Franklin Community Band

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.

05/24/2026

A reminder that the Memorial Day service will be tomorrow on the courthouse lawn. The music starts around 10:00 AM and the service will start around 11:00 AM. The weather looks to be cooperating for tomorrow.so please come out for the service...not for the band, but for those represented by the rows of crosses.

The Franklin Community Band will be playing at the annual Memorial Day service on the courthouse square in Franklin on Monday, May 25. The band will begin playing around 10:00 AM with the Memorial Day program to follow.

I don't like to reuse posts on our page and I don't carry over our normal silly/fun approach to the posts for the Memorial Day service performance. I was reviewing what I'd posted for previous Memorial Days and I ran into this picture of the boots. Three years later, it still brings me up short. There's an immediacy to the boots. An abruptness. A shout. It can be easy to gloss over the names and the numbers and the news stories about soldiers who died in past wars or in current conflicts. I found it impossible to gloss over these boots three years ago. I STILL find it impossible to gloss over the boots. Memorial Day is a day to think of these boots and the thousands of other empty boots from the 250 years of our country. The cookouts are fine…I plan to eat a few things that my doctor would not approve of on Monday. But set aside some time to remember why we have the day off work and why we have the cookouts and the pool parties. In the England, a line of poetry frequently appears in remembrance services and on memorials: "They shall not grow old; As we who are left grow old." That is something to remember before fully diving into the perfect burger or hot dog on the grill. It's not a smooth thought or a sanitized thought or a pleasant thought. Then again, the reason we have all those names on lists and plaques and rolls around the country isn't particularly smooth or sanitized or pleasant.

I hope you take the opportunity to join the band in attending the service on Monday, May 25 at 10:00 AM on the courthouse lawn. I hope you honor the empty boots.

05/19/2026

The Franklin Community Band will be playing at the annual Memorial Day service on the courthouse square in Franklin on Monday, May 25. The band will begin playing around 10:00 AM with the Memorial Day program to follow.

I don't like to reuse posts on our page and I don't carry over our normal silly/fun approach to the posts for the Memorial Day service performance. I was reviewing what I'd posted for previous Memorial Days and I ran into this picture of the boots. Three years later, it still brings me up short. There's an immediacy to the boots. An abruptness. A shout. It can be easy to gloss over the names and the numbers and the news stories about soldiers who died in past wars or in current conflicts. I found it impossible to gloss over these boots three years ago. I STILL find it impossible to gloss over the boots. Memorial Day is a day to think of these boots and the thousands of other empty boots from the 250 years of our country. The cookouts are fine…I plan to eat a few things that my doctor would not approve of on Monday. But set aside some time to remember why we have the day off work and why we have the cookouts and the pool parties. In the England, a line of poetry frequently appears in remembrance services and on memorials: "They shall not grow old; As we who are left grow old." That is something to remember before fully diving into the perfect burger or hot dog on the grill. It's not a smooth thought or a sanitized thought or a pleasant thought. Then again, the reason we have all those names on lists and plaques and rolls around the country isn't particularly smooth or sanitized or pleasant.

I hope you take the opportunity to join the band in attending the service on Monday, May 25 at 10:00 AM on the courthouse lawn. I hope you honor the empty boots.

04/21/2026

Here are some pictures from our concert last week. It really was a good show! Thanks again to the audience at the Active Adult Center!

04/17/2026

A HUGE shout out to the audience tonight at the Active Adult Center!! Did you have fun? I thought it was fun! Our enthusiastic audience at the AAC got to hear music that I bet they'd never heard before and music that they could sing along with (and did) and music that fell somewhere in between. We heard fife and drum music and a mother-daughter duet. We heard some facts about George Washington (did you know there was more hippopotamus content (some) in his teeth than wood content (none)?). We heard these facts from George Washington himself! It was a good concert.

Thanks again to the audience. A good audience really does bring out an extra level from the band. Thanks to the Active Adult Center and Franklin Parks & Recreation for hosting the concert. Further thanks to the AAC for also hosting our rehearsals. And congratulations to the band for another good concert.

Look for our next concert Memorial Day weekend. Details to be posted here as we get closer to the concert.

04/16/2026

By this time tomorrow, the concert will be over and the post-concert milkshake will have been consumed here at the main office of the Franklin Community Band page. Will you have heard the music? Post-performance ice cream products are optional...
So a reminder:
Our concert--Thursday, April 16, at 7:00 PM, at the Franklin Active Adult Center (160 E Adams St.)
The music--Lots of patriotic music of a variety of styles
The theme--The celebration of the 250th birthday or the USofA
The special surprises--Yes, but if I told you all of them, they wouldn't be surprises anymore, would they.

We hope you can join us for our show! Thanks to Franklin Parks & Recreation for the support and the venue for the concert!!

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12/31/2025

As the last hours of 2025 roll by, we here on the campus of the Franklin Community Band Social Media Offices would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you who have come to our shows or watched our videos or liked our posts. We appreciate the support. Concerts are more fun when there is an audience out there reacting to the music. In exchange for your support, we hope the band has provided good music, entertainment, and a couple of hours of break from the every-day. And to the members of the band, it's a privilege playing music with you.

What say we all do it again in 2026?!

Happy New Year!!

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas!!
--from the Franklin Community Band