Concert to Benefit ART Station

The United Methodist Men’s Music for Missions Program will donate proceeds from their upcoming concert to ART Station.  The concert is to be held at the Lawrenceville Hwy United Methodist Church located at 3142 Lawrenceville Hwy, Tucker, GA at 7:00 p.m. on March 21.  The church is located just outside 285 on Lawrenceville Highway.

The concert will feature The Eight Regiment Band.  The Eighth Regiment Band of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry formed in 1986 in Rome, GA, when the conductor of the Rome Symphony Orchestra asked brass percussion players to stay after a practice and work on Civil War era music.  John Carruth, who was conducting the orchestra at that time, said they gathered up the necessary instruments for playing music from the Civil War era, including grabbing an E-flat tuba that was being used as a planter, and were able to play the music.  Eighth Regiment now uses all original instruments.

The 14-member band performs music from both sides of the conflict in replica blue and gray uniforms, with appropriate dialogue and action. They create a program intended to be "a museum of 19th-century American emotions." "We dress, feel and act so that you'll think you're in a time capsule. So you can feel what the men and women of the Civil War period felt" said Carruth, a Civil War re-enactor who travels with an artillery unit.

Admission to the concert is free, but a hat will be passed at the end of the concert for donations to ART Station.