We hope everyone enjoyed our Spring 2024 concert, “Cosmic Odyssey,” as much as we did, and that you had a chance to enjoy the total eclipse on Monday, April 8. We want to again thank the wonderful volunteers at the Star Garrison of the 51st Region for being our special guests and for taking photos with our audience members, kids and adults alike. We’ll see you again in June!
Our Music Director and Conductor Jeremy Kondrat visited with the Star Garrison members during intermission. How nice of Obi-Wan Kenobi for offering up his “baton” to our maestro for the photo!
We shared a wonderful night of festive holiday music with our largest-ever audience on Sunday, Dec. 17. Many thanks to all who joined us, and to our guest vocalist Cassidy Scott and guest pianist Jim Wilson!
The McKinney Community Band on stage at the Christ United Methodist Church for our Oct. 28 concert. Thank you to all who joined us for our stroll through a musical gallery of the emotion and imagery of four classic wind band compositions including Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. For an encore of the pieces from this performance, visit our YouTube concert playlist HERE.
Farewell, Ed Schwarz. We will miss you.
Farewell to one of our band founders, Ed Schwarz, show on the far right in this photo taken last year with our Artist Director/Conductor Jeremy Kondrat and our other co-founder Bill Sleeper. Ed passed away on April 7, 2023 at the age of 90.
To read more about how Bill and Ed started the band, click HERE.
And to read Ed’s obituary and our remembrance of him, click HERE.