Associate director Joe Car directs the Bloomington Community Band on a Sunday afternoon. Jim Sowinski, a physicist at the IU Cyclotron, has played the trumpet with the band for 14 years. I played in high school and a little during college. This group gives me a chance to get together for the music. I know they'll be there, every Monday night at St. Thomas church.
Nobody needs to call.
The band has been in existence, with a few interruptions, since the Civil War. During the 1960s the band took a break, but Gary Wiggins won a grant from the Indiana Arts Commission under Bloomington JayCees sponsorship in 1978 and revived the group. I feel like the character in Field of Dreams. Newcomers are always welcome. We don't hold auditions.