Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010

Event: Concert, Terre Haute Community Band, Battle of the Big Bands III

Where: Fairbanks Park, Terre Haute IN

Time: 7:00 P.M. (Indiana time)

Contact: Betty C. Martin 812-535-6440, 812-466-2755

Jim Chesterson 812-535-6440, 812-243-2581

Make way for the Fabulous 40’s Big Band as they compete with the Terre Haute Community Band for the audience’s attention in the ”Battle of the Big Bands III” . This popular event returns to Fairbanks Park on Saturday, July 17^th when the Fabulous 40’s take the stage at 7:00 p.m. with the Terre Haute Community Band following at 8:00 p.m.

The Fabulous 40’s is a 16 piece commercial dance/concert band that plays a variety of venues throughout the Wabash Valley and beyond. They will go to the Great American Songbook for some standards from Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Claude Thornhill among others. Ms Betsy Baer, a graduate of St. Mary of the Woods College Music and Theatre Department, is the featured singer with the Fabulous 40’s and has also performed with the Terre Haute Community Band earlier this summer.

The Terre Haute Community Band will counter with”A Tribute to Glenn Miller” including the familiar “Tuxedo Junction” and “Little Brown Jug”. The “Mancini

Spectacular” is a medley of Henry Mancini tunes with “Moon River” and “Charade” featured. “Salute to American Jazz” is just that with excerpts from “Birdland”, “St. Louis Blues” and ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it ain’t Got that Swing)”.

“Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” is a shift to some Dixieland jazz. “The Band Played On” is actually a waltz written in 1895 and recorded many times, most notably by the Guy Lombardo Orchestra in 1941. Two of the Community Band selections, “Velvet Trombones” and “Bugler’s Holiday” will feature different sections or groups within the band. The “Blue Goose Rag” is a concert ragtime number while “Bandancing” by Jack Stamp is a dance suite.

The Conductor of the Terre Haute Community Band is Yvonne Newlin, the Performing Arts Coordinator at Lincoln Trail Community College in Robinson, IL. The Summer Concert Series is sponsored by the Terre Haute Parks & Recreation Department. The band appreciates the grants received from the City of Terre Haute and Arts Illiana and a media sponsorship with WFIU. For further information please contact the Terre Haute Community Band office at St. Mary of the Woods College, 812-535-6440 or our web page www.terrehautecommunityband.org