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10/30/02
For immediate release 

Contact: Marilynn Fryer
(517) 796-8466
e-mail: fryermarilynt@jccmi.edu

Community Concert Band Continues 'Homegrown' Favorites

3 p.m. Sunday, November 17, Potter Center

 

  The Jackson Community Concert Band will kick off its 16th season with "Homegrown II," a concert continuing the popular theme of last season with selections celebrating our heritage as Americans and as Michiganders.  The performance will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday, November 17, in the Harold Sheffer Music Hall of Potter Center.

Guest artist will be jazz trombonist and Jackson native Andrea Rowlison.  Now a studio musician in the Universal and Disney studios in Orlando, Florida, Andrea will perform "Skylark" by Hoagy Carmichael, and "Tuxedo Junction" by Glenn Miller.  The band will perform Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," Vincent Persichetti's "Symphony for Band," "October," by Eric Whitacre, and "Yiddish Dances," by Adam Gorb. 

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.  For tickets or more information, call (517) 796-8600.

Please join the band for an afternoon of fine music!

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