Thank You
for sharing your gift and love of music with
​the Racine Concert Band for so many years !

​"2nd ANNUAL ROOTED IN RACINE CONCERT"
 Washington Park High School
 7:00 pm on Tuesday, November 1st

This will be a free concert!

Friends, Patrons, and supporters of the Racine Concert Band,

The Racine Concert Band concludes its Centennial Celebration with a free concert at Washington Park High School on Tuesday November 1st at 7 pm.
A “Rooted in Racine” concert, the program features a guest artist performance by Bill Nelson, a veteran of professional stages in the Milwaukee and Fox Valley areas and a career music educator in Ripon and Appleton schools.

The Park High School and UW-Parkside alumnus will perform the Tenor Saxophone Concerto by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Ward, and as a clarinetist in Pie in the Face Polka by Henry Mancini.
 
Parking is available in the Teacher’s Lot west of the building complex
at 1901 12th Street. The John Burns Theater is located ahead and to the right when entering the building from either 12th Street or the Teacher’s Lot.
 
The program also features the premiere of a new band version Melodia by internationally acclaimed Wisconsin native Daron Hagen in an authorized transcription by Mark Eichner.
 
Huntingtower by Ottorino Respighi, dance music by G. F. Handel, and a rousing Saint-Saëns march complete the Racine Concert band program. The combined bands will close the concert with a performance of Danny Elfman’s film music for Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”


The season continues with concerts on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7 PM at Horlick High School and on Thursday, May 25, at 7 PM at Case High School.

We hope to see you at the concerts!--
Mark Eichner
Music Director and Conductor,
Racine Concert Band

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Sunday, May 22, 2022 
Holy Communion Lutheran Church - 3:00 P.M.
2000 W. 6th Street, Racine, WI






Premiere performance of The Racine Concert Band Centennial Commission,

"Fanfare and Celebration," composed by Milwaukee composer Daniel Van Gelderen.
Supported by Funds from:

-- subsidized by the City of Racine, its generous patrons, advertisers, and corporate sponsors.

It is with great sadness that we share with you that 
​ our former band director, Del Eisch, has passed away.

Del was a career long RUSD Music Educator
 and the Conductor of the Racine Concert Band

from 1974 - 2002 and Business Manager from 2002 - 2017.
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2022 SUMMER PROGRAM

-- the Band maintains a year-round schedule:
 a summer series of 7 free concerts at the Racine Zoo, concerts in the RUSD high schools, and performs in the Fourth Fest Parade.

Summer Programs are available

when you enter the Racine Zoo.

We encourage you to patronize the businesses that have sponsored concerts and/or purchased advertisements in our program.  Don't forget to mention that you saw their ad in the concert band program. 

If you would like to sponsor a concert or buy an ad in the summer program, 

click here for more information.

The Racine Concert Band 

2022 TRAVELING EXHIBIT

Listen to past performances

Video and Audio clips of live performances by The Racine Concert Band.

Mission

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​​The Racine Concert Band presents diverse

programs of high artistic quality, in settings

that are readily accessible to the community.

The Racine Concert Band - Traveling Exhibit -
​
Celebrating the band's Centennial Year was displayed at
​ REAL RACINE (Racine County Convention and Visitors Bureau) located at 14015 Washington Avenue, in Sturtevant

​​VIEW A VIDEO ABOUT
THE BAND'S TRAVELING EXHIBIT

FEATURING ​THE
MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR
MARK EICHNER

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  CREATED BY:​

​Racine Concert Band

UW-PARKSIDE PERFORMANCE
at Bedford Hall

Saturday, January 29th, 2022

Just Click the above icon to watch!

​♫     The Band is a nonprofit - 501(c)3 organization    ♫  

The Racine Concert Band 

"The Official Band of Racine, Wisconsin since 1923"

​​♫     We are one of the oldest concert bands in     ♫

          the United States providing FREE, public 
​          concerts of high artistic integrity

2022 CONCERT SEASON

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

"100 YEARS OF FREE CONCERTS"

​
Saturday, January 29, 2022 
UW-Parkside Bedford Concert Hall - 7:00 pm

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Premiere of Into Our Father’s Arms a collaboration with composer James Crowley and the

Kenosha/Racine Poets Laureate supported by funds from the Racine Arts Council ArtSeed grant Program, and supported by the Wisconsin Arts Board and Real Racine.​​​