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- The Queen City Freedom Band is bringing the sweet sound of music all across the Tri-State.

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- It's actually a reboot of a concert band called the Queen City Rainbow Band.

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- The Freedom Band's Artistic Director tells us

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- for many LGBTQ+ people, the arts was one of their first safe spaces to be authentically themselves,

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- and when they formed the band, they wanted it to be a safe space for all, allies included.

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- Right now, the band is working on a piece for the Pride Band Alliance convention in Columbus next year.

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- It will honor marriage equality and the fight for it by Cincinnati's Jim Obergefell and his late husband, John Arthur.

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- The Queen City Freedom Band's commitment to the power of music to make change

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- is why it is one of the Tri-State's Points of Pride.