Orcas Island Community Band
Friday, Dec 18th, 7:00 PM
Admission by donation
Giving gifts is traditional at this season. The Orcas Island Community Band wants to share good cheer with you and there’s no
greater gift than music!
Our December 18, 2026 concert offers something for everyone. Under the direction of Karen Key Speck, the Band will perform traditional holiday tunes, plus selections from iconic musicals, movies, television shows and more.
Show time 7pm and Admission by Donation.
About Orcas Island Community Band:
Learn More at www.orcascommunityband.org
The Orcas Island Community Band (OICB) is a 501c3 non profit all-volunteer organization comprised of approximately forty Orcas Island and occasionally neighboring-island men and women dedicated to making a unique musical and cultural contribution to our community. Membership in the OICB is open to musicians of high school age or older who play instruments found in the standard scoring of the concert band. Our members come from a broad variety of backgrounds, including healthcare workers, firefighters, school teachers, engineers, politicians, doctors, housewives, students, and senior citizens.
Founded in October 1990 in response to local musicians desire to play band music together, OICB began as a “garage band”. Five or six musicians gathered in Marlin Brown’s garage in the Orcas Highlands/Eastsound for weekly music sessions. By 1994, the group had grown to ten musicians and they performed occasionally in the Historical Society’s July parades and were jokingly called the Orcas Island Hysterical Society’s Sedentary Band. After participating center stage in one of the Orcas Center’s early variety shows membership grew exponentially.
