Summer Nights Concert with North Oakland Concert Band

As the last echoes of the July fireworks slowly fade away, bring a blanket, friends and snacks to Orion Township’s Civic Center Park in Orion Township for a cool evening of summer pops music with the North Oakland Concert Band. The Summer Nights concert starts at 7:00 p.m. at the Wildwood of Orion Township Amphitheater in the southwest corner of the park, and will feature a wide variety of pops music for concert band including music by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael and John Philip Sousa. 

Annette Kline, conductor and musical director of the North Oakland Concert Band, leads the ensemble in a program that is a perfect close to a summer’s evening. The styles of music range from arrangements of music from Broadway, to light jazz, Big Band, concert marches and even a bit of Baroque classical music.

Bookended by Sousa marches, El Capitan and King Cotton, the concert features Summertime, by George Gershwin; New York: 1927, a  musical depiction of the streets of New York by Warren Barker, and music from My Fair Lady. A tribute to the music of George M. Cohan, Star-Spangled Salute, will lead right into the closing march by Sousa.

Soloists from the band will perform on two works, Georgia On My Mind, by Hoagy Carmichael, featuring George Sinnott on sax, and the Concerto in C, by Vivaldi, with Rob Burns on recorder.

This concert marks the third appearance of the NOCB to the Wildwood of Orion Township. Their most recent appearance at this amphitheater was in June 2012 when they presented A Night at the Movies, a program that was well attended and well received. The North Oakland Concert Band will present another summer pops concert at Wildwood on Thursday, August 9^th, 2012.

The North Oakland Concert Band 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.