Midcoast Community Band Tidings of Joy: Part 2
The Midcoast Community Band will offer its second winter concert – Tidings
of Joy: Part 2 - on Friday evening, December 19th, 2025 at the Thomaston Baptist
Church at 212 Main Street. The concert will begin at 7:00 P. M. under the direction
of Jo Anne Parker, who is wrapping up her 38th year fronting the band. Members
of the band are from all over the midcoast area, and is made up of members young
and old, from ages 15 to 84 – a true community band.
 
    The program will feature Christmas music - a blend of familiar and not so
familiar tunes, including the popular audience sing-along of favorite carols.
Parker’s voice student, Ashley Corbett of Cushing - a senior at Oceanside High
School, will sing “Grown-Up Christmas List”, accompanied by the band, and will
also lead the singalong. Other pieces on the program will be “My Dancing Day” (a
traditional English carol), “Divinum Mysterium” – a beautiful setting by James
Swearingen of the Advent hymn “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”, “A Canadian
Brass Christmas Suite”, “Christmas Through the Ages” – a blend of classical music
with Christmas songs, “On This Day Earth Shall Ring” by Gustav Holst, along with
the Leroy Anderson favorites “Sleigh Ride” and “A Christmas Festival”. On a lighter
note, the program will include “Santa Baby” and “Feliz Navidad” (with lots of fun
percussion).

Next year, the band will be celebrating its 40th year of music making, with
lots of special events in the works already.
 
    Admission to Friday’s concert is free, but donations for the band will be
gratefully appreciated. For further information, please contact Jo Anne Parker at
knitmusic@roadrunner.com.
 
Jo Anne Parker
372-6737