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Summer Season 2019 – June 21- Family Fun Night at the Movies
June 21, 2019 @ 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
FreeMedina Community Band will the third concert of the 2019 summer season, a celebration of 160 years (since 1859) of presenting community concerts in Medina, on Friday, June 21, 2019, in Medina’s Uptown Park Square Gazebo. Concerts will continue every Friday through Friday, July 26. A special July 4 concert is planned as well. There will be no concert on Friday, July 5. All concerts will begin at 8:30p.
Medina Community Band Association announces a special “Family Fun Night at the Movies” for the 21! According to Medina Community Band Association President Lu Ann Gresh, Band Fans, Parents, and Grandparents, Mark your calendars now for a family fun night concert on June 21. We invite all our princesses, pirates, and super-heroes to come in costume and participate while The Medina Community Band entertains you with music from the movies. You will be able to tap your toes to music from “Captain America” and “Jurassic Park“. Our pirates will dance to the beat of “Pirates of the Caribbean“, and our princesses with sing along to highlights from “Frozen“. We will take you to a galaxy far away while performing “The Marches, from Star Wars“. The band will invite our guests in costume to form a parade during our opening number, “Pixar Movie Magic“. We will end the evening by asking the little ones in our audience to help conduct our final piece, “The Stars and Stripes Forever“. Please join us for a night that will spark imagination for young and young at heart.
Cancellation of concerts will be posted on the website as soon as the decision has been made. A “fan newsletter” will be sent to those individuals who have signed up to receive the newsletter.
The ice cream social for June 21 will be sponsored by Boy Scouts of America Troop 514.
Concerts by the Medina Community Band traditionally last approximately one hour and are patterned after outdoor band concerts in the 1880s through 1930s and feature concert overtures, solos by instrumentalists and vocalists, as well as popular selections, and lots and lots of marches.
As of June 1, the following featured soloist and ensembles will appear with Medina Community Band, subject to change:
Friday, June 28 – Kevin Wallick, cornet solo
Thursday, July 4 – Kevin Wallick, cornet soloist; Sadie Nayman, flute solo.
Friday, July 19 – George Rosin, trombone soloist
Area social and civic groups will be featured as summer social hosts providing light refreshments at a reasonable donation during each concert: June 28 – Medina County Historical Society; July 4 – Medina Breakfast Kiwanis Club; July 12 – Medina High School Band Boosters; July 19, Medina Lions Club; and, July 26 – Medina Creative Housing.
Marcus Neiman conducts Medina Community Band and will be joined in the conducting duties by Matthew Hastings (assistant conductor). Hastings will conduct Williams Jurassic Park Medley.
Medina Community Band is proudly sponsored and supported by the Medina Community Band Association, composed of members of Medina Community Band. The board of directors consists of Lu Ann Gresh, president; Amy Muhl, vice president; Gail Sigmund, financial secretary; Karen Sater, treasurer; Sue McLaughlin, secretary; with directors John Connors, Dr. Thomas Kenat, Robert Moore, and Kristin Thompson.
Membership in MCB is open and there are no dues or auditions; however, members are expected to maintain a regular attendance. The band rehearses on Wednesday evening from 7p – 9p in the orchestra room of Medina High School (777 East Union Street, Medina) during June and July; and September through the end of May rehearsing in the band room of Highland Middle School (3880 Ridge Road, Medina). The band also presents their popular summer series every Friday, June through July, in Medina’s Uptown Park Gazebo. Each year the band presents at a winter concert, spring concert, and the popular “Sousa Concert” at EHOVE Career Center (Milan, OH). For additional information on the 2019 concert season or Medina Community Band, contact Neiman at 330.725.8198 or MarcusNeiman@medinacommunityband.org.