Orcas High School musicians will present their final concert of the school year on Thursday, June 5 at Orcas Center at 7 p.m. The concert is free and everyone is invited.

Five groups will be performing at the concert: the Choir Club, Orcas High School Strings, Orcas High School Band and Orcas Youth Orchestra (combined group of strings and band).  And for the first time ever, you’ll hear an all-grades (first through 12th with 44 kids) string performance of the early Suzuki composition, “Song of the Wind.”

The Choir Club will sing the Irish melody “May the Road Rise to Meet You.” The High School Strings will play a varied program: Edward Elgar’s masterpiece “Sospiri,” the contemporary “Archangel,” written by Phoenix and Bergersen and orchestrated by the school’s very own Brigid Ehrmantraut, J.S. Bach’s “Prelude” and selections from the movies “Brave” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”

The High School Band is excited about premiering its newest addition to the band – a new Adams xylophone, donated by the Music Advocacy Group.

The Orcas Youth Orchestra will conclude the program with “Elsa’s Procession,” Howard Shore’s expansive symphonic suite “The Lord of the Rings;” and David Shire’s Manhattan Skyline written for the movie “Saturday Night Fever.”