Saturday, June 21st
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center Main Arena
- Time: 8:00am
For more information: RUFF Agility of KY
- Location: Music Rehearsal Hall
- Time: 3:00pm
The WKU Department of Music along with friends and family members of Joe Stites will host a celebration of his life on Saturday, June 21, 2025, beginning at 3:00 p.m. in the Music Rehearsal Hall on WKU’s campus.
Stites passed away on March 1, 2025, and was a 1977 graduate of the WKU Department of Music and a teacher at WKU for 34 years.
The event will begin at 3:00 p.m. with a reception, followed by remarks from those who worked with and learned from Stites during his musical career. A group of Stites’ former euphonium and tuba students will close the event with a recital.
Also scheduled on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., the Southern Kentucky Concert Band will perform in the Downing Student Union Auditorium. The concert is dedicated to Stites’ memory and will feature guest conductors and music significant to him.
- Location: Downing Student Union Auditorium
- Time: 7:30pm
WKU Bands continues to celebrate 100 years (1925-2025) with a series of two summer concerts in June with the Southern Kentucky Concert Band at WKU. Both concerts are free and open to the public.
Learn more at https://www.wku.edu/news/articles/index.php?view=article&articleid=12596.
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