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Band Musician Invitational Event – Rehearsal and Concert

Theme: “Back to the Future”

Sunday July 26, 2026

“California: Ability’” concert 7/27/2025

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The Day’s Schedule 8:00am Coffee/pastries 8:30am Check-in 9:00am Rehearsal part 1 10:30am Break 11:00am Rehearsal part 2 12:30pm Lunch and free time NEW THIS YEAR – CONCERT TIME IS ½ HOUR LATER 3:30-4:15pm NCCBand shuttle – move cars off-site 3:30pm Stage, percussion, banners, and sound system setup 4:15pm Concert seating setup (no instruments) 5:00pm Rehearsal and soundcheck (with instruments) 5:30-7:30pm Concert afterward Shuttle will run as long as needed – no rush!

All Extra Information Is Here! • Percussion assignments link • Rehearsal notes link • Pioneer Park map • NCCBand shuttle map • Performance layout diagram link (coming soon) • Instrument Exchange list Live Radio Broadcast Our concert will be aired on KVMR radio station. · 89.5 FM Nevada City · 93.9 FM Woodland · 99.5 FM Angels Camp · 101.5 FM Truckee/Tahoe · 88.3 FM KCPC Camino · streaming LIVE at KVMR.ORG

Music List with Listening Links è (in CONCERT order) (in alphabetical order)

This year’s musical theme for the Invitational concert is “BACK TO THE FUTURE” travels about 100 years into the past, and then hops skips and jumps forward in time.

OPENER: The Star Spangled Banner arr. Claudio S. Grafullo – listen At the Movies with John Williams arr. Justin Williams iconic 20^th century composer – listen MEDLEY: The Planet Krypton (Superman: The Movie) • Flight to Neverland (Hook) • Somewhere in My Memory (Home Alone) Back to the Future Alan Silvestri/Frank Bernaerts theme from the 1985 film on its 40^th anniversary – listen The Barnstormer Nick Brown/Mackie-Beyer/Cheryl Woldseth 1910 piece celebrating the daring pilots of early aeronautics – listen Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Don Raye & Hughie Prince/James D. Ployhar Andrews Sisters’ 1941 tune using early blues style and featuring the cornet section – listen A Century of Progress John Philip Sousa/Roy J. Weger written for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair – listen Curtain Call John Wasson in the vaudeville style (popular from 1870s to 1930s) – listen Eagle Squadron Kenneth J. Alford 1942 march celebrating American pilots who served in the UK’s Royal Air Force before the USA entered World War II – listen From the Summit Kirt Mosier starting a journey and ultimately reaching the summit – listen Guardians of the Galaxy (soundtrack highlights) arr. Michael Brown you are in the future but rocking out to music from the past – listen MEDLEY: Marvel Studios Fanfare (2013) • Hooked on a Feeling (1968) • Come and Get Your Love (1973) • Groot Cocoon (2014) • Cherry Bomb (1976) • Ain't No Mountain High Enough (1967) INTERMISSION

Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood Fred Rogers/Paul Murtha songs from the wholesome television show – listen MEDLEY: Won't You Be My Neighbor? (1967) • It's You I Like (1970) • It's Such a Good Feeling (1970) The Pops Polka Arthur Fiedler & Jack Mason/Richard Maltby remembering Fiedler’s nearly 50-year tenure as Boston Pops Orchestra’s conductor (1930-1979) that popularized “lighter” symphonic literature– listen Prohibition Era March Lloyd Gould del Castillo originally titled "Near Beer" celebrating 1920-1933 with embedded tunes "How Dry I Am," "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and "Funeral March" – listen Ramshackle Rag Ted Snyder/Williams Schulz/Cheryl Woldseth celebrating syncopated ragtime music (about 1895-1918) and featuring trombone slides – listen So Nice (Summer Samba) Marcos Valle & Paulo Sergio Valle/James D. Ployhar 1964 bossa nova jazz standard with optional vocalist – listen to the original recording (not the band arrangement) Umpah! Umpah! George L. Cobb/R. E. Hildreth/Cheryl Woldseth one-step oddity, ragtime tune used by piano for silent movies, sounds like an orchestrion – listen Up Up and Away Jimmy Webb/Cheryl Woldseth – listen SAXOPHONE FEATURE – 6-part arrangement just for the saxophone players alone (and instrument-switching players too) ENCORE: Stars and Stripes Forever John Phillip Sousa (listen)

List of Musicians (as of 7/8/2026)

The host NCCBand members are listed in blue.

