JOHNSON, VERMONT — The Johnson State College Concert Band and the JSC World Music Ensemble will perform Dec. 15 at Dibden Center for the Arts on campus.

Admission to the 7 p.m. concert is $5 suggested donation for the public and free with a JSC ID.

The Concert Band, consisting of 50 members, half students and half community members, directed by JSC professor Steven Light, will perform a variety of pieces from jazz to classical from the U.S., Russia, Spain, the Middle East, Australia and other regions.

Light also directs the World Music Ensemble, made up of members of the Worlds of Music course, which will perform pieces from Ghana, Japan, Java and Macedonia. For some pieces, students built instruments, including African mbiras, or thumb pianos, and Japanese kotos, which are plucked stringed instruments. The students will also play a set of Javanese gamelan instruments, which include metal xylophone instruments in lots of sizes, copper bowls, old milking strainers and huge iron gongs.

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