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	<title>Manchester Civic Band : North Manchester, Indiana</title>
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	<description>The Manchester Civic Band is a volunteer based concert community band providing free music for public events in the greater North Manchester, Indiana area.</description>
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		<title>Here Comes Summer&#8230;ready or not!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer fun is here and it starts with our summer concerts.  You may have listened to us this spring at the Peabody Tulip Festival or at the Akron United Methodist Church. We continue the fun into summer with three concerts in June.  Peabody&#8217;s on June 16th, Silver Lake Days on the 19th and Timbercrest on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2010/06/04/here-comes-summer-ready-or-not/</link>
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		<title>Practices Start January 13th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t let cabin fever wear you down, band practices resume January 13th at the Manchester High School band room.  Reg has brought back several recently played pieces to focus on accuracy, intonation, and endurance for an upcoming concert at the end of February.  Check out the setlist page for details.  Practice starts earlier than usual, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2010/01/11/practices-start-january-13th/</link>
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		<title>Dog Days + Hurricane Season = Band Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s August, the time of Dog Days and Hurricane Season.  For some band members these events occur on Wednesdays after practice all year long.  For Reg our director, it’s time to get out a whole new set of tunes for the late summer and fall concerts, which feature a selection of swing band tunes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2009/08/03/dog-days-hurricane-season-band-practice/</link>
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		<title>Summer at Last!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The band has survived yet another cold winter and rainy spring, and is ready with a great set of music and five free concerts in a three week span.  June is the one of the best times for live outdoor concerts, when the weather is just right or ever so slightly chilly.  You&#8217;ll like the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2009/06/17/summer-at-last/</link>
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		<title>Full Band Practices Start February 18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many in the band have been braving many cold and snowy Wednesday nights these past few weeks working on swing band tunes.  During these long dark nights it&#8217;s hard to believe that the sun is actually shining after band practices some parts of the year.  Although it is hard to believe, those ninety-five degree summer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2009/02/07/full-band-practices-start-february-18/</link>
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		<title>What a Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Civic Band just finished its 36th Annual Concert Season with a packed house at Timbercrest Retirement Home on Wednesday, December 10th.  For the Christmas series this year the band paid tribute to Leroy Anderson, whose centennial celebration of his birth has been going on all year.  He wrote Sleigh Ride, The Syncopated Clock and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2008/12/12/what-a-year/</link>
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		<title>A Quality Band playing Quality Christmas Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Believe me; I know it’s early to be talking up Christmas.  Speaking editorially, I avoid all retail stores from mid-October until the week before December 25th so that I don’t have to see all the overdone marketing schemes, screaming kids, and scary Santas.  On top of that there is a LOT of TERRIBLE Christmas music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2008/10/28/a-quality-band-playing-quality-christmas-music/</link>
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		<title>Tis the Season is Coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The civic band just finished a wonderful fall concert series, with one last 2008 outdoor concert at the Akron town park for Pike Lumber Company fall&#8217;s picnic.  While some band members wore their jackets, it was still by far not the coldest outdoor concert the band played (ask Reg some Wednesday after band for details).  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2008/10/06/tis-the-season-is-coming/</link>
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		<title>Fall Concert Series in Full Swing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, September 28th was a perfect weather day at Doud&#8217;s Apple Orchard near Denver, Indiana as the civic band performed a double set of tunes. Visitors to Doud&#8217;s heard the band as they enjoyed corn mazes, hay rides, and free samples of preserves and apple cider. The band of course had a lot of fun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2008/09/28/fall-concert-series-in-full-swing-2/</link>
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		<title>Lookin&#8217; for a Fox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The civic band is beginning it&#8217;s fall concert series on September 17th with four concerts in two weeks.  This includes two outdoor concerts: our annual event at Doud&#8217;s Apple Orchard near Denver (Indiana, of course) on September 28th, and a new concert to the series at the South Whitley Fall Festival on Saturday, September 20th.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civicband.org/2008/09/13/lookin-for-a-fox/</link>
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