We’re excited to welcome back QuintEssentially Brass, a Good Shepherd favorite. This year’s program will be a blend of a traditional brass holiday concert with a lessons and carols presentation. The music will lean toward the advent season and the readings will be mostly secular in nature. The end result will be a wonderful afternoon of seasonal favorites and meaningful texts.

Founded in 2009, QuintEssentially Brass is devoted to surprising and delighting audiences by presenting the best in the brass quintet repertoire.

Spanning five decades, Doug Albert (trumpet), Gene Clark (trumpet), Dr. Kristen Albert (horn), Andy Walls (trombone) and Geoff Davis (tuba) believe that making great music takes hard work, but must be enjoyable for each other and their audiences. We think you’ll agree that commitment comes through in every performance.

Join us as we celebrate the holidays with this festive and uplifting concert and seasonal readings — all sure to put us into the Christmas spirit.

Come enjoy the “sweet” sounds of Temple Avenue this February as this fun and lively jazz quintet sets the tone for a memorable Valentine’s weekend celebration.

Temple Avenue is a Lancaster-based jazz group started in 2011 by pianist Colin Mekeel, then a junior in high school, along with his friends who were enrolled in Temple University’s prestigious jazz program.

Today, the group is comprised of professional musicians in their late 20s and early 30s, many of whom have earned master’s degrees in jazz performance. The band is in high demand for playing concerts, dances, receptions and other events across southcentral PA, putting its own spin on familiar jazz standards from the Great American Songbook as well as lesser-known musical gems.

Instead of sitting home this Valentine’s Day weekend, join us and get ready for some toe-tapping, finger-snapping fun.

Celebrating their 21st season, the Lancaster British Brass Band continues to “wow” audiences young and old alike.

This popular ensemble follows the path first laid down in the smoky mill and mining towns of mid-nineteenth century Britain. Gradually evolving into a fixed instrumentation of 28 players (and 1 conductor), the brass band flourished under the sponsorship of mill and mine owners bent on “moral and spiritual uplift,” thus laying the groundwork for a later time when the Salvation Army began capitalizing on the success of the bands by establishing brass bands as part of their outreach through music.

The varied selections of the Lancaster British Brass Band are sure to please a wide range of tastes and interests. A typical program consists of transcriptions of the classics, marches, hymns, popular music arrangements, solos and, last but not least, original compositions written for the medium.

Their unique sound, being composed entirely of brass winds and percussion instruments, has been compared to “one big, magnificent pipe organ.” Come and experience it for yourself!