From Jazz to Rock: America’s Popular Music

On Friday, July 18, the Marion Concert Band continues its Friday evening concert series with a program of American popular music. The program, which features a variety of popular music styles from the 1890’s to the present, is as follows:

            Washington Post March – J.P. Sousa

            Second American Folk Rhapsody – C. Grundman

            The Symphonic Gershwin – G. Gershwin

            Carnival of Melody – arr. R. Hawkins

            Satchmo. – arr. T. Ricketts

            Mary St. Laurent-Sheehan, trumpet

            Sinatra. – arr. S. Bulla

            Pop and Rock Legends: The Beatles – arr. M. Sweeney

            Pop and Rock Legends: The Association – arr. T. Ricketts

            Stevie Wonder in Concert – arr. P. Murtha

            The Best of Miami Sound Machine – arr. P. Murtha

            Blues Brothers Revue – arr. J. Bocook

            Thundercrest March – E. Osterling

            Mary St. Laurent-Sheehan, trumpet, has performed with the Narragansett Bay Symphony, the Tri-County Symphonic Band, the Marion Concert Band, and the Band of America’s Few. She is an alumnus of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (1992) and is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps where she performed with the Parris Island Marine Band. With the Band of American’s Few, a band comprised of former Marine bandsmen who have either retired or have been honorably discharged, she has performed at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia, and at the Royal International Nova Scotia Tattoo in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has been a member of the Marion Concert Band since 2012.

            The concert will be held at the Robert Broomhead Bandstand, Island Wharf off Front Street in Marion. The program, under the direction of Tobias Monte, will begin at 7:00. All concerts are free and open to the public. “Like” us on Facebook at “Marion Town Band” for up-to-date announcements and rain cancellation notices.

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