BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Happy Birthday\, America! Highland Community Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday\, America! - is an orchestral a celebration of the immigrants who built our highlands area and the music that they brought with them.Featured on the program will be Alice Shumate's\, "Highland" in a new orchestration\, and guest artist\, Josh Blount\, on bagpipes! The Highlands Community Orchestra will play an orchestration of Alice Shumate's song\, "Highland"\, which she wrote in 1991. The tune was used by the Highland Chamber of Commerce in a promotional video about Highland County. Find it here on the Chamber's YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/7jfYB3naf6o?si=kylFaNEWfpH0L7S2\nJosh Blount\, from Franklin\, WV\, will play the 'small pipes' with the orchestra. He is the husband of one of the Orchestra's 1st violinists and also the Dad to a percussionist. The Scottish small pipes were the first widely available instrument which allowed Highland pipers to participate in musical sessions with fiddlers\, flautists and other instruments.HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA will have two performances\, SUNDAY\, APRIL 193:00 P.M. AT THE HIGHLAND CENTER in Monterey\, VA7:00 P.M. AT PENDLETON HS in Franklin\, WVFree admission - donations always gratefully accepted! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Happy Birthday\, America! - is an orchestral a celebration of the immigrants who built our highlands area and the music that they brought with them.

Featured on the program will be Alice Shumate'\;s\, "\;Highland"\; in a new orchestration\, and guest artist\, Josh Blount\, on bagpipes! \;

The Highlands Community Orchestra will play an orchestration of Alice Shumate'\;s song\, "\;Highland"\;\, which she wrote in 1991. The tune was used by the Highland Chamber of Commerce in a promotional video about Highland County. Find it here on the Chamber'\;s YouTube channel. \;https://youtu.be/7jfYB3naf6o?si=kylFaNEWfpH0L7S2


Josh Blount\, from Franklin\, WV\,  \;will play the '\;small pipes'\; with the orchestra. He is \;the husband of one of the Orchestra'\;s 1st violinists and also the Dad to a percussionist. The Scottish small pipes were the first widely available instrument which allowed Highland pipers to participate in musical sessions with fiddlers\, flautists and other instruments.

HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA will have two performances\, \;SUNDAY\, APRIL 19

Free admission - donations always gratefully accepted!




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LOCATION:61 Highland Center Drive Monterey VA 24465 UID:e.1810.1388868 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260427T152848Z URL:https://members.highlandcounty.org/event-calendar/Details/happy-birthday-america-highland-community-orchestra-1640272?sourceTypeId=Hub END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR