The Ohio University Southern Community Band will perform its annual Christmas concert at 6:30 p.m. on Monday at the Briggs Lawrence County Public Library, 321 S. Fourth St. in Ironton.

Admission for the show is free.

The community band is a small concert band of about 20 students and non-students from the Tri-State area and performs several times a year. The band recently performed at the Ashland Town Center Mall, for the Ashland Christmas parade and for the Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce Festival of Trees in South Point.

Participants come from all walks of life and range in age from teenagers to those in their 70s. Several members joined the band after decades of not playing  and have flourished. The band performs standard concert band arrangements, ranging from easy to medium difficulty, and representing a variety of musical styles and genres including marches, music from musicals and TV shows, jazz, ragtime, rock & roll and arrangements of major orchestra works. The band also performs pops, Civil War/patriotic and Christmas-themed programs.

The band is always looking for new members and rehearses from 6-7:30 p.m. on Mondays in the Ironton High School band room. There is no audition.

High school band experience, basic music reading and musicianship skills and access to a woodwind or brass instrument is required. Percussion instruments are provided. For additional information call Dr. Pat McCoy at 740-533-4541 or mccoy@ohio.edu.