Compton Heights Concert Band
of St. Louis

The Compton Heights Concert Band is a community band whose mission is the preservation of the community through cultural life, musical education for membership and the preservation of old fashioned Sousa-style band concerts which are so much a part of history. Band members and the public enjoy a wide variety of music, accessible to all. The Band has performed with national and internationally recognized artists, such as William Warfield, Nicole Cabell (2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World), David Morris (World Champion Whistler), Ricardo Morales, Canadian Brass, Project Trio, Rebirth Brass Band, Buckwheat Zydeco, The Lennon Brothers, Sukay (Music of the Andes), Debbye Turner, Beverly Stewart Anderson, Robert Ellison, The Legend Singers, Circus Flora, James Christensen (Walt Disney World Music), Arturo Sandoval, Hugh Smith, Doc Severinsen, and Peter Nero.

The Band offers a college scholarship program for high school students who competitively audition. The scholarships range from $500-$1250 per year for four years of college/university. Students also receive Free private lessons throughout high school. The program is an important part of the Band's mission to educate and encourage musical proficiency into adulthood. The Band funds this program through its own fundraising efforts each year. The program has awarded $54,000 in scholarships/private lessons for participant musicians to-date (2011).

The Band has a wide variety of activities, including weekly bingo fundraising, international tours for constituent members, recordings of Holiday concerts, in addition to performing throughout the year. The Band presented 14 months of weekly TV shows on local CBS affiliate KMOV. The Band has hosted the National Association of Concert Bands convention, toured to outstate Missouri, Illinois and Nebraska, and has had many fundraising activities, including fruit sales, flee markets, bingo, auctions, raffles, grants, sponsors, advertising, and tours.


A grass-roots organization, the band has mainly provided the St. Louis community with free concerts every year for 30 years. See Sunday Serenades & Musical Mondays

The Band:

  • Provides enrichment for the community through sharing of music and art
  • Promotes community development and preservation
  • Provides education for participant musicians
  • Presents world-class guest artists
  • Presents a variety of diverse music and artists
  • Provides a place for the community to come together
  • Performs to 50,000+ per year
  • Provides College Scholarships to High School students via audition
  • Provides private instruction for Scholarship winners
  • Touring
  • Plan and provide international touring for constituents to join together
  • Run a bingo hall
  • Run bingos
  • Obtain funding from grants, sponsorships, individuals, corporations, promotional items, and admissions.
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    		Compton Heights Band, Inc.
    3120 Lafayette
    St. Louis, MO 63104
    Call 314-776-2227
    Fax 314-772-9797
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