press releases

Carol Reynolds, Woman of the Year, 19 June 2010
Swing Set with Bethany Owen at the Balboa Bay Club on Friday, August 13, 2010
Musical Portraits of America, Laguna Playhouse, 2 May 2010
Christmas Concert Spectacular!
It's a Really Big Show at the Festival of Arts
Laguna Community Concert Band Awards Scholarships
The Band in the Sand: Memorial Day 2009

recent press

Laguna Beach Independent, 19 June 2009, School & Sports
Community Band Recognizes Student Music Standouts

Exceptional, talented, driven, and dedicated are but a few of the adjectives that describe the five local high school seniors awarded music scholarships by the Laguna Community Concert Band last week.

Laguna Beach Independent, 19 June 2009, Arts & Entertainment
Forest Avenue Comes Alive with the Sound of Music

Forest Avenue will be alive with the sound of music from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p m. on Saturday, June 20, when the Laguna Beach Sister Cities Association sponsors their second annual "Fête de la Musique." The event celebrates the arrival of summer and Laguna's sister city, Menton, France, with an eclectic variety of free street music.

Laguna Beach Independent, 22 May 2009, Front Page
Memorial Day Events: It's the Unofficial Start of Summer Fun
By Jennifer Erickson

Though the summer season officially begins June 20, this weekend's Memorial Day holiday really kicks off the not-so-lazy, but for sure hazy and crazy days of summer.

Given the beach as the venue of choice for celebrating, residents can start Monday with a 7 a.m. pancake breakfast at Heisler Park, attend an 11 a.m. Memorial Day ceremony at Monument Point and continue the celebration with a 12:30 p.m. free concert at Main Beach.

Coastline Pilot, 21 May 2009
Paying Tribute to Fallen
By Barbara Diamond

Members of American Legion Post 222 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5868 will muster at 7:30 a.m. Monday to put up tiny American flags around town and then head for Heisler Park to set up seating for the audience that will attend the 25th annual Memorial Day Program at Monument Point...

Coastline Pilot, 23 April 2009, Our Laguna
OUR LAGUNA: Band marks 10 years of music making
By Barbara Diamond

The Laguna Community Concert Band has earned the right to toot its own horn. Sunday’s 10th anniversary concert was a joyous triumph that few would have imagined when the idea was first conceived over a cup of coffee at Zinc Café by founders Bill Nicholls, Teresa Marino and Carol Reynolds, then an arts commissioner...

Laguna Beach Independent, 17 April 2009, Front Page
Concert Celebrates A Gift Musicians Give Themselves
By SUZIE HARRISON

Sharing the stage with Juilliard-trained musicians and working professionals seems unfathomable to fledgling trumpeter Len Wood, who joined Laguna Community Concert Band after two years of intensive lessons...