(File photo) Press release The Batavia Concert Band will be returning for its 101st year of free public concerts in Batavia’s Centennial Park (the rain venue is the Stuart Steiner Theatre at Genesee Community College). Concerts will be held on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on July 2, July 9, July …
File photo 2024 The Batavia Concert Band is beginning its 101st season and is actively recruiting youth musicians to join us for a couple of amazing concerts in beautiful Centennial Park this summer! Eligible student musicians need to be able to play level 2/3 music. SESSION ONE (1) Tues. July 8th | Rehearsal, 5:45-6:45PM …
Joey Pero and the Batavia Concert Band performed “Ever Blue and White” for the first time in public at Centennial Park in Batavia on Wednesday evening. Pero created the song, melding together two Batavia High School alma mater songs Ever Batavia and The Blue and White. Pero has gifted the …
Pictured-left to right- Batavia Concert Band members, Josh Pacino/Librarian/Historian, Jason Smith/General Manager, Joey Pero/1997-99, and John Bailey/Conductor at Tuesday evening’s creation session at GCC. When Batavia Concert Band Manager Jason Smith approached Batavia native Joey Pero about playing with the band for their Centennial Celebration, Pero wanted to come up …