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Joe Stites: Celebration of Life
- Date: Saturday, June 21st, 20252025-06-21
- Time: 3:00pm
- Location: Music Rehearsal HallMusic Rehearsal Hall
Description:
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.
Contact: Emily Lindsey
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