can find them on the internet at www.vtguard.com/band or on Facebook and Twitter at 40th Army Band.