Marine Band concert set

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September 12, 2010

The Register-Herald Sun Sep 12, 2010, 12:01 AM EDT

BECKLEY — “The President’s Own” Marine Band, America’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization, will perform Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Woodrow Wilson High School Auditorium.

A West Virginia native, Gunnery Sgt. Kevin L. Bennear of Keyser, is a baritone vocalist and concert moderater for the event.

Founded in 1798, the band has performed for every U.S. President since John Adams. Known as “The President’s Own” since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the Marine Band’s primary mission is to provide music for the President of the United States and the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Each fall, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band performs for nearly 100,000 people in communities across America on its annual concert tour.

The tour is a tradition initiated by 17 th Director John Philip Sousa more than a century ago.

Today’s Marine Band tours in the fall, and rarely leaves the Washington, DC, area at other times because of a heavy schedule of White House and ceremonial commitments.

Bennear joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in January 2000, becoming the third featured vocal soloist since the position was established in 1955.

Bennear began his musical instruction at age 9. After graduating in 1990 from Elk Garden High School in Elk Garden, just west of Keyser, he attended Potomac State College in Keyser and earned a bachelor’s degree in music from West Virginia University In 1999, he earned a master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

As Marine Band vocalist and concert moderator, Gunnery Sgt.

Bennear is a soloist at White House state dinners and a featured performer in the annual musical productions of Washington’s Gridiron Club and the Military Order of the Carabao.

He performs regularly in the Washington, D.C., area and across the country during the band’s annual concert tour.

For more information on “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band go to http://www.marineband.usmc.mil/

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