The Plano Community Band continues its 35th season of entertaining North Texas residents on May 4 with an exciting Spring Pops concert. Led by conductor and artistic director, Tommy Guilbert, the band will perform light pops music, including selections the whole family will enjoy, featuring guest artist Drew Lang on percussion.

Drew Lang performs regularly with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and many regional orchestras in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. He is also the principal mallet player with the Dallas Wind Symphony and percussionist for Casa Mañana Musicals. As a theater percussionist, he has also performed at the ATT Performing Arts Center and the Dallas Theater Center. In addition, he was principal percussionist at the Breckenridge Music Festival in Breckenridge, Colorado. As a marimba specialist, Drew has commissioned and premiered and recorded works for marimba in solo, chamber and concerto settings. Drew appears throughout the United States as a soloist and in his duo with Flutist Helen Blackburn. Drew is on the percussion faculties at Southern Methodist University and Eastfield College and is director of the “MARIMBA MADNESS” summer Junior High/High School percussion camp and endorses Vic Firth sticks and mallets.

The concert May 4 will be held at the Eisemann Center of the Performing Arts in Richardson at 7 p.m. The concert is free to the public, but advance tickets are recommended and are available from the Plano Community Band website (www.planoband.com).

The Plano Community Band is funded in part by the City of Plano through the Plano Cultural Affairs Commission and the City of Richardson through the City of Richardson Arts Commission.

For more information, visit our website, www.planoband.com, or contact Marilyn Woodruff, Media Relations Coordinator for the Plano Community Band.