A very busy holiday concert season will keep local choir and band members hopping in December.


The holiday school concert season gets under way tonight (Thursday), when the Lovell High School choirs perform at the high school music room at 7 p.m.

Performing will be the concert choir, the new girls choir and the swing choir, director Linnea Dickson said.


Next on the local schedule is the Rocky Mountain High School band and choir concert Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the RMHS Auditorium in Byron. For the band, a variety of Christmas carols are on the program, and the audience is invited to sing along, director Christine Olson said. The choir will sing a variety of songs including the theme from “Happy Days” and several spirituals.


Following the high school concert senior Sam Seitz, who was recently selected for the All-Northwest Choir, will hold a concert fund-raiser at around 8:30 p.m. featuring himself and family members. Donations will be taken to help fund his Feb. 11-15 trip to Spokane, Wash.


Seitz, along with around 200 other students from six northwest states and British Columbia, was selected from some 5,500 students who tried out.


On Tuesday, Dec. 9, there are two concerts scheduled in north Big Horn County, including the Rocky Mountain Middle School choir and band concert in Deaver at 7 p.m.


The sixth-grade band will play assorted beginning band songs, Olson said, including “Santa’s Sleigh Ride.” The seventh-eighth-grade band will play a James Bond type of song, among others. The seventh-eighth choir will sing the beautiful Christmas song “Hush” and a novelty song “Squeezin’ Down the Chimney.”


Also on Tuesday night, the annual Lovell Elementary School K-3 program will be held at the Hyart Theatre. Directed by Chauna Bischoff, the concert begins at 7 p.m.


The Lovell high school/middle school Christmas band concert is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. at the middle school commons. Director Dane Mickelson said there will be many fun songs, Christmas carols and other surprises during the concert. Music will include “Twenty Carols in Two Minutes,” “Dance of the Slippery Slide Trombone,” “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and music from the Polar Express, Mickelson said.


Mickelson also noted that band members will be involved in the musical performance of “A Christmas Carol” at Lovell Middle School on Friday, Dec. 12, with performances at 10:20 a.m. and 6 p.m.


The Lovell Middle School choirs will perform Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m. at the commons. Performing will be the sixth-grade choir, the seventh- and eighth-grade boys choir, the seventh- and eighth-grade girls choir and a mixed choir.


The Rocky Mountain Elementary School concert is scheduled for Dec. 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Elementary Gym. The concert will feature students grades K-5.