Lee County Community brings the curtains up for veterans, and its season, with Band Director Gil Peltola, leading the over 60-member band as\u00a0Stars, Stripes & Spotlights\u00a0celebrates America\u2019s soundtrack-from Broadway showstoppers to timeless marches, from Copland\u2019s quiet lanes to stadium fanfare.<\/p>\n
On Veterans Day weekend, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m., the band invites and honors service members with\u00a0Armed Forces Salute\u00a0and unite the hall in a patriotic sing-along. Featuring trombone fireworks in\u00a0Tailgate Concerto\u00a0and classics like\u00a0National Emblem, this family-friendly concert shines a spotlight on the music that has lifted stages, parades, and communities across the nation.<\/p>\n
Concerts will be performed in the auditorium at Mariner High School, 701 Chiquita Blvd., Cape Coral.\u00a0 There is ample parking off of Tropicana Parkway, W. All concerts are free and open to the public.\u00a0 All concerts begin at 3 p.m. Concert dates are Nov, 9; Dec. 7; Jan. 11; Feb. 15; March 15; and April 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee County Community brings the curtains up for veterans, and its season, with Band Director Gil Peltola, leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}