Done with winter? Kick off an early spring with the Sequim City Band, who hosts their “Sweet Suites” concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 10, at the Sequim High School auditorium, 533 N. Sequim Ave.

In music a suite is an ordered series of instrumental dances, in the same or related keys, commonly preceded by a prelude. The band will feature “Second Suite in F,” a well-known concert band piece by Gustav Holst that was originally written for military band. The Holst suite includes a march, ballad and rhythmic piece, as well as free form music.

From George Bizet’s “L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2,” the band will play an arrangement of a farandole — an open-chain community dance popular in Provence, France, that bears similarities to the gavotte, jig and tarantella.

“Waltz No. 2” by Dmitri Shostakovich is another example of a dance that was composed as part of a musical suite.

In modern pop music and movie culture, an equivalent of a classical musical suite is the compilations of songs by a particular vocal band or songs composed for a musical or movie sound track. The band will perform a compilation of Beatles music, including “Drive My Car,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “Hey Jude” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

An added treat for the audience will be the solo trumpet styling of Randy Stillwell, a band member returning from his home in Australia to perform “Jimala Beguine” by James Burke (a cornet soloist with the Goldman Band).

In addition to Australia, Canada will be represented. Clarinetists Edith Eaton, Don Mayer and Rhonda Smeds from Vancouver, B.C., will be joining the band for the afternoon concert.

The band asks local music fans to “save the date” for Wednesday, April 10, when the Sequim City Band joins the Port Angeles High School Wind Ensemble in at the Port Angeles High School auditorium.

For more information about the Sequim City Band, visit www.sequimcityband.org or www.facebook.com/Sequim.City.Band, and learn how to support the band by becoming a “Band Aide.”