Franklin Community Band

08/28/2026

It’s been a while, but it’s that time of year. There is a flurry on the horizon. A flurry of…

Franklin Community Band Concerts!!

Next week, on Thursday September 3 in TRAFALGAR, we’ll be playing at the Trafalgar Amphitheater at 7:00. Yes, Trafalgar has an amphitheater now…it’s NEW! It’s located behind the Trafalgar Community Building on 335 Pleasant Street (Trafalgar, IN 46181 to complete the address if you want to use GPS). There will be a few parking spots at the community building as well as along Pleasant Street and at the Library. I don’t believe that there is parking available at the church.

Now, this being Indiana in the summer, there is (currently) a 63% chance of thunderstorms in the forecast together with surface-of-Venus temperatures (high of 91 with a “feels like” of 101). We do have a weather contingency though. If we get rained out or melted out, we’ll play in the community room at the Trafalgar branch of the Johnson County Public Library (also on Pleasant Street, but closer to 252). There will be a post if we find that we have to shift from the amphitheater to the library.

And because it takes more than one concert for the whole “flurry” schtick to make sense, here are a couple of other concerts coming up in fairly short order that you can note on your calendars:
--Sunday September 13 at the FRANKLIN Amphitheater at 6:00…I’ll double check, but there might be ice cream at this one!
--Thursday October 8 at the Historic Artcraft Theatre at 7:00

We hope you’re able to enjoy some of our “flurry” of concerts before those REAL flurries start falling!!

07/03/2026

Here's Good Shepherd Lutheran Church's video of our concert last night. It's nice of them to video the whole show. If you're sitting around home listening to your neighbors shoot off fireworks, why not turn on this video and pretend your watching fireworks to music!! No, the neighbors' bottle rockets won't be synchronized to our music, but those fireworks shows on TV that are supposed to be synchronized are never as sync'd as you'd like them anyhow, right?

07/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to our concert this evening at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church!! I heard an attendance count of 97 which, in my opinion, is a really nice number on a holiday weekend! And that number didn't include the band...so 97 spectators (or 98 on one of the songs that I can't play well!). We appreciate Good Shepherd Lutheran Church for hosting us a couple of times a year. I personally appreciate whoever the brownie baker is for bringing an extra large batch of brownies...I put a big dent in the stack (don't tell my doctor). I know the air conditioning was misbehaving a bit, but it was still a LOT cooler than outside and all of you in the audience were VERY enthusiastic. I'm positive that when the crowd is having a good time, the band plays better!

We wish all of you a happy and safe July 4!

If I read my calendar correctly, our next concert will be at the NEW amphitheater in Trafalgar on Thursday September 3.

07/02/2026

DON'T FORGET!!

Concert tomorrow (Thursday) at 7:00! Great music AND air-conditioning!!

Who's ready for a concert of patriotic music?!? The Franklin Community Band will perform a concert of patriotic music next Thursday, July 2 at 7:00 PM at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. We'll have songs that take you back 250 years to the founding of the country and we'll have more recent patriotic songs. If you want to get in the mood for the 250th birthday of the country, this concert should do the trick!!

We hope you'll be able to join us at 7:00 PM Thursday, July 2 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church!! It should be a good concert!

07/02/2026

The Franklin Community Band will perform at 7 p.m. July 2 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1300 S. Morton St. Franklin. Food and fellowship following concert. Free to the public.

06/25/2026

Who's ready for a concert of patriotic music?!? The Franklin Community Band will perform a concert of patriotic music next Thursday, July 2 at 7:00 PM at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. We'll have songs that take you back 250 years to the founding of the country and we'll have more recent patriotic songs. If you want to get in the mood for the 250th birthday of the country, this concert should do the trick!!

We hope you'll be able to join us at 7:00 PM Thursday, July 2 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church!! It should be a good concert!

06/10/2026

We've got a concert tomorrow! Because the weather is being weather-y (forecasted "feels like" of 99 and a forecasted UV index of 11 (make your own "Spinal Tap" amplifier joke here)), we'll be playing at the AIR-CONDITIONED Active Adult Center rather than at the DriveHubler.com Amphitheater at Youngs Creek Park. We do like playing at The Amp and we'll have another crack at it in September.

So... Tomorrow June 11 at 7:00 PM at the Active Adult Center, come on out and see the band! We'll have a variety of musical styles for you...from show tunes to rock and roll to a collection of patriotic songs. And (as the picture suggests) we're likely to have a bit of a jazz/blues jam session including a couple of our sax players. All this for the very affordable price of FREE!

Thanks to Franklin Parks & Recreation and the Branigin Foundation for sponsoring our concert!

06/08/2026

You made it to 5:00 on Monday... How do you reward yourself?

You make plans to spend the evening in Downtown Franklin leading to a FREE Franklin Community Band concert at 7:00 PM at the DriveHubler.com Amphitheater at Youngs Creek Park on Thursday!

Come out and see the Franklin Community Band on June 11th at the DriveHubler.com Amphitheater at Youngs Creek Park. Have a fun evening outdoors with a FREE concert, a part of our Arts @ the Amp series sponsored by the Branigin Foundation

06/04/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out to the opening concert in the Franklin Symphonic Council Indiana Summer Concert series! We hope you enjoyed the show...the band enjoyed performing it! Also thanks to Grace United Methodist Church- Franklin, IN for hosting the concert. It's certainly a nice place to play. Keep an eye out for future Franklin Symphonic Council Indiana Summer concerts on Wednesdays (including the Joyful Sounds handbell choir next Wednesday, again at Grace United Methodist Church- Franklin, IN).

06/03/2026

For any of you that will be coming to our concert from west of US 31, Jefferson Street is still closed from crossing US 31 as of 11:30 this morning. It looks like they are really close to opening it, but it wasn't open at 11:30 yet.