The New Holland Band will present their annual spring concert on Sunday, March 23, at 3 p.m. in Good Shepherd Chapel at Lancaster Bible College, 901 Eden Road, Lancaster.

The annual concert, usually held in March, began in the late 1950s and marks the beginning of the ensemble's performance season.

Music director Fred Hughes has chosen a program that includes Ludwig van Beethoven's overture to the Johann Wolfgang van Goethe play "Egmont," Aaron Copland's "Variations on a Shaker Melody," and Leonard Bernstein's overture to the operetta "Candide." Marches will include Karl King's "The Melody Shop" and "The Purple Pageant" and Kenneth Alford's "On the Quarter Deck." Due to renewed interest in L. Frank Baum's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," the program will include music from both the movie "The Wizard of Oz" and the Broadway musical "Wicked."

The featured soloists for the concert will include principal flutist Georgia Dimaano and principal tubist George DeMers.

Dimaano, who grew up in Lititz, studied flute with Ray Kauffman, Edie Overly, and Joel Behrens. She has been with the New Holland Band since 1989 and is the founder of the Pennsylvania Flute Choir. She will perform "Traume im Herbst" by Harald Kolasch.

DeMers is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where he performed regularly in various ensembles, including the Blue Band, and he has studied with Gerald Mickey, Mark Lusk, Eric Henry, and Grant Moore. He will perform "Yorkshire Ballad" by James Barnes.

To purchase tickets, visit http://www.simpletix.com/e/spring-concert-2025-tickets-199452 or call 717-355-5096. Admission is free for children and students.

To learn more about the New Holland Band, visit http://www.newhollandband.org or email info@newhollandband.org.