On Friday, December 11, 2015 at 7:00pm in the Dibden Center for the Arts on the Johnson State College Campus in Johnson, V the JSC Worlds of Music class will put down their notebooks, pick up their hand built instruments and perform music from Eastern Europe, Japan, Africa and Indonesia. They will perform a Macedonian folk song, play, sing and dance a Ghanaian song using the mbiras they built, perform a rendition of the familiar Japanese song, Sakura, on their kotos and play music from Indonesia on a full Javanese Gamelan Orchestra.

The second half of the concert will feature the 50 piece, fully instrumented JSC Concert Band playing music inspired by American folk songs including premiers of 2 pieces by the group’s director, Steven Light. There will be some familiar songs from many idioms of American music ranging from traditional folk songs to contemporary compositions to Jazz.

The concert is free and open to the public. Everyone, young, old and in-between is welcome and guaranteed to have a good time! For more information contact Steven Light or the Dibden Box Office.