CONDUCTOR Cheryl Woldseth FLUTE 1 Diane Beck Jeanette Langdell Lisa Laughtlin (+piccolo) Cory Moody Laurie Piner (+piccolo) Maggi Shelbourn (+piccolo) Michael Smidt (+Db piccolo) Ariana Vickers (+piccolo) Susie West FLUTE 2 Amanda Apple Alice Jacobs (+piccolo) Kris McCarrick Riley McCarrick Cadence McKibben Diane Nickerson Lynn Peshoff Leslie Schoenberg Eve Somjen Melanie Douglas Webb Kay Wedel OBOE Kit Chesnut (2) Rebecca Seijas-Ball (1) (+saxA2) BASSOON Bruce Piner Joshua Tiffany (+saxT2) CONTRA-BASSOON David Ferree (SaxA2)

Eb CLARINET Derek Evans (+Bb1, SaxS) CLARINET 1 Teresa Gaman Amy Herman David Schwartz Jan Woldseth (+saxB) CLARINET 2 Brendan Allen Merna Fedyna Riley Hauser Joelle Lake Kevin Le (+piccolo) CLARINET 3 Carol Andrews Kendra Fifield Riley Hauser (+saxA2) Carrie Langkabel Donna M. Meyer Lynne Schonder (+SaxT1) Anne Uher CLARINET, ALTO David Lake (+Bb1) James Langdell (+Bb2) Bill Powell (+Bb3, SaxBs) CLARINET, BASS Lucas Elardi Linda Coughenour Norene Goldberg (+saxA2) Kay McCammond CONTRA-CLARINET

SAXOPHONE, ALTO 1 Gary Anderson (+soprano) Dave Bandler Paula Clingan Andrea McKibben (+picc) Brian Olson (+soprano) Deanna Olson Mary Whitmore SAXOPHONE, ALTO 2 Ryan Apple Allen Nickerson Carla Nordstrom Phil Preston Howard Schiff (+soprano) SAXOPHONE, TENOR Vega Alvarez (2) Ethan Conklin (1) Barbara Corrick (1) Mark Potampa (1) Tim Proffitt (1) Craig Scott (2) Vincent Warm (2) SAXOPHONE, BARITONE Ren Easley Julie Gustafson Terry Horlick Alex Jimenez Teresa Minervini Jeanie Thurston FRENCH HORN Jo Michael Duke (3) Steve Fernald (3/4) William Langdell (1) Pat Rosales (2) Amy Traugot (4) David Tuttle (3) Adam Zarookian (2)

TRUMPET/CORNET 1 John Furtado (+flugelhorn1) Greg Goodknight Ryan McKibben Ken Stafford (+flugelhorn2) Jim West (+flugelhorn) TRUMPET/CORNET 2 Ray Blackham (+flugelhorn) Nick Gordon (+flugelhorn3) Karin Hofland Alex Rosprim TRUMPET/CORNET 3 Oliver Cook Lance Haliday Jim Luckinbill Julie Taggart TROMBONE 1 Francis Chew Stacy Enke Larry Faller Mike Sarringar TROMBONE 2 Dave Bear Chris Hofland Jason Woldseth (+SaxB) TROMBONE 3 Dana Douglas Art Kharns James Kurtz

BARITONE/EUPHONIUM Bill Bates (TC) John Gibson (TC) Tom Larsen (TC) Roy McKibben (TC) Brian Munger (TC) George Preston (BC) TUBA Michael Boorstein Michelle Daniels (+saxT2) Walter Webb (+saxA1) BASS GUITAR Bob Burbridge PERCUSSION Anthony Andino (mallets) Rowan Ball Lee Bittner Michael Ireland Miles Mason Oliver Muzio (timpani) Kurt Remick BAND HANDS Joelle Lake (rehearsal food) Dani Loza Greg Mason Mary Rose Preston David Rosprim (announcer) Hugh Shelbourn (stage manager) Peter Traugot (photographer)

morning rehearsal 7/27/2025 at Pioneer Park’s picnic grove

lunch time picnic 7/27/2025 at Pioneer Park’s picnic grove

Prior Band Musician Invitational Events

• 2025 “California: Ability’” program and YouTube video and Facebook photos and Google photos – plus KVMR podcast

• 2024 “(earth) WIND (fire & water)’” program, Facebook photos, Google album, and YouTube video

• 2023 “Going Places’” program, Facebook photos, and Google album, and Youtube video

• 2020, 2021, and 2022 cancelled due to Covid19 pandemic

• 2019 “By the 9s” program, Facebook photos, and Google album, KVMR broadcast 1^st half and Interview and 2^nd half, YouTube videos Broadway One-Step, Holiday for Trombones, Rain, Up

• 2018 “Episode 7: The Basses Strike Back” program, Facebook photos. and Google album

• 2017 “Burning Band” program, Google album. and KVMR podcast MP3 link (listen or download it)

• 2016 “Strange New Worlds” program, Facebook photos. and Google album

• 2015 “Centennial Jubilee” program, Facebook photos. and Google album and YouTube

• 2014 “How Sweet It Is” program, Facebook photos. and Google album

• 2013 “California Dreamin’” program, Facebook photos, and Google album

• 2012 "Along for the Ride" program, Facebook photos, and Google album

• 2011 "A Patchwork of American Music" program, Google album, and YouTube video

• 2010 "Out of this World" program and Google album

• 2009 "Americans We" program and Google album

• 2008 "The Spirit of Champions" program, Google album, and YouTube video

• 2007 "A River Runs Through It" program, YouTube video

• 2006 "Step in Time" program, Google album, and YouTube video

• 2005 "You Must Remember This" program and Google album

• 2004 “The Sky’s the Limit” program and Google album

To see more, visit the Nevada County Concert Band website's History page.