Band Scholarship

March 8, 2019 Cover Story, Currents No comments

Frank Mahoney’s legacy lives on

By Lisa Stites

Brunswick Bands is offering a scholarship in memory of one of the Band’s long-serving members. The Frank Mahoney Young Artist Scholarship is the group’s first annual scholarship offering.

Mahoney joined Brunswick Bands shortly after he and wife Joyce retired and moved to St. James in 2002. Frank was a lifelong musician, and led and played trumpet in his own dance band before he was 20 years old. He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in music education, and worked as a high school music teacher and band director in Florida and Mississippi. He resumed music leadership roles with Brunswick Bands, playing in the concert band and leading the Brunswick Big Band. He also served in leadership roles in the Sea Notes Choral Society.

The $1,000 scholarship is designed to aid a student who is continuing participation in music, either through school or with other organized ensembles. The scholarship will be awarded to a graduating Brunswick County senior wind or percussion musician who has been accepted to an accredited college/university or technical school. The student must have participated in high school band or external community band program for a minimum of three years.

Applications are available from the guidance departments at North, South, and West Brunswick High Schools, and Brunswick County Early College. Applications may also be downloaded from the Brunswick Bands’ website, www.brunswickbands.org. The completed application and school transcript must be submitted to the students Guidance Office by March 15, 2019 and the scholarship winner will be announced at the Brunswick Bands spring concerts on April 6 and 11.

Brunswick Concert and Big Bands perform throughout Brunswick County. Currently the Brunswick Concert Band has approximately 60 members ranging in age from 15 to 80. The Music Student Assistance Program encourages and supports band participation. The group accepts donations of instruments from the community, has them refurbished and loans them to students who cannot afford to purchase or rent instruments.

For more information, please contact Dan Corsi at 412-580-6501.