POTSDAM--The Potsdam Community Band under the direction of conductor Theresa Witmer, will perform its annual winter concert Sunday, Jan. 17 at 3 p.m. at SUNY Potsdam's Hosmer Concert Hall.

Featured will be works by Eric Osterling, Norman Dello Joio, Brian Balmages and Eric Whitacre, among others.

The 70-member ensemble is made up of musicians aged 15 to over 70 who met for seven rehearsals in November, December and January. Any adult able to play a band instrument at a high school level or above is welcome to join PCB. The band generally plays two to three local concerts a year in the summer and winter.

For the first time this past July, PCB took part in an annual two-day band festival in Lake George.

Works to be performed at the concert are Sunburst by Eric Osterling, Moravian Folk Rhapsody by Robert Sheldon, David Holzinger's On An American Spiritual, Of Dark Lords and Ancient Kings by Roland Barrett, Norman Dello Joio's Satiric Dances, Winter Carnival by Hugh Stuart, Temple of the Murals by Brian Balmages, Alligator Alley by Michael Daugherty, At a Dixieland Jazz Funeral by Jared Spears, and Eric Whitacre's The Seal Lullaby.

There is no admission charge for the concert, but the PCB "donation tuba" will be there.