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Holiday Concert Benefit with Lake Wobegon Brass Band

Lake Wobegon® Brass Band to perform holiday concert benefit


Event proceeds go to Families Moving
Forward


The
Lake Wobegon® Brass Band


will perform Friday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 pm at Colonial Church of Edina. There is

no cost to attend the concert and refreshments will be served. A free will

offering will be taken for Families
Moving Forward
, an emergency shelter program for homeless families operating
365 days a year at hosting congregations that open their
doors, including Golden Valley congregations Valley Community Presbyterian Church and Calvary Lutheran Church. The program serves 8 families at a time, or
about 65 families a year. Families Moving Forward is a program of Beacon
Interfaith Housing Collaborative.

The band is known for
its traditional English brass band sound. Selections will include Michael
Halstenson’s composition, “Welcome, Christmas!” “I

Saw Three Ships,” “Suite from "Christmas: Short & Suite,” “'T’was the

Night Before Christmas,” “It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “Have

Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.”

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