M State Presents Winter Concert, Community Invited to Legacy Hall
Minnesota State Community and Technical College Fergus Falls presents a holiday concert titled The Promise of Living today at 2 p.m. in Legacy Hall, featuring the college Concert Band, Concert Choir and Voice Ensemble. The program offers a blend of classic carols and contemporary seasonal works, making it a central campus event and an accessible cultural opportunity for Otter Tail County residents.
Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Fergus Falls is staging The Promise of Living today at 2 p.m. in Legacy Hall, bringing together the college Concert Band, Concert Choir and Voice Ensemble in a collaborative winter program. The concert combines familiar carols and newer seasonal compositions and serves as a focal point of the college holiday schedule.
The joint performance reflects a return to ensemble collaboration after recent leadership change in the Concert Band following the retirement of a longtime director. Music faculty and ensemble directors have framed the concert as an important element of the college s arts calendar this season, and the collaborative format is intended to showcase student musicians across multiple ensembles.
Program details emphasize a mix of classic and contemporary selections to reach a broad audience and to provide students with diverse performance experience. The inclusion of multiple ensembles on one stage also creates efficiencies in staging and rehearsals, and offers community members a full afternoon of choral and instrumental music in a single event.
For Otter Tail County residents the concert represents both cultural enrichment and civic engagement. Legacy Hall on the M State Fergus Falls campus is positioned as a local venue where students and community members intersect, providing a public space for shared seasonal observance. Attendance supports student musicians, affirms on campus arts offerings and contributes to the vitality of local cultural life during the holiday period.
The college has encouraged community attendance at the 2 p.m. performance, noting the concert s role in campus holiday programming and in connecting the college with the broader Fergus Falls area. With the change in Concert Band leadership this season, the performance also serves as an opportunity for the community to observe the ensemble s new direction and to acknowledge the contributions of faculty and retiring staff to years of campus music.
