About Rochester Public Music

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Rochester Public Music brings people together through concerts, cultural programs, and music education. Our events are free and public by design.

We turn parks into concert venues, bring artists into classrooms, and share music across neighborhoods. Our work is rooted in shared experience, local connection, and the belief that music belongs to everyone.

Music with Purpose.

Rochester Public Music is a department of the City of Rochester.

Our Programs

  • FORWARD Park Concerts: Free summer concerts in Rochester parks. Local bands, local food, and space for everyone to gather.
  • Riverside Music Series: Live music. Big names. No tickets. Large-scale concerts featuring chart-topping acts and rising stars.
  • Sound School: In-school residencies where students explore rhythm, movement, and musical identity — from hip hop and taiko drumming to close-harmony singing.
  • Passport Sessions: Free outdoor concerts during Thursdays Downtown, celebrating culture and connection through sound.

Rochester Concert Band

@ Rochesterfest

  • Intro Text Rochester's own 50-piece symphonic wind ensemble under the direction of guest conductor Tracy Youngberg performing the songs of summer including Karl King's "Barnum & Bailey's Favorites", Sousa's "Fairest of the Fair", "Big Band Cavalcade", “A Copeland Tribute”, and highlights from “West Side Story”. The Rochester Concert Band is a volunteer ensemble that is open by competitive audition only. The ensemble has become a Rochester institution that can trace its history back to the early 1870s.
  • Artist Website URL https://www.rochestermn.gov/departments/music-riverside-concerts/ensembles
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Rochester's own 50-piece symphonic wind ensemble under the direction of guest conductor Tracy Youngberg performing the songs of summer including Karl King's "Barnum & Bailey's Favorites", Sousa's "Fairest of the Fair", "Big Band Cavalcade", “A Copeland Tribute”,  and highlights from “West Side Story”. The Rochester Concert Band is a volunteer ensemble that is open by competitive audition only. The ensemble has become a Rochester institution that can trace its history back to the early 1870s.

Tracy Youngberg was raised in Fargo, North Dakota. She attended North Dakota State University where she received her B.S. in Music Education. She received a Master of Arts degree in Music Education from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.  She has 25 years of experience teaching music.  Tracy has taught general music from kindergarten through eighth grade, and band from fifth grade through twelfth grade, and choir from fifth grade through twelfth grade including an adult choir.  She has taught in South Dakota, west-central Minnesota and southeast Minnesota.  Currently she leads Swing Street, a 17 piece jazz band.

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