New Music – Holiday Road

Dear friends, Since Greg is out of town I intend to have all the new music in your email inbox by dinnertime tomorrow. Here’s Holiday Road. Greg can post it when he gets back. Percussion-I may or may not have it in your percussion folders before I leave. If not,...

Mall Concert AUGUST 8! 7pm

Greetings friends! I’ll be out of town Saturday-Wednesday so I want to touch base with you about summer rehearsals and our upcoming concert on Thursday evening August 8 at River Ridge Mall. We will perform in air conditioned comfort a short program of light...

Last minute notes

Dear Band, Started this earlier this morning, then got busy with vacation errands !! Just got back from rehearsal and I’m too pumped to go to sleep right away. Final reminders before next Thursdays concert. Black everything (and purple band tie for men) 5:40 Call...

Bravo!

On tonight’s rehearsal! You rock! Our ultimate goal is to take our audiences on an emotional journey and you should do just that. Thank you for your commitment and your excellent musicianship! Jim

Dress Rehearsal 5/23

This one’s simple folks… Rehearsal begins at 7:30pm tomorrow. Play through the program (attached). Review final details for May 30 We may go a little beyond 9pm but not much 9:15 max. Jim Program...

Thank you

Dear friends, I woke up this morning with sincere gratitude for the wonderful experience you are giving me. I sat next to Steve Aiello last night while Steve W and Earl were rehearsing the band being awe-inspired by the sounds you were making. When Steve and I started...

Thursday night 5/16

Dear friends, We’re almost ready for our concert on May 30. For tomorrow night let’s play-through the concert in program order hitting spots as needed. It’s likely we may not need the full two hours to accomplish this. Let’s do some...

Thursday night (5/9) and some ENCOURAGEMENT.

Dear friends, I’m looking forward to tomorrow night’s rehearsal. I hope you are in anxious anticipation of our time together to make music and to refine our program. Gary Fagan will be with us to go over For the Fallen. I’m giving him the first half...

Upcoming Music

Dear friends, Yesterday I purchased $942 worth of new music for us to read and prepare over the summer. (One of the fun things to do was to report this purchase to our treasurer, Todd Jennings for his immediate response. LOL! Not to fear, I’m within our budget.)...