Shelby Community Band performs Oct. 20

Shelby Community Band debuts new director Ross Venneberg at Songs of the Sea concert, Oct. 20 at Triton Central High School. 

The Shelby Community Band, debuting a new director, performs at 3 p.m. Oct. 20 at Triton Central High School.

The band's Songs of the Sea concert is free, with donations accepted. Concert-goers will see for the first time the band's new director, Ross Venneberg.

Venneberg is an Indianapolis-based trumpeter, conductor and educator. He moved to Indiana in 2021 and for the past three years has served as Director of Instrumental Activities and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Franklin College.

A native of Sitka, Alaska, Venneberg earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Mary’s College of California, Master of Music degrees from Manhattan School of Music and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Washington.

The Shelby Community Band, formed in 1973, is made of mostly adult musicians and encompasses nearly every age group. It is comprised of people with careers such as teachers, mechanics, therapists, retirees and people in the trades. Members come from a wide range of experience, from high school, college, and beyond.

The band presents between six to eight performances each year, including fall, Christmas and spring concerts, the annual Memorial Day performance in Shelbyville and several concerts/festivals in the parks in and around Shelby County.

Shelby Community Band rehearses with its new director Ross Venneberg.