PENSACOLA — The Pensacola Civic Band’s free Memorial Day Concert is set for 5 p.m. Monday, May 30 at the Vince J. Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park’s Hunter Amphitheater.
Selections will include music from the World War II epic series, “Band of Brothers,” and “American Pageant,” composed by Thomas Knox of the U.S. Marine Band and played at every presidential inauguration since the early 1970s.
Guests will include the Rev. Gerald Mundy reciting the speech that Gen. Douglas McArthur gave at West Point in 1962, “Duty, Honor, Country,” and vocalist Holly Shelton singing the Lee Greenwood classic, “God Bless the USA.”
Pearl Harbor Survivor Frank Emond will recount his experience during a performance of Jay Bocook’s “At Dawn They Slept.” The 98-year-old retired musician will then conduct to John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
The Pensacola Civic Band invites any veterans organizations to attend and be recognized, as well as families of veterans lost in service of our country. These organizations should contact PCB Publicity Chairman Lewis Garvin at 291-8331 or lgarvin81@gmail.com.
The park is located at 301 W. Main St., Pensacola. See www.pensacolacivicband.org for more details about the band.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Memorial Day concert set May 30