Heat Wave of Dixieland Jazz Coming to Lake Orion Area

Lake Orion, Michigan – November 2nd , 2013 – Northern Oakland County will again be jumping to the hot sounds of the North Oakland Dixieland Band. This breakout band of jazz musicians composed of members of the North Oakland Concert Band (NOCB) offers an evening of jazz and refreshments at 6:15 pm on Saturday, November 16th, 2013 at Christ the Redeemer Church, located at 2700 Waldon Rd,  Lake Orion Township, MI 48360. The concert, sponsored by the NOCB will also feature Anne and Rob Burns as A Reasonable Facsimile, Oakland County’s premier Renaissance music group. The concert is free; donations will be gratefully accepted.

 A welcome relief to the cold, damp, cloudy days of November, the music of the North Oakland Dixieland Band will warm the hall and the hearts of the audience with selections of traditional Dixieland tunes as well as classic jazz favorites as popularized by such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Jellyroll Morton and W. C. Handy. The group, lead by George Sinnott of the NOCB, comprises virtuosic jazz clarinet, cornet, tenor sax and trombone as leads, backed by an energetic rhythm section of piano, guitar, tuba, banjo and drums. Many arrangements also include the band’s vocalist, Sara Adams.

The North Oakland Dixieland Band has performed at numerous engagements in the Detroit Metropolitan area including Orion Township, Auburn Hills, Oakland Township, and many other communities in Southeast Michigan. They have also appeared twice at the Greater Detroit Jazz Society with a third appearance coming soon.

A Reasonable Facsimile, the duo of Anne and Rob Burns, is an ensemble which presents music of Renaissance Europe from around 1500 to 1650 on replicas of period musical instruments. With over 25 years experience entertaining audiences of all ages, A Reasonable Facsimile perform throughout the Great Lakes area, presenting programs that are alive, approachable and fun (often funny) for modern audience. They promise to bring some Renaissance improvisation to this concert of classic Jazz. Rob is a flutist with the NOCB.

This small ensemble concert, one of two offered in the 2013-14 concert season of the North Oakland Concert Band, serves as a fund raising event for the Concert Band which has been providing free concerts to the local community for over 30 years.  Based in Lake Orion, the band members travel from all over the Metro Detroit area to play in this top-level community band under the direction of Annette Kline.

For more information go to the North Oakland Dixieland Band’s website, http://www.nocbdixie.com or to the North Oakland Concert Band’s site at http://nocb.org.