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Halloween Concert for the Kids 2023

Are you ready for a spooktacular event? The Jackson Hole Community Band has a thrilling treat in store for you this weekend for Halloween. We’re inviting everyone, especially the kids, to join us for an unforgettable Halloween Concert. The best part? Admission is absolutely free!

The Halloween Concert is an annual event hosted by the Jackson Hole Community Band. Our band members have been working tirelessly to deliver a hair-raising performance that will not only entertain but also bring together our local community. Sticking to tradition, we’re taking the fun a notch higher, with a parade and trick-or-treating. So why not make the most out of this Halloween and join us?

The concert will be held at the prestigious Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village. Known for its excellent acoustics and cozy ambiance, Walk Festival Hall is the perfect location for this concert. The spectacular surroundings of Teton Village add an extra layer of excitement to the event.

Our band members have prepared a selection of chilling tunes that will keep you on the edge of your seat. But don’t worry, our concert isn’t all scares. We’ve also included some fun and festive Halloween songs that will have everyone tapping their feet.

One of the highlights of our concert is the costume parade. We encourage all our guests to come dressed in their Halloween best. Kids and adults alike are invited to strut their stuff on our ‘parade runway’. From ghosts to goblins, superheroes to princesses, we welcome all types of costumes. So make sure to pull out all the stops!

After the concert, kids will get the chance to go trick-or-treating. We’ll have a map of stations around Teton Village where they can collect their treats. It’s a safe and fun way for kids to enjoy Halloween and make new friends.

The concert will start at 3:00 PM on Saturday October 28th. We recommend coming early to find good seats. Remember, admission is free, but we do accept donations. All proceeds will go towards supporting the Jackson Hole Community Band and our future events.

This fun-filled Halloween Concert wouldn’t be possible without our sponsors. We’re proud to be sponsored in part by the Grand Teton Music Festival. Their generous support helps us bring this community event to life.

We look forward to seeing you at the Jackson Hole Community Band Halloween Concert. It’s going to be a ghoulishly good time!

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Halloween Concert 2019

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From The Conductor

I’m so excited for this year’s Halloween Concert! We’ll be playing one of the best narrated pieces written, “Peter and the Wolf” by Sergei Prokofiev. When deciding to add this to the program, I had to think of someone who was good enough to be the narrator. My first time performing “Peter and the Wolf” had special guest narrator Leonard Nimoy. You may remember
him as Mr. Spock in the television show Star Trek. His narration was awesome and inspiring. Finding someone on parr with Nimoy in Jackson was going to be a challenge. However, since I’ve asked KJAX’s very own radio DJ DelRay to narrate, I might have found someone to beat Nimoy’s performance. DelRay and I have done lots of radio interviews in the past few years and he is one of the most joyous and animating personalities in Jackson. A few days ago, I heard him speak a line of dialogue about Peter encountering the Wolf and it gave me chills. I’m so excited to have DelRay joining us this Saturday to narrate “Peter”. So excited, in fact, I might ask him to help me with another part of the show…

“Peter and the Wolf” will be a huge chunk of the program (15 minutes!). To compliment “Peter”, I programmed a medley of John Williams horror classics. Titled “Chillers and Thrillers”, this piece features such horrifying Williams music such as the theme from “Jaws”, Voldemort’s theme from
“Harry Potter”, music from the movie “War of the Worlds” (2005) and music from “Witches of Eastwick”. As a fan of Star Wars, “Chillers and Thrillers” also features the “Imperial March” from “The Empire Strikes Back”. Who else is excited to see the last installment of the Skywalker saga this Holiday season!?

Every Halloween concert, I like to have a piece that features a special effect or instrument. My first year was a piece with a water gong. Last year featured a piece with sound tubes. This year’s “special effects” driven piece is “Haunted Clocks” by Brian Balmages. This piece showcases the percussion and flute sections. From the first measure, we hear the steady
“tick-tock” of a clock, played by temple blocks. As the piece progresses, our steady timekeeper is disrupted by the sounds of more percussion and “cuckooing” flutes layering on top of each other to their own beat. It’s not until we hear the sounds of “Big Ben” coming from the chimes that music is forced to come back on track. It’s been a fun challenge asking both sections to not follow the conductor in our rehearsals.

This year is going to be awesome! I can feel it. The musicians are really enjoying the music. DelRay is fun! There’s already snow on the ground. This’ll be the best Halloween Concert yet!

Live long and prosper,
-Zach Singer

Costume Parade

Kids and kids at heart should show off their creative talents and come in costume as well. And be prepared, all goblins and ghouls will be welcomed on stage for the annual costume parade. Get those cameras ready! Be sure to tag your photos #JHCBand.

Trick or Treat

After our traditional Adams Family sing along, the little ghosts and goblins can retrieve candy from generous local businesses. Trick-or-Treat maps will be available at the concert, or return to this page for a list of participating businesses.

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Lions & Elephants & Swans…

OH MY! Free Halloween Concert for the Kids.
October 27, – 3:00pm Teton Village, WY at Walk Festival Hall

This is my favorite time of the year. The leaves have changed colors. The wind is howling. All manner of superstitious creatures are making their way out of the shadows. Halloween season is here!

Jackson Hole Community Band 2017 Halloween Concert

To celebrate, the Community Band is performing it’s annual Halloween Concert for the Kids at Walk Festival Hall. Children, adults, and musicians will be dressing up as their favorite characters and listening to the haunting sounds of winds and percussion. We’ll be playing such classic Halloween tunes such as Danse Macabre, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue and music from the movies Dark Shadows and Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Special Appearance by Dancers Workshop Student Performers
This year will also feature a collaboration with Dancers Workshop. Our performance of Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals will have Lions, Elephants, and Swans dancing alongside the band. I would like to thank school director, Eric Midgley, for organizing and rehearsing the dancers for this event.

Sammy Douville (flute) & Jason Wright (saxophone) at the 2017 concert

It wouldn’t be a Halloween concert without our Addams Family sing-a-long. Audience members will be singing the classic tune at the end of the show with a guest singer to lead them. We’ll also invite costumed kids to march their way along the stage to the militant sounds of Gustav Holst’s Mars from his most famous work The Planets. After the show, children will have the opportunity to seek local Teton Village businesses for some trick-or-treat candy.

This year’s Halloween concert is shaping up to be the most challenging and fun that I have ever conducted. I can’t wait to see the ghouls and goblins make their way to the show and have a haunting time!

Boo!

-Zach

Flutes Anna Senecal & Noah Osnos 2017

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