Next week, Nadur’s Mnarja Philharmonic Band will be holding its June Annual Symphonic Concert -Big Band Adventures – at St Peter and St Paul’s Square, Nadur, Gozo.
The event is being organised by the Mnarja Philharmonic Society with the collaboration of the Nadur Local Council and the Cultural Heritage Directory within the Ministry for Gozo to mark the feast of St Peter and St Paul – patron saints of Nadur village.
The Mnarja Band said that during the last 30 years it has been organising this “spectacular concert introducing new repertoire and music arrangements every year.”
It said that “apart from the already vast repertoire of classical pieces that the band’s music archive, now enriched with new music arrangements covering practically all soundtracks from musical theatre, soundtracks from blockbuster films as also pop and rock arrangements that were premiered in the Gozitan band music scenario.”
This year’s concert once again includes music arrangements “never performed on Gozitan soils by local bands,” the band said.
Big Band Adventures is on Friday, the 17th of June, starting at 9pm.
The Mnarja Band will be under the direction of its Musical Director Mro Dr. Joseph Grech and guest singers include Jolene Samhan, Rebecca Bonello, and Megan May Caruana.
The general public is invited to attend and entrance is free of charge. A reception will follow.