Defrost from the winter with Cape Cod Concert Band's free concert to brighten your day

The Cape Cod Concert Band is helping people defrost from the winter and enter spring with its "Full Spectrum: Musical Colors to Brighten Your Day" concert at 2 p.m. on March 30.

Featuring songs such as Prince's "Little Red Corvette" and George Sweets' "Black Light," the concert aims to combine the musical and the visual to incite a range of color-connected emotions within the audience.

"There's so many different pieces of music that reference a color," Tom Borning, conductor of the Cape Cod Concert Band, said. "We tried to go around a lot of different colors, moods and feelings. There's something for everybody in the concert, which is what we always try to do."

With a 45-piece band made of volunteer musicians, Borning said that the show features a mix of unique instruments — such as the euphonium — and interesting musical accompaniments such as a "pretty rare" duet between the bass clarinet and the baritone sax.

"I'm hoping that people will hear some music that they've never heard before," he said. "They'll have some other music that will sound familiar to them but done in a different way. I hope they'll hear some instruments that maybe they're not used to hearing and go, 'Wow, that sounds great.'"

Of the shows in the piece, Borning said that he's particularly drawn to "Black Light" due to its minimalism and uniqueness. However, he said that due to the personal nature of the songs, each orchestra member would probably give a different piece to look out for, including Kate Whouley, president and publicist and flute player for the Cape Cod Concert Band.

"I have a fondness for a little piece called Yellow, which is part of a larger suite that was written for a little girl who had a very rare form of cancer," Whouley explained. "She color-coded her days ... A yellow day was a joyful, happy and good day ... It's a simple little tune ... and yet, it just builds and there's this part where the instruction of the musician, I think it says 'with joy,' and it's written so that it actually (feels) joyful at that moment."

The Cape Cod Concert Band's "Full Spectrum: Musical Colors to Brighten Your Day" is free. The show begins at 2 p.m. on March 30 inside the Knight Auditorium at Barnstable High School (744 W Main St. in Hyannis.) For more information about the show, visit www.capecodconcertband.org/.

Other things to know that are happening on the Cape

Falmouth’s Easter Stroll

Falmouth Village’s annual Easter stroll is set to take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on March 30. Participating stores will hand out Easter candy to guests wandering along Main Street.

Chatham Easter Egg Hunt

The Chatham Chamber of Commerce and Merchant Associations' annual Easter egg hunt is set to take place at 11 a.m. on March 30 at Kate Gould Park.

Truro Guidebook art contest and reception

The Truro Chamber of Commerce is calling for submissions for its 2024/2025 Truro Guidebook Cover Competition.

The theme of this year’s competition is “Capture the essence of Truro: its beauty, charm and unique character,” according to the competition’s website and is accepting submissions through April 1.

A reception for the artworks and judging will be held at 2 p.m. on April 6 at the Truro Community Center’s Recreation Lounge where guests will be able to view submitted works and members of the Truro Chamber of Commerce and Friend Members of the Chamber will be able to vote for their favorite pieces. Works will be hung inside the recreation lounge until April 12.

Artists can submit one work for consideration and must install their work at the recreation lounge between 1 and 4 p.m. on April 5. Voting will be open for one week — ending on April 12 — and artists must retrieve their works between 1 and 4 p.m. on April 12 as well.

The winner will have their work featured on the cover of Truro’s Guidebook for 2024/2025.

For more information about the competition, visit www.trurochamberofcommerce.com/covercontest/. The Truro Community Center is at 7 Standish Way in North Truro.

Cape Symphony Orchestra performs Bartók and Poulenc during “Better Together” concert

The Cape Symphony Orchestra will perform selected works of Béla Bartók and Francis Poulenc during its “Better Together” concerts on April 6 and 7.

Bartók’s “Concerto for Orchestra” and Poulenc’s “Concerto for Two Pianos” join Gordon Jacob’s “Old Wine in New Bottles” on the concert’s program. The symphony will be led by guest conductor Franciso Noya, music director of the Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra and part of the conducting faculty at the Berklee College of Music, and accompanied by guest pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton.

“Better Together,” has two showtimes: 7:30 p.m. on April 6 and 3 p.m. on April 7. Performances will take place at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center at 744 West Main St. in Hyannis. Tickets for the show range from $32 to $72 for adults and from $16 to $32 for students (aged 16 to 22) depending on seat selection. For more information about the show or to purchase tickets visit www.capesymphony.org/ or call 508-362-1111, email tickets@capesymphony.org or visit the box office at 2235 Iyannough Road in West Barnstable.

Professor Ronald Bearse gives talk on communications infrastructure at Chatham Marconi Maritime Center

Massachusetts Maritime Academy Professor Ronald Bearse is giving a talk on the importance of strengthening our communications infrastructure at 7 p.m. on April 4 at the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center.

With over 20 years of experience in emergency management and infrastructure security, Bearse will use his wealth of knowledge to go over the necessity of having a strong and protected national communications infrastructure to avoid cyber attacks and other threats to our security.

Registration for the event is $10 and participants can attend in person or over Zoom. To register for the event or for more information, visit www.ChathamMarconi.org/speakerseries/. The Chatham Marconi Maritime Center is located at 831 Orleans Road in Chatham.

Applications open for 2024 Snack Shack program at Hyannis Harbor Overlook

The town of Barnstable is currently accepting applications from food vendors for its 2024 Snack Shack program. The program, which runs from June to November, gives budding and established culinary businesses the chance to rent out the Snack Shack — located on Hyannis Harbor Overlook across from the HyArts Artist Shanties — for six days at a time.

The process of applying is simple. Applicants must submit a Snack Shack Application and submit a town of Barnstable Temporary Food Permit Application once their dates are assigned. Applicants can request to rent the shack for multiple weeks, however, they may only request to rent for up to four consecutive weeks.

Alongside filling out forms, applicants must also pay a $50 fee for the temporary food service permit each week they rent the shack and a $150 refundable security deposit. There is no rental fee for the shack and the town of Barnstable provides basic equipment — a commercial-grade fridge and work space, a display fridge and freezer, a sink and hand washing station and a microwave — for the shack.

For more information about the program or to submit an application, visit www.businessbarnstable.com/ or contact Kyle Pedicini, community and economic planning director for the Town of Barnstable at kyle.pedicini@town.barnstable.ma.us, 774-487-1246.

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