Wheeling Winds Spring Concert

Wheeling Winds will perform at the Strand Theatre on March 22 at 3:00pm. Doors open at 2:30pm The concert is free to attend.

Music lovers of the Ohio Valley have a new opportunity to enjoy instrumental music, this time in the form of a concert band.

Wheeling Winds, a newly formed professional-level concert band, seeks to give fans of traditional band music a chance to hear the genre at an elite level. Led by retired Wheeling Park High School band director and West Liberty University Professor of Music Patrick Garrett, the ensemble is made up of about 30 professional musicians from around the Ohio Valley.

“For a community of our size, there is a lot of music—jazz, orchestral, musical theatre,” says Garrett. “However, there are no concert bands outside of education. Wheeling Winds provides the opportunity to hear music of this type at the highest level.”