The rain will not let up today!  Due to the weather conditions, our concert tonight at Bever Park is cancelled.  If you are still in need of some great music on this dreary Sunday, please head over to Washington High School to hear the CR Youth Wind Ensemble beginning at 6:30 in the band room!  Please join CRMB this Wednesday, June 25 at Taft Middle School for our next concert.

Due to weather conditions this afternoon, the prelude concert performed by the Cedar Rapids Youth Wind Ensemble has been moved to the Washington High School Band Room.  Washington High School is located at 2205 Forest Drive NE in Cedar Rapids.  Parking in the north parking lot will allow for your easy access to the fine arts wing entrance and the band room is the first door on your right.  Come out and enjoy a concert by some of the finest young musicians in the metro area!

The Cedar Rapids Municipal Band Concert at Bever Park at 7:30 is STILL ON as of now!

We have a special treat for you tonight: The Cedar Rapids Metro Area Youth Wind Ensemble! This group of talented high school musicians will perform tonight at 6:30 PM at our usual place at the Blake Boulevard SE entrance to Bever Park. They are led by area high school band directors Jim Miller and Steve Stickney. We hope you’ll come early tonight to enjoy the music of this very capable group of local students.

The Gazette today has a nice article on them, which you can read by clicking HERE.

Don’t miss our concert tonight at Bever Park!  A special preview concert will be held at 6:30 featuring the Cedar Rapids Area Youth Wind Ensemble.  Our regularly scheduled concert will begin at 7:30 with special guests this week Randy Gabrowski and Amy Schnedel on trumpet and Linn Mar High School vocalist Brooke Almasi.  Pack up those lawn chairs, picnic fare and the family for a beautiful night out in the park!

Tonight’s program:

• The Star Spangled Banner, featuring Brooke Almasi, voice

• The Rifle Regiment
• Danse Bacchanale
• Song and Dance, featuring Randy Grabowski, trumpet. http://www.randygrabowski.net/
• Alan Silvestri: A Night at the Movies
• Puccini’s Nessun Dorma, featuring Amy Schendel, trumpet. http://music.uiowa.edu/people/amy-schendel/
• Salute to Bob Hope
• The Friendly Rivals (Charles Godrey), featuring Randy Grabowski & Amy Schendel, trumpets
• Selections from “The Mikado”
• March-Olympia Hippodrome
• Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication, featuring Brooke Almasi, voice

Due to standing water in Greene Square Park, which would make it impossible to set up our stage, we have been forced to cancel our Saturday, June 21 performance at the Cedar Rapids downtown Farmer’s Market.  Please join us for our next performance on Sunday, June 22 at Bever Park. The Cedar Rapids Youth Wind Ensemble will perform a 6:30 prelude concert you will not want to miss!

Pack up those lawn chairs and bring the family out to Bowman Woods this Wednesday, June 18 for another fantastic Cedar Rapids Municipal Band concert! Our concerts are always free and offer a little something for everyone. This week features two outstanding trumpeters, Randy Grabowski and Amy Schendel and the great voice of Linn-Mar student Brooke Almasi.  Hope to see you there!

This week’s program:

• The Star Spangled Banner, featuring Brooke Almasi, voice
• The Rifle Regiment (John Philip Sousa)
• Danse Bacchanale (Camille Saint-Saens, arr. Leigh D. Steiger)
• Song and Dance (Philip Sparke).  Featuring Randy Grabowski, trumpet.  http://www.randygrabowski.net
• Alan Silvestri: A Night at the Movies (arr. Michael Brown)
• Nessun Dorma (Giacomo Puccini, arr. Les Taylor).  Featuring Amy Schendel, trumpet. http://music.uiowa.edu/people/amy-schendel
• Salute to Bob Hope (arr. Warren Barker)
• The Friendly Rivals (Charles Godrey).  Featuring Randy Grabowski & Amy Schendel, trumpets.
• Selections from “The Mikado” (Gilbert & Sullivan, arr. E. Boettger)
• March-Olympia Hippodrome (Russell Alexander)
• Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication, featuring Brooke Almasi, voice

It’s going to be a beautiful summer evening for our concert tonight at Ellis Park!  Concert begins at 7:30PM.  This week’s guest artists include Lincoln Ginsberg from Washington High School on vocals and Christian Behrens on trombone.  Pack a snack and your lawn chair or blanket and we’ll see you out at the park!

This week’s program:
Star Spangled Banner, sung by Washington High School student Lincoln Ginsberg
Overture from “La Forza del Destino” (Giuseppe Verdi, arr. Mark Rogers)
Solid Men to the Front (John Philip Sousa)
Big Band Spectacular (arr. John Higgins)
What Cheer Rumble (composed by band member David Haupt!)
Variations on Barnacle Bill the Sailor (Robinson & Luther, arr. Frank)
        Featuring Christian Behrens, Bass Trombone (http://www.cbehrensmusic.com/)
National Emblem (E.E. Bagley)
Selections from Les Miserables (Claude-Michel Schonberg, arr. Warren Barker)
Whip and Spur Galop (Thomas S. Allen, arr. Ray Cramer)
Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication, sung by Washington High School student Lincoln Ginsberg

The Cedar Rapids Municipal Band plays tonight (11 June) at 7:30 PM at Noelridge Park on the northeast side, near the lagoon. The program for this week includes:

• The Star Spangled Banner, sung by guest vocalist Lincoln Ginsberg
• Overture from “La Forza del Destino”
• Solid Men to the Front
• Big Band Spectacular
• What Cheer Rumble, written by CRMB’s very own David Haupt
• Variations on Barnacle Bill the Sailor, with guest artist Christian Behrens on bass trombone
• National Emblem
• Selections from Les Miserables
• Whip and Spur Galop
• The Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication, with Lincoln Ginsberg

The weather is gorgeous today, so come on out! But if you can’t make it, you can catch us LIVE on KMRY Radio.

We’ll be at the Blake Boulevard entrance to Bever Park tonight, downbeat at 7:30. I don’t think we could ask for better weather tonight, either. See you there!

You are invited to bring your lawn chairs and join us for our first 2014 band concert this evening at Greene Square Park, starting at 7:30 p.m. The program will include:

• Star Spangled Banner, sung by Xavier high school student Meredith Diebold
• The Iowa Band Law by Karl King (special guest conductor!)
• Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo by Malcolm Arnold, arr. John Paynter
• Sophisticated Ladies by Duke Ellington, arr. John Edmondson
• Daughters of Texas by John Philip Sousa
• Reflective Mood by Sammy Nestico, with special guest Anthony Williams on trombone
• Shepherd’s Hey by Percy Grainger
• Selections from Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. Warren Barker
• Pie in the Face Polka by Henry Mancini, arr. Johnnie Vinson, featuring Christine Bellomy on clarinet
• The Screamer by Fred Jewell
• Song of Dedication by Larry Barrett, with Meredith Diebold