About Us

The Blairsville Community Concert Band was formed in October in the year 2000. The band is an offshoot of an invitation by Warren Dosch, in that year the Blairsville High School Music Director, to the family and friends of the students to play at a high school band concert. The original participants who accepted that invitation to play enjoyed the experience so much they met after the high school concert and formed the Blairsville Community Concert Band. Today we number approximately 55 members including students, businessmen, instrumental music teachers, a retired college band director, a police officer and a number of your neighbors both amateur and profession musicians.  We are comprised of area children and adults ages 12 to 75 years.

 A brass choir from The Blairsville Community Concert Band has played for the Indian Haven and Beacon Manor Nursing home residents at Christmas time. This year the brass choir performed for Blairsville's Light up night celebration. The concert band has played annually at Blairsville Diamond Days celebration, Veterans Day concert at the Blairsville High Schools Center for the Performing Arts, for Blairsville's Sts. Simon & Jude church bazaar, an Independence Day celebration at Marion Center, PA and other area concerts.By performing, we hope to demonstrate the talent, joy, and satisfaction of the local artists, thereby encouraging others to play and perpetuate the art of traditional live concert music in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

 The purpose of the organization is to preserve the art of live band music in our community,and to provide our members an outlet in which they may express their unique musical instrumental and vocal artistic talents to the Blairsville area, in Indiana and Westmoreland Counties, and surrounding communities. The band hopes that its artistic contribution, live music, will be appreciated by young and old of this community now, and for generations to come. Membership in the band is voluntary, and anyone who can read music is welcome to join. Ask any band member after our concert about joining the band.

For information about joining our band, see the contact page of this web site!