The Pomona Concert Band will present “The Great USA,” a concert featuring music written for various regions and cities of the United States, at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Palomares Park Community Center, 499 E. Arrow Highway, Pomona.

The concert is sponsored by the city of Pomona and admission is free, according to a news release. Refreshments will be served at intermission.

Linda W. Taylor, the band’s artistic director, and assistant conductor Kerry Kline will direct the band. Master of ceremonies will be David Allen, a Southern California News Group columnist, and the color guard will be Heriberto Feliciano and Thomas Laffey.

Music of America on the program includes “Midwest March,” by J.J. Richards; “An American Elegy,” by Frank Ticheli, a USC professor emeritus of composition; “Folk Suite for Concert Band,” by William Grant Still; and “Savannah River Rhapsody,” by Robert Sheldon.

Music about American cities includes “Charleston Harbor Celebration,” by Robert Sheldon; “Sedona,” by Steven Reineke, who is music director of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall; and “Atlantic City Pageant,” a march by John Philip Sousa.

The band will close the program with Carmen Dragon’s arrangement of Samuel Ward’s “America the Beautiful.”

The concert will also feature one departure from the American theme, with Carly Miller soloing in Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, arranged by Charles T. Yeago.

The Pomona Concert Band was founded by G. Stanton Selby in 1947 as part of a Pomona American Legion Post, according to the news release.

The band has represented the city of Pomona in many events and performances over the years, including tours of Europe and Japan in 1985 and 1988.

The band also represented Pomona in 2015 with a performance at the Association of Concert Bands convention in Sacramento.

Band members come from Pomona and more than 20 surrounding communities.

For information, go to pomonaconcertband.org.