NECB holiday concert

The Northeast Community Band will present its free annual holiday concert Thursday, Dec. 9, 7 pm, at Elim Church, 685 13th Ave. NE. Enjoy new arrangements of old favorites, including Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride.” Audience members are asked to be masked and vaccinated, and a list will be kept for contact tracing. The band will raffle off a walnut and maple music stand custom-made by bass clarinetist and master woodworker Wilfred Hein. Raffle tickets will be sold at the concert. Proceeds will go to the Ralph Sowden Memorial Scholarship Fund, which will be awarded next spring to an Edison High School student who plans to continue playing music after high school.