FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 26, 2005

Contacts:     Brandon Bouchard, chair                     Vaughn McLaughlin, conductor
                   CHS Music Building Fund                    Caribou High School Band
                   (207) 227-6611                                   (207) 493-4260
                   bbouchard@cariboumusic.org
                   www.cariboumusic.org

Benefit Concert to be held for CHS Music Building Fund, May 1

CARIBOU, MAINE,-The Caribou High School Music Building Fund will be holding a special benefit concert for the new music center on May 1, 2005 at 7:00 in the Caribou Performing Arts Center. The Caribou High School Band will be performing. Tickets are $5 each and will be sold at the door.

The CHS Band will be performing an extensive program that includes Schubert's "Ave Maria", Clifton Williams' "Symphonic Suite", and Jack Stamp's " In Final Obedience". Robert W. Smith's entire Symphony #2 in four movements, which is based on Homer's literary work, "The Odyssey", will also be performed. Brandon Bouchard, chair of the CHS Music Building Fund, will speak on behalf of the fundraising committee at the event.

This is the first concert that the CHS Band has held for the CHS Music Building Fund, and is the latest in a string of fundraisers for the project. The Caribou jazz ensembles held a concert on March 31, 2005 and a scrapbook fundraiser will be starting this Wednesday, April 27, 2005. A portion of the proceeds from the Large Group Festival being held in Caribou on Saturday, April 30, 2005 will also go towards the project.

For more information on all current fundraisers, please visit the website at www.cariboumusic.org/fundraisers.

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