Advance tickets are available for “The Music is the Magic,” a concert under the leadership of former Broadway performer Suzanne Costallos of Hodgdon at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at the Unitarian Church, 61 Military St. in Houlton.

Sue Glick reports advance tickets are available for $8 each at York’s Bookstore and Visions in downtown Houlton and Pieces of Eight, 650 Main St. in Presque Isle. Advance ticket information is available by calling 532-9269.

Tickets at the door are $10.

Proceeds from the concert, featuring New York City and Maine performers, will benefit the care and restoration of the historic Unitarian Church.

Costallos, who has performed both off and on Broadway, appeared in such famous productions as “Zorba” with Anthony Quinn, and “Saturday Night Fever.” She was also in “Mother Courage” with Olympia Dukakis, among many other roles in her 25-year career.

For this concert, Costallos will welcome John Gentry Tennyson on piano and keyboard.

A Texas native, Tennyson has performed with jazz greats from Al Di Meola to Les Paul, and has been musical director and associate conductor for several Broadway shows and tours, as well as serving as musical director for Jennifer Holliday.

Larry McKimmy, who grew up in southern Illinois, is a vocalist who also plays guitar and harmonica. He has performed on radio and TV and in music festivals throughout the country. McKimmy is a resident of Hodgdon and recently performed at the Houlton Coffeehouse.

Percussionist David Kawika Leondorf, a New Jersey native, was principal percussion for the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra for 20 years. He has recorded with Les Paul, Jim Flint and Paul Jones, and is now a resident of Hammond.

Vocalist Rosalind Morgan, a Houlton resident by way of Washington, D.C., studied voice and has sung for many years with the Houlton Community Chorus.

Well-known local singer Andy Gendron of Houlton is on the program, as is Jonas de Long, for whom no information was available, Glick reported.

The event features a wide variety of music from Broadway to blues, folk, pop, jazz and more.

Members of the Bucksport High School Class of 1996 are making plans for their 10th reunion.

Jessica Bickford e-mailed that those working on the event need to locate all graduates to provide them with information about the reunion.

Members of the Class of ’96, or those associated with them, are urged to e-mail Kimberly Youcis at ucakim@hotmail.com.

You are reminded that Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, world-renowned pediatrician, author and family advocate, and colleagues, are presenting two programs in our area April 25-26. The first is for parents, and the second for professionals.

For parents, Brazelton will discuss “Stresses and Supports for Today’s Families” 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, at Hutchins Concert Hall, Maine Center for the Arts at the University of Maine in Orono.

Tickets are $10 and are on sale at the Maine Center for the Arts box office, or by calling (800) 622-8499.

Scholarships are available, with information available from Marie Durant at 973-3576 or (888) 389-3610.

Spc. Chuck Ford, a member of the Good Will-Hinckley Class of 2001, was wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq last month, and has been awarded a Purple Heart.

He is currently receiving treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., reports Laura Santini-Smith of Good Will-Hinckley, where he has the support of adoptive parents Joe and Karen Corvino of Fairfield and their 12-year-old daughter, Lucia.

Joe Corvino, a Good Will-Hinckley cottage program manager, and Karen Corvino, a nurse and former Good Will-Hinckley employee, were family teachers “during Ford’s formative years” at Good Will-Hinckley, Santini-Smith explained.

Ford’s extended Good Will-Hinckley family also has sent care packages and cards.

Santini-Smith reported Ford has undergone six surgeries that include removal of shrapnel from his legs, arms, right side, back and key veins, and his right arm has been amputated below the elbow.

Additional surgeries will be performed to create a shaping for prosthetics, and it is expected Ford will remain hospitalized for four months.

In the meantime, Santini-Smith wrote, donations are being collected to help fund work for the construction of an efficiency apartment, for Ford, in the Corvinos’ home.

Good Will-Hinckley family teacher Peter DeRaps and a team of volunteers will perform that work.

For more information about how you can contribute to this very special project, call Corvino on his cell phone at 207-577-5444; e-mail jcorvino@gwh.org; call Santini-Smith at 238-4298; or e-mail lsmith@gwh.org.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.