Pack up the lawn chairs and a cooler and put on your sunscreen.
Next Tuesday (June 12), the North Oakland Concert Band will open the summer concert season for the Orion Township Parks and Recreation Department.
The concert will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Civic Center Park, located on the east side of Joslyn Road, across from Canterbury Village.
The program for this concert will have something for everyone, including light classical, show tunes, Dixieland and big band music. And, of course, you can’t have a summer band concert without a few marches!
The band will use this concert as an opportunity to feature several of its many talented members.
The ‘Original Dixieland Concerto? will feature a Dixieland ensemble consisting of Tom Smith on clarinet, Mark Buchanan on trumpet, George Sinnott on tenor sax, Jeff Whitbey on trombone and Laura Mazich on tuba. You’ll get to hear George Sinnott perform his own arrangement of ‘Moonlight in Vermont? on tenor sax.
The highlight of the concert is sure to be the performance of ‘Bugler’s Holiday ? by Leroy Anderson, featuring Eric Kozlowski, Jim Netherland and Angela Leslie.
The North Oakland Concert Band has been making music for 28 years. It has been led by Annette Kline for twenty of those years.
The current ensemble was established in the mid-1990’s when the Orion-Oxford and Rochester Community Bands merged.
NOCB members represent a diverse mixture of professions and backgrounds, including many music education professionals.
The membership roster boasts of more than 80 volunteer musicians from the northern Metro Detroit area.
The NOCB performs several concerts every season, each concert featuring a wide variety of music, classical to pops, performed in various venues in and around Lake Orion.
Concert admission is free, but donations to the band’s operating fund are appreciated. Visit the NOCB website at www.nocb.org for more information about the organization and future appearances.