FARMINGTON – The annual March Concert season featuring the choral, orchestral and band ensembles in the local schools of SAD 9 has been announced by the music department.

These concerts are annual events sponsored in conjunction with the National Music Educators Association, Music in Our Schools Month. Participating in these concerts are the music performance ensembles from Academy Hill, Cape Cod Hill, Cascade Brook, Weld, Mount Blue Middle and Mount Blue High Schools.

The district choruses in grades 5 through 12 will present a Chorus Festival at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, in Mount Blue High School gym. Special features will include a massed choir of all participants accompanied by the Mount Blue High School Jazz Band. The Franklin County Fiddlers will accompany the Mount Blue High School chorus.

The district Orchestra Celebration will be presented at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17, in the Mount Blue High School gym. Included in this concert are all string ensembles in grades 4 through 12 and the Mount Blue Middle School Fiddlers and the Franklin County Fiddlers.

The final district concert, Band-a-rama, will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, at Mount Blue High School. All instrumental musicians, grades 5 to 12, will perform as well as the High School Jazz Band.

These concerts are free and open to the public. The SAD 9 Music Boosters will again sell Gifford’s Famous Ice Cream after the concerts.

In addition to these three district concerts other music ensembles from SAD 9 will prepare and travel to special performances. The Mount Blue High School women’s vocal ensemble, The Syncopations, leave on Thursday, March 4, to rehearse and perform in Carnegie Hall in New York City.

The Syncopations will also present a “post-Carnegie” concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 13, in Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington. This is a free, thank-you concert for the generous support the group has received from family, friends and the community.

The Franklin County Fiddlers will travel from March 11 to 13 to attend fiddling workshops and performances at Our Lady of the Assumption School, the Berkeley College of Music in Boston and at the Maine Country Dance Festival in Topsham. The Fiddlers will also perform locally at the Wilton SeniorsPlus program at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 17 and again at 7 p.m. March 20 at Weld Town Hall.

The Mount Blue Voices will present two concerts prior to their April 1 departure to perform at Disney World in Orlando, Fla. They will present a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 21, at the Wilton Congregational Church and again at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 27, in Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington.