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The Lima Area Concert Band (LACB) is a community concert band based in Lima, Ohio. Founded in 1970, the band's membership includes more than 70 amateur and career, volunteer musicians from the northwest Ohio region. The band typically performs four formal "concert series" concerts in Lima at the Veterans' Memorial Civic Center along with an additional number of informal performances throughout the surrounding communities.

Each of the "concert series" performances typically features a guest soloist. The band has performed with a number of classical and contemporary, professional soloists such as jazz saxophonist Lou Marini.

The performance repertoire of the band includes both traditional standards of the 20th century as well as contemporary works for wind ensemble.

History
The Lima Area Concert Band performed its first concert in 1971 under the direction of Gail F. Woolley, Sr., under the name of the Million Dollar Band.

The mission of the Lima Area Concert Band is "to foster and encourage the playing and appreciation of concert band music, to provide an opportunity for participating musicians to maintain and improve proficiency, to entertain audiences in the West Central Ohio area and to be recognized as a premiere arts organization in the Lima community."

In preparation for its 50th anniversary year the band is planning numerous community outreach events and even commissioning a work from composer James Swearingen.

Local Initiatives
The EWSB has hosted the Three Rivers Community Band Festival, an annual concert featuring concert bands from Western Pennsylvania and Ohio, since 2004. The Three Rivers Community Band Festival features guest conductors leading a group of 95+ musicians from around the region in a one-day band rehearsal. Past guest conductors include James Gourlay and Samuel Hazo.

Since 2011, the EWSB has run the Summer Side-by-Side program, which allows student musicians in local high schools the chance to rehearse with the band and perform during the summer concert season.

In 2016, the band received a proclamation from the office of Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto naming April 2016 "Greater Pittsburgh Community Concert Band Month" in honor of its work to promote music in the community.