In what may have been one of our best performances yet, the SCBQ played at the South Roanoke Library auditorium on Veterans Day, November 11, 2024. This was a concert sponsored by the Roanoke chapter of the Thursday Morning Music Club. We presented a program of American music.

We played selections from West Side Story, and all-American music such as a medley of Stephen Foster music. Also performed was movie music including If I Only Had a Brain and If I Ever See an Elephant Fly from Disney’s Dumbo. It wouldn’t be American music without some John Philip Sousa, so we played Washington Post march and National Emblem. We really touched a wide range of music

For both performers and audience, this is a very nice venue which seats maybe 200 people. I don’t think there is any publicity for the venue itself, but it can be rented for a very reasonable fee. We really should be putting on concerts more often using venues like this. The community makes them available, and the public will turn out for local performers.