City Band Concert - Salute to the Armed Forces

The Charlevoix City Band will be opening their 100th plus season with a salute to the armed forces and the fourth of July holiday!

This first concert is at 8:00 P.M. on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, at the Odmark Pavilion in East Park.

Featured vocalists with the Band are Dave Smith, Ret. USCG, and Steve Overton, West PoInt Grad.

Our opening concert will include:

Star Spangled Banner - arr. Larry Clark Vocalist - Dave Smith

National Emblem - E.E. Bagley

Blue and the Gray - Claire Grundman

Armed Forces Salute - Featuring vocalists singing:

Caisson Song - Edmund L. Gruber
Semper Paratus - (always ready) - Francis Saltus Van Boskerk
Marines Hymn - from the opera Geneviève de Brabant 1859
The U.S. AirForce - Robert Crawford
Anchors Away - Alfred Miles & Chas. A. Zimmerman

America the Beautiful - Samuel Agustus Ward

Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar (Words by Grian MacGregor)

A week before the battle of Bull Run, Sullivan Ballou, a Major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield - Narration by Steve Overton

American Folk Rhapsody - Clare Grundman

American Patrol - F.W. Meacham

Stars and Stripes - John Philip Sousa