Hutchinson Municipal Band announces 2025 Summer Concert Series
June 2, 2025
The Hutchinson Municipal Band is pleased to announce its 2025 Summer Concert Series beginning on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at 8 p.m. Regular Tuesday performances are June 3, June 10, June 17, June 24, and July 1. Salt City Jazz Band takes the stage July 8 and 15. All Tuesday performances will be held at the Recital Hall at Stringer Fine Arts Center on the campus of Hutchinson Community College at 8 p.m.
Through a partnership with HutchRec, the Concert and Salt City Jazz Bands will play additional performances on June 14, June 19, June 28, July 4, and July 25. Additional information regarding these concerts will be released in the coming weeks.
With a new venue, the Hutchinson Municipal Band can perform, rain or shine, using the HCC Recital Hall. The band members saw the opportunity to provide a higher quality and consistent experience through an expanded partnership with Hutchinson Community College. Kim Ivanovich, chair of the Fine Arts department, and Eric Stambaugh, concert band director of HCC, have been instrumental in using the facility. The band is grateful for their expanded support, which makes this new venue possible.
Now in its 150th year, the Hutchinson Municipal Band continues its longtime service to the Hutchinson and Reno County community by presenting its free annual Summer Concerts Series featuring the Salt City Jazz Band and the Hutchinson Municipal Band’s Concert Band.
The Hutchinson Municipal Band is one of the three oldest bands in the state and has provided free concert band music to the City of Hutchinson and Reno County since 1875. The charter of Hutchinson and early city ordinances required a military style band be maintained by the city. The Carey family helped persuade the state legislature to pass a bill that gave municipalities the authority to raise a tax exclusively for this purpose, which is the source of the current cultural fund for the City of Hutchinson. The City of Hutchinson has maintained this tax consistently since early this century and now this tax revenue is shared between multiple cultural groups. The Hutchinson Municipal Band today demonstrates the same commitment to community that has been such a strong part of Hutchinson's heritage.
It is the Band's mission to provide quality music free of charge to people of all ages, races and income levels. As part of this mission they also try to reach people who otherwise are unable to hear great music due to limits of their physical ability or residence. A secondary mission is to give people of all ages, races and professions the opportunity to play in a musical organization. Even while doing this, the musicality of the group is improving year after year, perhaps through the addition of so many new, young musicians or a new generation of conductors.
The bands (Parade Band, Concert Band, Salt City Jazz Orchestra, Big Band Explosion, Dixieland Combo, Jazz Combo, Brass Quintet and Woodwind combo) are available to play for any event.
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