Covering the Bases/Basses

Saturday, April 24, 2010, 7:30pm
Haslett High School Auditorium (map)
Special Guest: Deanna Swoboda, Tuba soloist and Tuba/Euphonium instructor at Western Michigan University

Deanna Swoboda, Tuba/Euphonium instructor at Western Michigan University is our special guest as we cover the bases musically. In addition to featuring Deanna on the program, we present a salute to baseball and present a long-lost Sousa march. It should be a wonderful conclusion to our 2009-2010 concert season, and we hope you'll join us!

Red Cedar Festival of Community Bands

Saturday, February 27, 2009, LCB performs at 11:15am
Okemos High School Auditorium (map)
Tickets: Free admission

The Lansing Concert Band is excited to again be a participant in the Red Cedar Festival of Community Bands, hosted by our friends of the Meridian Community Band. The Festival performance order is:

Cereal City Concert Band
DeWitt Community Band
Oakland Community College Symphonic Band
Lansing Concert Band
Livingston County Concert Band
Flint Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Sturgis Wind Symphony
Meridian Community Band
Saginaw Area Concert Band
Genesee Wind Symphony
Clarinet Connexions
Grand Ledge Community Band

The festival runs all day, with the first band performing at 9:00am, and the final group starting at 5:30pm. This is a wonderful festival featuring top quality community bands from around the state, and the LCB is proud to participate again this year.

Holiday Festival 2009

Saturday, December 5, 2009, 8:00pm
Charlotte Performing Arts Center (map)
Special Guests: Sunny Wilkinson and Ron Newman
Tickets: Adults - $10, Students $5, Under 12 free, available at the door or through CPAC

We return to the beautiful Charlotte Performing Arts Center for our annual Holiday Concert, this time with special guests Sunny Wilkinson and Ron Newman. Sunny and Ron are well known jazz musicians in the area, and will lend their special expertise to our seasonal fare! We will feature Sunny on several tunes with the LCB before she and Ron perform a solo set. We will also feature a new take on some old favorites and invite you to raise your voice in a sing-along. It should be just the thing to get you and your family into the holiday spirit. We hope you'll be there!

Autumn Winds 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009, 3:00pm
Okemos High School Auditorium (map)
Special Guest: Lansing Concert Band Big Band
Tickets: Free!

The Lansing Concert Band opens their 2009-10 season with a free concert at Okemos High School. Featuring our own Big Band with vocalist Rhonda Coon, the program spans the genres from marches to classical to musicals to swing. Please join us.