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WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg School bands are preparing for the annual Spring Concert which will take place Monday, May 11 at 7 p.m. in the Waitsburg High School auditorium. Four bands will be performing this year.

The 5th and 6th grade bands will combine onstage for several pieces, including the new and dramatic “Sword of Fire.” The Preston Hall Band will perform pieces they played at the mass band festival earlier this year: the Colonel Bogey march and the complex Doppler Effect. In addition, they’ll play Katy Perry’s “Roar!” and the jazzy “Funkytown.”

The high school band will begin with “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” leading into the Jackson Lake Overture and a whirlwind of a song, “Chasing the Storm.” “They’ll send you out feeling good with, ‘I Feel Good’ by James Brown and ‘Purple Haze’ by Mimi Hendrix,” said Band Instructor Brad Green. “Stay to the end for punch and cookies in the Cage! Our whole Touchet Valley community is warmly invited.”