The South Jersey Area Wind Ensemble will join Atlantic City’s Historic Organ Restoration Committee to celebrate SJAWE’s 25th anniversary 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17 in the Adrian Phillips Ballroom at historic Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall.
The “Flight of Years” performance will be a side-by-side concert with 30 high school and college musicians and 21 alumni.
Local high schools represented include Egg Harbor Township, Mainland Regional, Greater Egg Harbor Regional high schools, Southern Regional among others. Students from Stockton, Rutgers, West Chester and George Washington universities, The College of New Jersey, The University of Delaware and Rowan College at Burlington County will be represented.
The ensembles will perform under the direction of Keith W. Hodgson, Ron Poorman, Jennifer Poorman Hodgson and conductor/composer Patrick Burns. Frank Kollman will MC the concert.
Organist Scott Breiner will join the ensemble for selections with the W.W. Kimball pipe in the Adrienne Phillips Ballroom that boasts 4,151 pipes and has been under restoration by Historic Organ Restoration Committee. Vocalists Nick Myers and Kelli Fallon will also perform special selections.
Tours of the world’s largest musical instrument, the Midmer-Losh pipe organ at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, will be provided for all concert ticket holders at 6 p.m.
Tickets are $20 and are available through Ticketmaster at https://bit.ly/SJAWEHORC.
Parking will be available in the Boardwalk Hall garage accessible off Mississippi Avenue.
