Another opportunity to enjoy music outdoors is being offered through the Summer Concerts in the Park series, reports Old Town Public Library director Cynthia Jennings.

The first concert features the Dave Wooley Band at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at Riverfront Park in Old Town. The rain date for this country-western show is the same time Thursday, July 19, at the park.

Zevulon appears at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, at the park. Jennings describes this presentation as “a very talented family ensemble performing country, folk, jazz and everything in between.” The rain date is the same time Thursday, July 26, at the park.

You will have the opportunity to enjoy the Queen City Big Band at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1, at the park, featuring nostalgic music from Benny Goodman to Broadway. In the event of rain, Jennings wrote, the concert will be inside the Herbert Sargent Community Center on Bennoch Road in Old Town.

Brian Catell & Jump City Jazz appear at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8, with a rain date at the same time Thursday, Aug. 9, at the same site.

Jennings wrote, “You won’t want to miss the Jump City Jazz concert!”

Closing out the series is the appearance of the Bangor Band at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15, at the park.

The historic band returns “by popular demand,” Jennings wrote of the organization that will celebrate 150 years of community service in 2009.

In the event of rain, this concert will be held at the community center.

“Bring your blankets and chairs,” Jennings wrote, because seating is not provided for the outdoor concerts, “and join us at the Riverfront Park” for several evenings of “great music. Make it a fun evening by bringing along a picnic.”

Jennings expressed her gratitude to everyone “who sponsored the 2007 summer concert series. Without their generosity, we would not be able to enjoy the Summer Concerts in the Park.”

For more information about the concerts, call the library at 827-3972.

I received a nice follow-up note from Ned Salinas, director of the First Baptist Church Youth Choir in Bangor.

On June 29, I wrote about the choir as it was completing a tour of the musical “Yes, I Believe,” to benefit Kupenda, a nonprofit Christian charity that assists handicapped children in the developing world.

Kupenda means “to love” in Swahili.

Salinas e-mailed that church members are “very fortunate to have Cynthia Bauer, the founder-president of Kupenda,” present at its regular service at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, July 15, at the church, 56 Center St. in Bangor.

The choir will present Bauer with a check for more than $5,000 and will sing the title song, “Yes, I Believe” from its tour musical, Salinas wrote.

Bauer will talk about Kupenda “during the children’s story in service,” Salinas added.

“If you love horses and think you might like to own one of your own,” wrote Nonni Daly, “plan on being at Bangor Historic Track” at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 15, “when the Standardbred Pleasure Horse Organization of Maine will be holding its annual Breed Demo Day at the raceway” off Buck Street in Bangor.

Daly, who is a consultant for the University of Maine equine program and a harness racehorse owner, reminds you “admission is free at the raceway, and in the show paddock next to the grandstand you will have a chance to meet five retired harness racehorses who are now wonderful family pets and pleasure horses.”

She explained that SPHO “is a nonprofit organization devoted to retraining the harness standardbred and finding homes for these incredible horses once their racing careers are over.”

Horses you will meet may be familiar names to followers of Maine harness racing, Daly wrote of “Artist’s Brush, Somekindapill, Chagoal Grey, McKeever and Dreamy Starlet, all of whom have raced in Maine and now enjoy lives as pleasure horses, trail riding, barrel racing, jumping, competing in dressage shows and demonstrating why they are versatile and talented animals.”

The retired horses “will marshal the post parades of each race,” Daly wrote, “and put on a demonstration of their new skills after the race card is finished,” which is expected to be approximately 4 p.m.

Daly hopes you will “come and watch the thrill of the races, and the delight in seeing what these horse can do after the finish line!”

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