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On October 11, members of the Goshen Youth Jazz Band performed at the 11th annual Community in Concert at the Thomas Bull Memorial Park in Montgomery. The concert is a musical celebration of mental health, wellness and recovery.

The band joined performers Graham Parker, Orleans Acoustic, Robbie Dupree, Cornell Gunter’s Coasters, Carlos Jiminez and his Latin Jazz, and more.

The band consists of music students at the Goshen Intermediate School and C. J. Hooker Middle School and is conducted by Goshen Intermediate School Music Teachers Ellen Dickinson and Roger Voss. Their two half-hour sets included rock-n-roll tunes such as Proud Mary, I’m a Believer, Rock Around The Clock , Rockin’ Robin, Superstition, Mercy Mercy Mercy, Zuit Suit Riot, Smoke on the Water and other rock-n-roll tunes.

There are 47 members of the Goshen Youth Jazz Band, consisting of 11 trumpets players, 10 trombone players, four baritone saxophone players, six tenor saxophone players, eight alto saxophone players, three vibe players, two piano players, one guitar player, one bass guitar player and three drummers. Four students play more than one instrument.

This was the first time that the Goshen Youth Jazz Band performed at the annual concert, but it won't be the last. The Agency's President, Mr. Nolly Climes, has already invited the students back to next year's concert in the park.