The Missoula City Band closed its season with a program of marches, solo performances and tributes at its final concert, featuring a vocal solo by an elder performer identified only as Alfredo, a trumpet solo dedicated to a local teacher killed last October and a closing performance of John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever."

The concert program mixed traditional band repertoire with guest soloists and community recognitions, with the announcer noting visiting members of the Friendship Force of Missoula and multiple birthday acknowledgements. The program included marches by George Rosencrantz and Edward Franco Goldman, orchestral transcriptions from the film "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," and a woodwind feature by nationally known soloist Gary Herbig.

The performance opened with a trombone quartet rendition of the national anthem and continued through a series of marches and solo numbers. The program host described the evening as the band’s last concert of the season and introduced several guest performers, including a singer identified as Alfredo who performed an Italian song and was described in the program as 95 years old. The concert also featured a trumpet solo by Dean (surname variant in the program) dedicated to Dawn Marie, a 27-year-old teacher who, the announcer said, was killed by a drunk driver last October; the announcer asked the audience to honor her memory.

The band played a mix of twentieth- and nineteenth-century marches, including an “Illuminator March” attributed in the program to George Hendricks Rosencrantz and another march credited to Anton Rosenkranz. The program also included the Colonel Bogey March and selections from the score by Michael Kamen for the 1991 film "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves."

Guest soloists and contributors named in the program included Gary Herbig (woodwind soloist), a trumpet soloist identified as Dean, and several guest artists and conductors listed in the program. The announcer thanked Mayor Engen and the Missoula City Council for continued support and acknowledged volunteers and staff who worked on the season.

The evening concluded with the band’s traditional season-closing performance of John Philip Sousa’s "Stars and Stripes Forever," with orchestrated piccolo parts played on tubas for the finale. The announcer closed the program with a brief sign-off to the audience and an invitation to return the following year.

"It's not only mine, it's for everybody," the program host said as part of the introductions during the concert.