It is the biggest music concert on Orcas Island, it happens just once a year and all the proceeds support the music program at the Orcas Public Schools.  So please mark your calendars for “100 musicians! One great cause!” the Music Advocacy Group’s (MAG) 18th annual benefit concert. The time is Sunday, March 1 at 3 p.m.  The place is the Orcas School K-8 gym (the old gym). Admission is by donation.

This year’s concert will feature more than 100 musicians from the Orcas Choral Society, Island Sinfonia, Orcas Island Community Band and Orcas Middle School and High School. All proceeds go to MAG, a 501(c)(3) organization.

“We are fortunate on Orcas to have two excellent music teachers who, along with all of our talented students, are accumulating some amazing achievements,” said Catherine Pederson, President of MAG. Just last spring the Orcas High School Band was the only band in its bracket to receive a “Superior” rating from both judges at a Northwest Washington contest.  The Orcas High School Strings were awarded the top place among all string ensembles performing at a contest for northwest-area schools in Bellingham.

To donate make checks payable to “MAG” and mail them to MAG, P.O. Box 1171, Eastsound, WA  98245.