The New York Army National Guard’s 42nd Infantry Division Band will play a free concert at the John Philip Sousa Band Shell on Friday, Aug. 7, at 8:15 p.m. The New York Army National Guard, of famed “Rainbow Division,” will play a variety of music.
The concert tour, conducted as part of annual training, delivers music spanning and connecting generations. Classical music, marches, patriotic selections, jazz, rock and popular music are all within the band’s repertoire. The band has historically played and performed wherever needed, whether as musicians for morale, stretcher-bearers in care of the wounded or as security, more recently in Tikrit, Iraq. “Stretching across America like a rainbow” was a geographical reference for a group whose widely spread origins across the country came together proudly in a unit of precision and inclusion.
For more information, contact Sgt. 1st Class Becky Rapp at 914-944-6552.
