Picture: Ron Geers playing Taps on Omaha Beach for the Ceremony for Soldiers Lost at Sea at Saint Martin de Varreville.

Picture:  Holland Legion Honor Guard on Omaha Beach.

How do they do it?  Professional singers/musicians I mean?  We had three concerts at three different venues today and one reception and now I’m totally beat!  Our last concert tonight was at the Concert Hall of Saint-Lo.  Very cool area!  They requested an encore…THREE TIMES!!!!  The stage lights were bright and the house lights were off, but our clarinet and flute players could see the French audience standing for the Star Spangled Banner.  Talk about a tear jerker!  That after seeing the invasion beaches with young soldiers site seeing and aged veterans performing in ceremonies while young children are playing in laughing on the beach where the invasions took place 65 years ago. I would have never guessed how popular RV’ing is in Normandy.  All the sites have a dozen or more RVs parked in the lot.

Note from our Esteemed Director Thom Working:

Tonight’s concert at the Center Hall of Saint-Lo was the most amazing concert the band has ever played.  We received a standing ovation and two encores.  -Thom