Toledo Concert Band to perform annual Independence Day Concert at Hayes Presidential
The Toledo Concert Band, featuring members of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, will perform a variety of patriotic music to celebrate July 4, during the annual Independence Day Concert at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums.
The concert is from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, July 4, on the lawn in front of the historic home at Spiegel Grove, the estate of 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife, First Lady Lucy Hayes.
Admission is free. Concert-goers are asked to bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating. The concert band’s repertoire changes from year to year, but it always plays Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” while Civil War reenactors fire cannons in sync with the music.
The concert is sponsored by Hal & Diane Hawk, Crown Battery and the Ohio Arts Council. 
Food trucks will sell snacks and lunch on-site.
Parking is available on the grounds, weather-permitting. Overflow parking is available on the street and in ProMedica Memorial Hospital’s parking lots at Buildings A and B, located at 605 Third Ave. Hayes Presidential is a short walk to the east of the hospital parking lots.
For parking updates, visit rbhayes.org.
The museum will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Hayes Home will have tours every hour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The research library will be closed for the holiday.
Hayes Presidential is America’s first presidential library and the forerunner of the federal presidential library system. It is partially funded by the state of Ohio and affiliated with the Ohio History Connection. Hayes Presidential is located at Spiegel Grove on Buckland Avenue.
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