Community Concert Band Kicks of Season with 'Homegrown'

3 p.m., Sunday, November 11

            The 15^th season of concerts by the Jackson Community Concert Band starts out with the concert "Homegrown!" and will celebrate our heritage as Americans, as Michiganders, and as Jacksonians; a celebration of us all.   It begins at 3 p.m. Sunday, November 11, in the George E. Potter Center. 

            The concert will feature American music and highlight soloists from within the band.  Euphonium virtuoso Craig Britton will perform Herbert L. Clarke's Bride of the Waves.  The entire flute section will be featured in the Suite for Jazz Flute by Claude Bolling, and trumpeter Stan Grady will join conductor/trombonist Ronald Douglass in Dizzy Gillespie's Night in Tunisia.  The band will also perform La Fiesta Mexicana by Michigan State University composer, H. Owen Reed, The Suite Of Old American Dances by Robert Russell Bennett, and Henry Fillmore's great march American's We.

            The Jackson Community Concert Band is comprised of students and community members, under the direction of Conductor Ronald L. Douglass.  Cost is $8 for adults, or $3 students and seniors, with children 6 and under free.  Group rates and series tickets available. 

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