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The Nevada County Concert Band celebrates its 51^th performance season with today’s street concert as part of the Constitution Day weekend’s events. This is the band’s final concert for its 2023 season. pops concert at the Nevada County Fair. Independence Day curbside concert. Pioneer Park Picnic Pops concert #3 of 3. annual picnic concert for Lake Wildwood residents. a joint concert with special guests the Watsonville Community Band. This is our Band Musician Invitational event, in which we host off-season band musicians from all over for a registration-based day of rehearsing, conversing, performing, picnicking, and fun.

Sunday September 3, 2023 9:00am for an hour-long concert before the parade and then intermittently throughout the parade 5:00 – 6:30pm Pine Tree Stage at the Nevada County Fair in Grass Valley, CA today’s theme: Labor Day Picnic Pops 5:00 – 6:30pm at the Pioneer Park bandshell in downtown historic Nevada City, CA at Commodore Park in Bugler’s Cove, 18955 Wildflower Drive, Penn Valley, CA Saturday September 16, 2023 today’s theme: Constitution Day street concert 4:30 – 6:30pm North Pine Street at Commercial Street (closed to traffic) in downtown historic Nevada City, CA

The Star-Spangled Banner
Frances Scott Key/C. Graufulla-Hausey

Marching Down Broadway
arr. John Moss
MEDLEY: Consider Yourself (from "Oliver!") • Hey, Look Me Over (from "Wildcat") • Seventy Six Trombones (from "The Music Man")

Danza Sonora
Claude T. Smith

Nessun Dorma (from “Turandot”)
Giacomo Puccini/Jerry Lopes
with euphonium soloist George Preston

The Beatles: Love
John Lennon & Paul McCartney/Jay Bocook
MEDLEY: Because • Drive My Car • What You're Doing • The Word • Eleanor Rigby • Hey Jude • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Oblivion
Astor Piazolla/Robert Longfield
with soprano saxophone soloist Mark Potampa

Les Miserables (selections)
Claude-Michel Schonberg/Warren Barker
MEDLEY: At the End of the Day • I Dreamed a Dream • Master of the House • On My Own • Do You Hear the People Sing

INTERMISSION

The Last Grand Ragtime March
John Cacavas

Jurassic Park (themes)
John Williams/Michael Sweeney

Flight of the Flutes
James D. Ployhar

Into the Storm
Robert W. Smith

Windjammer (Voyage Aboard a Tall Ship)
Robert Buckley

America the Beautiful
Samuel Augustus Ward/Carmen Dragon

Pop and Rock Legends: Elton John
arr. Ted Ricketts
MEDLEY: Crocodile Rock • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road • Candle in the Wind • Saturday Night's Alright

ENCORE: The Stars and Stripes Forever
John Phillip Sousa

♬ PERFORMED THESE LATER DURING THE PARADE

1915 March
B. C. Bridges/Cheryl Woldseth
our own signature march

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♬ UPCOMING EVENTS

Sun 9/16 – Constitution Day Pops Concert in downtown Nevada City

♬ NEVADA COUNTY CONCERT BAND

CONDUCTOR Cheryl Woldseth FLUTE Mikaela Galbraith George Husaruk Laurie Piner (+picc) Mary Rose Preston Michael Smidt (+picc) Kaye Wedel Susie West OBOE Kit Chesnut Rebecca Seijas-Ball BASSOON Bruce Piner Joshua Tiffany CLARINET Teresa Gaman Cathy Hardymon David Lake Joelle Lake Carrie Langkabel Jan Woldseth

CLARINET, BASS Kay McCammond SAXOPHONE, ALTO Doug Johnson Rex Levinson Andrea McKibben (+picc) SAXOPHONE, TENOR Vega Alvarez Mark Potampa SAXOPHONE, BARITONE Ellen Bell Bill Powell Mary Whitmore TRUMPET/CORNET Ray Blackham Greg Goodknight (+Eb) Jim Luckinbill Ryan McKibben John Proctor Alex Rosprim Jim West Ernesto Yzaguirre

FRENCH HORN Ken Carter Amy Traugot TROMBONE Patti Carter Dana Douglas Chris Hofland Mike Sarringar BARITONE/EUPHONIUM Bruce Dewing Tom Larsen George Preston TUBA Mark Meeker Walter Webb TIMPANI Oliver Muzio DRUM SET John Basa AUXILIARY PERCUSSION Kurt Remick BAND HANDS Peter Traugot (photographer)

LOOKING FOR A PIANO TEACHER? please contact Jean O. Poff at 530 273-6875

♬ MANY THANKS TO Old Barn Storage, Coco’s (formerly Lazy Dog Ice Cream), The Top Dog, the Roamin’ Angels Car Club, and Jim Luckinbill with his Model T car

♬ THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING LOCAL BUSINESSES FOR THEIR HELPFUL DONATIONS:
SaveMart on Nevada City Hwy, 530-477-9511
Starbucks on Freeman Ln, 530-363-1757
SPD Market on McKnight Way, 530-272-5000
Port of Subs on Sutton Way, 530-477-2660