On Saturday, July 5 at 7:00 pm you can join with Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and John Phillip Sousa and the Chesapeake Brass Band for a fun filled evening concert at the Chestertown in the Park Concert Series.
Founded in 1996, the Chesapeake Brass Band is a 35-piece all-brass concert band that has been developed in the tradition of the English brass bands of the last century and more recently, the American Sousa-style bands of the early 1890s. Anyone remember the movie Brassed Off? The band is comprised of musicians from communities all along the multi-state area of the Chesapeake Bay region area including Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Since its inception the band has played hundreds of concerts throughout the Mid-Atlantic area and in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and North Carolina for audiences as large as 20,000 people. The band has released seven CD’s and has been invited three times to perform for the national convention of the American Association of Concert Bands. In 2013 the band won the North American Brass Band Competition (Division II) in Cincinnati, Ohio. At that event, the band also won the National People’s Choice award.
The band plays a wide repertoire of music from traditional British brass band transcriptions to light classics, marches, big band/swing, jazz and pops as well as providing a narrative on the music to add personal interest, humor and educational value to their concerts.
Featured pieces for this Sunday’s performance include the “Grand March Aida” from the opera of the same name, themes from Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”, “Hey Jude” and “Hard Day’s Night” by the Beetles and Duke Ellington’s swinging “Caravan” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing”. Solos will be performed on the alto horn, Euphonium and flugelhorn.
Bring something to sit on. Only limited seating is available. Free Admission.
These free programs are sponsored by the Town of Chestertown with support from The Kent County Arts Council & Community Contributors. www.chestertown.com/events/
Rain location: Emmanuel Episcopal Church – 101 N. Cross St. across from the park.
To help make these programs possible, please send donations . payable to the Town of Chestertown and designated for “Music in the Park,” to
Music in the Park
Chestertown Town Hall
118 N. Cross Street,
Chestertown, MD 21620.
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