The Sequim City Band is pleased to announce a special combined concert with the Port Townsend Summer Band at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, at the James Center For the Performing Arts.

Honoring the 25th season of the Port Townsend Band and outgoing conductor Karl Bach, this performance includes the best of concert band repertoire from marches to Broadway, sea songs to classics and Spanish dance to American Cake Walks.

Both Bach and Tyler Benedict, conductor of the Sequim group, will share in the direction of the musicians.

Bach has been director of the Port Townsend Summer Band since 2001. He began his career with the U.S. Navy in 1955 and served as a vocalist, percussionist and administrator. After retiring as a Senior Chief Petty Officer in 1974,he obtained teaching degrees and inspired music students in Virginia and Oregon. He retired to Port Townsend in 2000 and has enriched the community with his skills as a percussionist, vocalist, conductor and composer.

The bands will play two of Bach’s marches — appropriately “The Port Townsend March” and “The Sequim Centennial March.” Also by Bach is “A Sea Chantey Voyage,” a medley of sea songs paints a nautical picture from the ship’s crew preparing to sail.

Other pieces include the “Suite of Old American Dances” by Robert Russell Bennett, “Invercargill” by Alex Lithgow — one of the most popular marches in the world, especially with the U.S. Marines — and “To Challenge the Sky and Heavens Above” by Robert W. Smith.

The concert continues with “España Cañi” (Gypsy Spain), an international piece by Pasqual Marquina written in 1923 known as the Spanish Gypsy Dance.

“The Golden Age of Broadway” celebrates the musicals of the famed duo Rodgers and Hammerstein, and includes well-loved songs from “South Pacific,” “The Sound of Music,” “Carousel,” “The King and I” and “Oklahoma.”

A light-hearted piece, “Instant Concert” by Harold Walters manages to fit in 30 separate and well known melodies in just over three minutes. This insane and goofy mélange includes opera, folk songs, spirituals, marches and classics.

Special guest announcer for this dual concert will be Jonathan Pasternack, conductor of the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra.

Come with lawn chairs or blankets, sunscreen and hats for an afternoon of enjoyable concert band music by some of the area’s finest musicians.