The Estes Park Village Band will present its annual Fourth of July Concert at Performance Park, Estes Park’s beautiful outdoor performance facility located on West Elkhorn Avenue. The free concert, featuring patriotic music and marches, will begin at 7:00 pm. Audience members are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets. The concert will be performed, rain or shine, and will conclude by 8:15 pm, so audience members can travel to their favorite fireworks-viewing area before the fireworks show begins at 9:30 pm.

The band will be performing a variety of patriotic selections celebrating America’s history, culture and traditions through music. Free American flags will be distributed to the audience before the concert begins.

This is the band’s 43rd year of performing for the Estes Park community and its visitors. Sharing the conducting duties for Saturday’s program will be Judy Vasel, Melinda Workman and Chuck Varilek.

The concert will begin as it always does, with the “Star Spangled Banner”. Other patriotic songs the audience will hear include “This Is My Country,” “America The Beautiful,” and “American Riversongs.”

There will be no shortage of marches performed at this concert. You can expect to hear Karl King’s “Imperial March,” and Henry Fillmore’s “Men Of Ohio March.”

The band will also perform Glenn Miller’s “In The Mood” and a medley of George M. Cohan’s hits, including “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “You’re A Grand Old Flag.”Scott Anderson will be featured as a vocal soloist on “This Is My Country” and “The Ultimate Patriotic Sing-Along,” both arranged by Estes Park resident Jerry Brubaker.

The Village Band will perform “Amazing Grace”, remembering the people who died on Sept. 11, 2001 in the terrorist attacks on America.

In what has become an Estes Park tradition, the Village Band will honor our military in the performance of a special selection, “Armed Forces Salute”. Directed by Workman, this arrangement features the theme songs of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines and Air Force. Members of the audience who have served or are currently serving in the Armed Forces, and their family members, will be asked to stand and be recognized with applause during the performance of their service theme song.

The band will conclude their concert with their traditional closing march, “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Philip Sousa.

The Estes Park Village Band is a community band made up of musicians from the Estes Park area as well as from surrounding communities. The band received its 501c3 tax-exempt status in 2023 and now has its own website, www.estesparkvillageband.com. New members are always welcome to perform with the band.

For more information, contact Chuck Varilek at 970-227-8704.