From Jazz to Rock: America’s Popular Music

On Friday, August 21, 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 1890s to the present, is as follows:

Washington Post March — J.P. Sousa

Second American Folk Rhapsody — C. Grundman

The Symphonic Gershwin — G. Gershwin

Satchmo. —  arr. T. Ricketts (Mary St. Laurent-Sheehan, trumpet)

Big Band Signatures — arr. J. Higgins

Frank Sinatra Hits Medley – N. Iwai

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

Highlights from Jersey Boys — arr. M. Brown

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 alumna of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (1992) and is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, for which she performed with the Parris Island Marine Band. With the Band of America’s Few, a band composed of former Marine bandsmen who have either retired or 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.