CHS grad who won Latin Grammy returns home to join New Holland Band in spring concert

LAURA KNOWLES | For LNP | LancasterOnline

For musician Jim McFalls, performing with the New Holland Band in  its annual spring concert feels like a reunion.

McFalls and Fred Hughes, now director of the New Holland Band, were both teens when they began playing in the band — McFalls on trombone, and Hughes on the tuba.

Later, they joined the U.S. Army Band and toured the world with the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors, both encouraged by their time performing in the New Holland Band, the second-oldest community concert band in the nation. 

He’ll soon get a chance to play with the New Holland Band once again.

McFalls will be a featured trombone soloist at the New Holland Band’s Spring Concert, set for 3 p.m. Sunday, March 29, at Good Shepherd Chapel at Lancaster Bible College. The band will perform a selection of classic, Broadway, pops and Americana music.

Since his time in the New Holland Band, McFalls — a Columbia High School graduate — has gone on to win a Latin Grammy and perform with musicians from Dave Liebman to Mumford & Sons.

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