Battle Creek's Cereal City Concert Band has been invited to perform at the 2025 Mid-Europe Wind Band Music Festival in Schladming, Austria.
The annual event is set for July 2025. Cereal City Concert Band Conductor Stephen White tells Community Matters the festival brought 1800 foreign participants and more than 10,000 spectators in 2023.
Click to listen to Conductor White talk about how the opportunity came about – and how they hope to lessen the individual costs of the trip for musicians.
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Former WBCK Morning Show host Richard Piet (2014-2017) returns to host Community Matters, an interview program focused on community leaders and newsmakers in and around Battle Creek. Community Matters is heard Saturdays at 8:00 AM and PM Eastern on WBCK-FM (95.3) and anytime at battlecreekpodcast.com.
Community Matters is sponsored by Lakeview Ford Lincoln and produced by Livemic Communications.