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The Fox Valley Concert Band, under the direction of Marc Sackman, will perform its Winter Concert on Friday, March 17.

The concert is free and open to the public and takes place at 7:30 p.m. in Perry Hall on the Fox Cities campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

With the concert falling on St. Patrick’s Day, the band will present a program centered on Celtic music, including Irish Tune from County Derry by Percy Grainger, Malcom Arnold’s Four Scottish Dances, and Mannin Veen (Dear Isle of Man) by Haydn Wood.

Also on the program are two compositions steeped in folk music or folk traditions, William Grant Still’s From the Delta and Albanian Dance by Shelly Hanson.

The band’s march for the evening will be a late composition by John Philip Sousa, The Gallant Seventh.