CRESTVIEW, Fla., May 3, 2024—The City of Crestview presents its songs of springtime during May and June.

Selections from the classics, Broadway, folk, pop, orchestral, ecclesiastical and traditional genres of music—plus a new original composition—will fill the air as Crestview student and community groups perform during their spring concerts.

For Crestview High School choral music director, Kevin Lusk, his chorus’s concert marks a milestone. After this semester he will retire after decades of teaching Bulldog chorus students.

“Yes, I’m excited, but a little bit nervous,” he said. “I haven’t done anything else for 40 years.”

The music begins Thursday.

CHS CHORUS CONCERT

7 p.m., Thursday, May 9, Crestview High School Pearl Tyner Auditorium
The chorus presents a program ranging from Stevie Wonder to American folk to an Anglo-Irish blessing.
Tickets are $10 and available from Lusk until the day of the concert, when tickets will become available on GoFan.co.

CRESTVIEW COMMUNITY CHORUS

7 p.m., May 10 and 11, Warriors Hall, Whitehurst Municipal Building, 201 Stillwell Blvd.
For its “Potpourri of Music” spring concert, Broadway hits including “Consider Yourself” from “Oliver,” “Somewhere” from “West Side Story,” “Summertime” from “Porgi and Bess” and “They Call the Wind Maria” from “Paint Your Wagon,” join classics such as “Down By the Riverside,” “Prayer of St. Francis” and “Sing Out,” a mashup of several pop favorites, including “I’d Like to teach the World to Sing,” “I Believe in Music” and the Carpenters’ “Sing.”
Free admission; donations welcome.

CRESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOL BAND CONCERT

6:30 p.m., May 17, Crestview High School Pearl Tyner Auditorium
The Big Red Machine brings a wide, rousing and melodic variety of music played by several different ensembles. “We will even hear the premier of an original piece for wind ensemble by one of our senior members of the Crestview Band!” said band director Jody Dunn. Swing, jazz and symphonic band music is in store.
Admission is free; doors open at 6 p.m.

NORTH OKALOOSA COMMUNITY BAND

June 1, Laurel Hill Arts and Heritage Festival
For those who missed this group’s spring May 6 concert—or just want an encore performance—the band will be one of the performing groups at the Laurel Hill Arts and Heritage Festival, 8115 Fourth St. Admission is free.

The Crestview Community Chorus and the North Okaloosa Community Band are presentations of the City of Crestview Mayor’s Cultural Series.

by Brian Hughes, City of Crestview cultural services specialist