Pierce College music concert series

Pierce College’s musical groups will be celebrating winter’s end and the start of spring with three concerts in the coming weeks. The low-cost or free concerts are open to everyone and promise a good time for lovers of live music and performance. The shows are as follows:

• Pierce College Jazz Band Winter Concert, 3 p.m. Sunday, March 14 at Jazzbones in Tacoma. Tickets are $5 at the door.
• Pierce College Concert Band and the Fort Steilacoom Choir with special guest the Olympic College Chamber Choir, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, at Lagerquist Hall at Pacific Lutheran University. Tickets are $5 at the door. The concert will include a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms,” as well as a local premiere of the “Don Quixote Symphony #3” for concert band by Robert Smith.
• Pierce College Concert and College Choirs and Orchestra Winter Concert, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, at the First Presbyterian Church in Puyallup. This concert is free. The program includes a piano concerto, jazz pieces, songs from Italy, Spain, and Korea, and a musical tribute honoring the victims of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.

For more information on the music programs at Pierce College, visit the website at www.pierce.ctc.edu/music.