This musical tale will warm the hearts of anyone who loves that time-honored tradition, the summer band concert! Written by a town band conductor from personal experience, this delightful chronicle tells the story of how a simple idea turns a town's need for music into its most cherished institution.

This musical tale will appeal not only to children, but will warm the hearts of anyone who loves that time-honored tradition, the summer band concert! At the beginning of the story, it is said that a town simply isn't a town until a band can march down the street. After putting an advertisement in the local newspaper, a number of musicians show up and play a few songs in the town parade. Much to the audience's dismay, the band isn't very good. Their music sounds just awful and seems to be getting worse, no matter what they do. Then, everything changes when a cute little boy asks an innocent question. The rest is history and shortly thereafter, the band becomes the town's most cherished institution.

Tom Jahnke is the musical director and conductor of the Chatham Band in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod and sings and plays trombone with the Harwich Town Band, the Sandwich Town Band, the Cape Cod Moonlighters Big Band, and the Sound Dunes Swing Ensemble. He has a passion for writing as seen in his column in the Cape Cod Chronicle and is looking forward to publishing more children's book in his "Little Town" series.

Debra Hart-Chase retired from the Barnstable School System after 36 years of teaching in the field of Visual Art.  She has Bachelor's degrees in Art Education, Fine Art, and Art History from Southeastern Massachusetts University and has illustrated close to 20 textbooks.  She also has illustrated numerous greeting card designs for the Marion Heath Card Company.  She live in Centerville, MA with her husband Don. They have one son, Michael, a recent law school graduate.