Concord Band Invited to Perform at Boston Festival of Bands

The Concord Band performing during the 2016 Boston Festival of Band at Faneuil Hall, Boston.

The Concord Band is thrilled to have been invited to participate in the day-long 29th annual Boston Festival of Bands, featuring performances, on the hour, by seven of the finest community concert bands from all around New England, on Saturday, June 10, 2017. The prestigious Festival, hosted by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, features seven bands who will play from 11 AM through 6 PM in the Great Hall of historic Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston,

The day-long event, presenting the most exciting pieces for concert bands, is free. This year's ensembles include:

• Randolph Community Band, based in Randolph, MA
• Classic Brass, Southern Connecticut
• Casco Bay Wind Symphony, Gorham, ME
• Concord Band, Concord, MA
• Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Boston, MA (celebrating Lewis Buckley's 10th anniversary as music director of the Met Winds)
• Middlesex Concert Band, Wakefield, MA
• Rhode Island Wind Ensemble, Providence, RI

This is the 20th time that The Concord Band has been invited to perfor! The performance time for The Concord Band is 12 noon until 1 PM.

PROGRAM

• Bright-Colored Dances, by Lewis Buckley (in honor of his 10th anniversary as Music Director of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony)
• Hymn to a Blue Hour, by John Mackey
• Third Suite, by Robert Jager
• Fugue a la Gigue, by J.S. Bach, arr. Gustav Holst
• Variations on a Carnival of Venice, by Jean Baptiste Arban, featuring cornet soloist Richard Given

"Shades of Blue" Concert Videos

One of the Band's long-term projects is to create a comprehensive video archive of concert band literature. The archive documents our performances, helps us to improve musically, and provides a valuable online resource for band programming. You can explore performance videos hosted on our YouTube channel, ConcordBandMA.

The Performance Video Database concept has been created and led by percussionist and executive producer Dan Diamond, and video director Barry Mirrer, with generous technical assistance and resources provided by Concord-Carlisle TV. See feature articles: Performance Video Database, Video Production.

The complete Concord Band Performance Video Database is accessible through a tab at the top of each blog page. With this post, we're also inaugurating a regular update for videos produced from Concord Band performances. You can play a video or view program notes by selecting links in the excerpt shown here.

Shades of Blue
Saturday, March 4, 2017
The Concord Band
James O’Dell Conducting

	Title	Composer/Arranger	Solist
	An Ellington Portrait	arr. Floyd E. Werle
	Hymn to a Blue Hour	John Mackey
	Persuasion	Sammy Nestico	David Southard, alto saxophone
	Blue Shades	Frank Ticheli
	Rocker	Gerry Mulligan	jazz nonet
	Bright-Colored Dances	Lewis J. Buckley
	Blue Sterling	William G. McManus	David Southard, alto saxophone
	Variations on "The Carnival of Venice"	Jean Baptiste Arban; arr. Hunsberger	Richard Given, cornet

Spotlight: Guest Artist Christine Fawson

Christine Fawson
Guest Artist, trumpet

As a vocalist and trumpet player, Christine Fawson has always loved performing classic jazz standards from the American Songbook. Her new album, Here Now shows her originality in conjunction with some of the old songs she loves.

Christine was a member of the vocal jazz group, Syncopation from 2002-2013. The group recorded three CDs; A New Dance, Of Blue and Wonderful You which were widely successful both in the United States and Japan. Syncopation has been featured at festivals throughout the United States and Japan. The group was featured with the Boston Pops Orchestra at the 2009 4th of July Celebration in Boston.

Christine played trumpet with the DIVA Jazz Orchestra from 2004-2007. She performed with the band at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Apollo Theater, and Lincoln Center in New York City; and with artists such as Anne Hampton Callaway, John Pizzarelli, Maurice Hines and the New York Pops. She played and sang with DIVA in concerts and festivals in Europe and throughout the United States. Most recently Christine has been a featured vocalist with the band.

Christine has been a solo artist at festivals and concerts around the world including, Darling Harbour Jazz Festival, in Sydney, Australia, World Music Festival in Hong Kong, Hanover Jazz Festival in Germany, the Women in Jazz Festival in Lucca, Italy and the Ramon Cardo Big Band in Valencia, Spain. In 2009, she was featured in the Mexican premier of Gil Evans’ Porgy and Bess with the Guadalajara Jazz Orchestra.

Christine was a member of Beantown, a high energy R&B band from 2004-2012. Beantown was featured alongside the Black Eyed Peas, Lionel Richie, Earth Wind and Fire and Alicia Keys at the New England Patriots Superbowl parties in 2005 and 2008.

Christine is a member of the brass faculty at Berklee College of Music.

Source: www.christinefawson.net