Coming Events
| Sunday 10 Nov 2019 Concert 2 -Americana Bowral Memorial Hall - 2pm |
| Wednesday 11 Dec 2019 Carols at Harbison, Burradoo |
About Us
The Southern Highlands Concert Band is a community organisation which was formed with the support of Wingecarribee Shire Council in 1985 and currently has a playing membership of more than forty musicians of widely varying ages.
The central aim is twofold: to provide quality music to complement the many civic and social events within and beyond the Southern Highlands, and to make available a medium for musicians of all ages to enjoy and develop their musical abilities.
The band performs regularly at both outdoor and indoor venues and presents a regular series of public concerts.
Membership enquires are welcome from players of wind and percussion instruments and should be directed initially to the band Secretary, or other contacts shown below. This may be done at any time via telephone or email, or in person at any rehearsal.
Rehearsals are held at 7:15pm on Wednesday evenings during school terms at the Bowral Memorial Hall, Bendooley Street, Bowral.
Visitors always welcome to rehearsals
Coming up
Tulip Time
Come and listen to us in Corbett Gardens, Bowral
Sunday September 29 2019 between 1.15 and 2.00pm
Americana
Our Americana concert celebrates the music of the country that has dominated much of the modern world. The energy of a hybrid nation of migrants, refugees, slave and indigenous peoples, combined with the abundant resources and potential of the continent, found expression in many new and exciting musical forms. From the blues and spirituals of the African slaves and their descendants, through the rhythms of jazz and the advent of musical theatre and on to the rock ‘n’ roll revolution that stormed the world from the 1950s, there can be little doubt as to the significant roll America has played in the development of music over the past 150 years
No one concert could possibly do justice to the wealth of musical gems that have come out of America, but we have included a number of iconic compositions that pay tribute to the many great composers and performers of American music, and which reflect the diversity of this extraordinary musical heritage. You will hear well-known compositions from Stephen Foster, George Gershwin, John Philip Sousa, Leonard Bernstein among others, as well as songs associated with legendary performers, such as Doris Day, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. Americana is a concert of barnstorming showstoppers and rousing melodies that will provide a fitting salute to America’s enormous contribution to modern music.
Our last concert of the year
featuring Noni Hansen and Stephen Wheatley as vocalists. 
Some memories of the Family Concert 2019
Photographer Ron Craig
