PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The PHS bands is looking for a little help from their friends to pay for a ticket to ride to Quebec.

The band has booked the Beatlemania Stage Show to perform at Berkshire Community College for the benefit of Mr. Ronald Lively's high school music program. The show will raise funds for the band to take the long and winding road to Quebec City to perform there.

Band director Lively says it will cost about $4,600 in transportation costs. This band has flown, well bused, there before and each year has fundraisers to get some Help! The trip will be something the students will remember when they're sixty-four.

The stage show is a group of professional musicians who go on magical mystery tours across the universe replicating the Fab Four's career. Titled "Help Keep Music Education Alive" the event will be on April 5 at 7:30 p.m.

Pittsfield High band members will be joining the stage show to perform.

On Wednesday when the sun was up and the sky was blue, the PHS band was joined by Mayor Daniel Bianchi and Matthew Fenlon of Congressman Richard Neal's office on the steps of city hall to twist and shout to spread the word for the show.

"Let's get out and support these kids," Bianchi said, adding how "wonderful" it was to have the band perform at City Hall.

But remember, while $25 can buy you tickets at Wood Brothers Music or at www.purplepass.com, money can't buy you love.

The band's trip is scheduled for the end of April and the PHS students are just waiting for that moment to arrive.