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The Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band will present \u201cSalute to Entertainment\u201d 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, in Merton E. Hill Auditorium on the campus of Chaffey High School, 1245 N. Euclid Ave., Ontario.<\/p>\n
Before the concert, the Woodwind Celebration Ensemble will play beginning at 7 p.m. in the lobby, where free coffee and cookies will be available.<\/p>\n
Admission is free.<\/p>\n
The concert will feature music from Broadway musicals, including \u201cWhat I Did for Love\u201d from \u201cA Chorus Line,\u201d \u201cOn the Street Where You Live\u201d from \u201cMy Fair Lady\u201d and \u201cThe Impossible Dream\u201d from \u201cMan of La Mancha.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guest vocalists will be Bobby Collins and Emilio Pichardo, who are returning to perform with the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band, and Loren Martinez, in her first appearance with the band.<\/p>\n
Bobby Collins has been singing and dancing on stage for more than 35 years, performing in productions including \u201cSinging in the Rain,\u201d \u201cYoung Frankenstein,\u201d \u201cThe Producers\u201d and \u201cMerrily We Roll Along,\u201d according to a news release from the band.<\/p>\n
Collins is also managing artistic director for the Inland Valley Repertory Theatre and the principal of Rancho Cucamonga Middle School.<\/p>\n
Emilio Pichardo is a member of The Seventh Variety quartet and the\u00a0 Westminster Chorus. He is also a voice coach with Inland Pacific Ballet and teaches voice at Christian Arts and Theatre in Corona, according to the news release.<\/p>\n
Loren Martinez has performed as a soloist and for theater companies and choirs all over the United States. She is a music teacher in the Alta Loma School District and is the choir director at Water of Life Community Church in Fontana, according to the news release.<\/p>\n
In addition to the vocal soloists, the concert will feature band member\u00a0Steve Collins on flugelhorn performing highlights from \u201cThe Music Man\u201d and \u201cWest Side Story\u201d with the band.<\/p>\n
The concert will be broadcast on local Ontario cable Channel 3.<\/p>\n
The Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band, founded in 1985 by R. Jack Mercer, is now under the direction of Patrick Arnold and Assistant Directors David Grasmick and David Schaafsma. Band\u00a0members represent at least two dozen communities throughout Southern California, according to the release.<\/p>\n
The band performs monthly concerts at Chaffey High School and other venues throughout the community.<\/p>\n\n
Adult and student musicians are invited to join the band, which rehearses from 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays at Chaffey High School.<\/p>\n
For information about the\u00a0band\u00a0and its concerts, go to showband.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.dailybulletin.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band will present \u201cSalute to Entertainment\u201d 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, in Merton E. Hill Auditorium on the campus of Chaffey High School, 1245 N. Euclid Ave., Ontario. Before the concert, the Woodwind Celebration Ensemble will play beginning at 7 p.m. in the lobby, where free coffee and cookies will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22691,22035,419714,22764,344421,360131,369791],"class_list":["post-2367278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-california","tag-community","tag-inland-empire","tag-local-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-ontario","tag-san-bernardino-county"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ontario-Chaffey-Community-Show-Band-will-present-\u2018Salute-to-Entertainment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367280,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367278\/revisions\/2367280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}