The Big Bend Community Orchestra (BBCO) provides opportunities for community musicians to learn and play orchestral music together, encourages school age children to become interested in music through educational programs, and performs orchestral music for the public.

The orchestra consists of more than fifty volunteer musicians and includes professionals, homemakers, music teachers, and students. Three concerts are given each season and are usually held on Saturday afternoons at 3:30 so that senior citizens and families with children can attend. Children in the audience are given the opportunity to come on stage to see and hear the instruments “up close and personal.”

This concert will feature works from Mozart, Liszt, Gershwin, Mendelssohn, among others.

A “Young Artist Competition” is held each season in which the winners are given a chance to perform a solo with the orchestra. The Young Artist concert will be held in February.