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By DENISE BONURA / Managing Editor Apr 14, 2022 Shippensburg News-Chronicle Area musicians have kept the beat for live audiences over the last 100 years. The Shippensburg Band is celebrating its centennial anniversary, and SHAPE Gallery in downtown Shippensburg hosted an opening ceremony for a pop-up gallery that celebrates the…
By DENISE BONURA / Managing Editor Apr 14, 2022, Shippensburg News Chronicle Photo by DENISE BONURA Current members of the Shippensburg Town Band partnered with representatives of the Shippensburg Historical Society to display some band artifacts that have been collected over the years. Intern Kai Sayers said band members donated…
The following is an article published by the Public Opinion’s Weekender Magazine on Thursday, November 14, 1996. Banding together Public Opinion’s Weekender in 1996 Banding together Shippensburg Band, around since 1923, ready to perform hodgepodge of tunes. SHIPPENSBURG – Shippensburg Town Band has entertained thousands in concerts and parades…
Come and join us for our annual SPRING CONCERT!
Venue: Shippensburg Senior High School Auditorium
Sunday, April 30, 2:30 pm
Free Admission!
This is the Band’s trumpet section, ca 1965 or 1966. If you recognize anyone, please let us know. Click on the photo to enlarge. 
Back row: John Snoke, Walter Hippensteel, Loyld Heller, Robert Jacobs, Ken Shuman, Ken Long, & Ted Kuhn
Front Row: Dick Kitzmiller, unknown, Dr. Joe Strite, & Bill Miller
NEW! Below is a collection of excerpts from William H. Burkhart’s book, “Shippensburg’s 250-Year History” published on the occasion of Shippensburg’s 250th Anniversary program, July 6-19, 1980. 1837–First Train Comes Through Town On Nov. 16, 1837, a train of seven cars drawn by two locomotives, the “Cumberland Valley” and the…
For the sixth year, the Shippensburg Band invited instrumental students in grades 6 through 12 from six surrounding counties to compete for scholarship funds and the opportunity to perform as soloist with the Shippensburg Band at our Spring Concert Sunday April 19th at 2:30 PM in the Shippensburg High School…
Alan Tolbert, Trumpet As the 2015 winner, Alan Tolbert will perform in the Shippensburg Band’s Spring Concert, playing the first movement of Kent Kennan’s Sonata for Trumpet.
We are offering $1,000 in prize money! While there are many of these types of competitions for students of orchestral instruments, very few are for students of band instruments. We want to offer this opportunity to school-aged students from the surrounding area, including only Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton and Perry…
