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The Hill Country Community Band will present their first concert of the year, “Feste Italiana”, on February 18 at 4 p.m., at the First Baptist Church in Wimberley. Directed by Dr. Manuel Arambula, this free and family-friendly program will include “some Italian blockbusters” such as “The Pines of Rome” by Ottorino Respighi, and transcribed by Guy M. Duker, “Nessum Dorma”, an aria from the final act of Puccini’s opera Turandot and one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera, and “Florentiner March”, an Italian Grand March, by Julius Fucik, Op.214, and edited by John R. Bourgeois.

WimberleyArts.org continues to command the limelight with the news of the expansion of Wimberley’s Cultural District from a small downtown area to a large triangle that reaches as far north of the Square as the VFW Hall and Rodeo Grounds, as far west as the Emily Ann Theatre, and as far south as Savage’s Hill Country Bar.

The Wimberley Players announce the first production of its 2024 Season, “Shakespeare in Love,” that opens February 23 and continues weekends through March 17.

Riffs, Roams and Raves uncovers the creative, noteworthy and accomplished in the Wimberley Valley and beyond with tips on who to hear, where to go and what to see from managing editor Teresa Kendrick.