The Allentown Band is returning to two of its fans’ favorite Lehigh Valley concert venues: Haines Mill and Waldheim Park.

The Allentown Band presents “Celebrating America 250” at 7 p.m. Aug. 11, Waldheim Park, Salisbury Township.

It’s the Allentown Band’s 107th concert at Waldheim, the longest-running concert venue for the band.

The Allentown Band presents “Music of Broadway, Movies and More” at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Haines Mill, South Whitehall Township.

The concerts are free and open to the public.

Music of Broadway

“Experiencing an outdoor band concert on the bucolic grounds of historic Haines Mill will almost certainly evoke a strong sense of ‘Americana,’ reminding us of a time when our time was not inundated with schedules and screen time,” said Allentown Band Conductor Ronald Demkee.

“This program is composed of all American music from Broadway and movies, including marches taken from John Philip Sousa’s operettas,” Demkee said. “This is a concert filled with light music for a relaxing summer evening, and bringing a folding chair is recommended.”

Composer Marvin Hamlish (1944-2012) was a child prodigy who at age 7 was the youngest student accepted into the Juilliard School. He began his professional career as a rehearsal pianist for Barbra Streisand. Hamlish is one of the few to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer Prize.

The band performs a “Marvin Hamlisch Showcase” of “They’re Playing My Song,” “Nobody Does It Better,” “The Entertainer” and “What I Did for Love.”

Two works arranged by Warren Barker include “Gershwin!” with the tunes “Fascinating Rhythm,” “Embraceable You” and “I Got Rhythm,” and “Mancini Spectacular” with “Moon River,” “Baby Elephant Walk,” the theme from the television series “Peter Gunn” and the “Pie in the Face Polka” from the feature movie “The Great Race.”

Ted Ricketts’ “Selections from Chicago” highlights music of the early jazz age.

John Higgins’ arrangement of “Irving Berlin Showstoppers” entertains with “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”

The band will also perform Sousa selections. In addition to 136 marches, Sousa composed 15 operettas, concert pieces, suites, fantasies and more than 70 vocal works.

The concert’s Sousa selections include “Belle of Chicago” (1892), “El Capitan” (1896), “The Free Lance” (1905), “Fairest of the Fair” (1908) and “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1896).

“Music of Broadway, Movies and More,” by the Allentown Band, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at Haines Mill, 87 Haines Mill Road, Allentown. More information can be found at allentownband.com/events.

Celebrating 250th

The Allentown Band presents “Celebrating ‘America250,’” 7 p.m. Aug. 11, Waldheim Park, Allentown.

“This year marks the band’s 107th almost annual appearance at Waldheim Park, making it the band’s longest-running engagement,” Demkee said. “We love returning to Waldheim annually for its excellent acoustics, intimate setting and most of all, the enthusiastic audience.”

The Allentown Band, with guest vocalist Chet Brown, will take the audience on a historic journey with American popular music, from the Revolutionary War with composer Morton Gould’s “Yankee Doodle,” to Jerry Bilik’s “Civil War Rhapsody,” James Christensen’s “The Homefront: Musical Memories of WWII” and area composer Ken Moyer’s arrangement of “Freedom.”

“ ‘Freedom’ was originally written about 10 years ago for the Quakertown Band and vocalist Keith Spencer,” Moyer said. “It begins with an instrumental collage of familiar patriotic tunes, then a brief narration about Emma Lazarus’ inscription on the Statue of Liberty, a vocal rendition of Irving Berlin’s classic song based on that poem, and the last stanza of ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic.’

“Hopefully, ‘Freedom’ will remind the listener of the good fortune we enjoy as proud Americans, to be thankful for the freedom and opportunity our ancestors fought and died for, and to remember that, although the American population is diverse, we are nevertheless a single community.”

The concert will conclude with John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”

“Celebrating America 250” begins at 7 p.m. Aug. 11, Waldheim Park, 2400 S. Hall St., Salisbury Township.