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performance schedule highlights 2005 |  |
TINLEY
PARK, IL - Lead by an ambitious Brendan Koch, the Tinley Park Community Band and
Jazz Band went through 2005 with an active concert schedule: - The
band's first performance this year was at the Midwest Music Festival at
Lemont High School on Saturday, February 26. The Midwest Music Festival
is a competition for high school bands and the Concert Band performed as the exhibition
band while the judges are finalized their decisions.
- On
Sunday, March 13, the Jazz Band played to rave reviews at the spaghetti
dinner fundraiser for the Victor J. Andrew High School German-American Exchange,
which is raising money to send students to Germany. The dinner was held VFW Bremen
Post
2791 in Tinley Park.
- The
Tinley Park Community Band and the West Suburban Concert Band cosponsored the
2005 CAVALCADE OF BANDS at Argo Community High School in Summit on Saturday,
April 9. Also appearing were the Southwest Community Concert Band and the
Argo Community High School Symphonic Band. The band wishes to thank ACHS, ACHS
band director Bob Good and the ACHS Music Parents for hosting this year's
Cavalcade.
- On
April 17, the Concert Band performed at an “Old-fashioned Sousa
Concert” sponsored by the Tinley Park-Park District. The concert was a tribute
to American composer John Philip Sousa and each band featured a Sousa composition.
Bands in the concert included: St. George Elementary School, Central Middle School,
District 140 Middle Schools, V.J. Andrew High School, host band Tinley Park High
School and the Tinley Park Community Band.
- The
Jazz Band took the stage again on Sunday, April 24 at Tinley Park's
new Public Library.
- The
Concert Band finished the Winter/Spring season with their regular Spring
concert sponsored by the Tinley Park-Park District on May 1 at Prairie
View Middle School in Tinley Park.
- Finally,
the Jazz Band was honored to perform at the inauguration for Tinley Park
Mayor Ed Zabrocki and other recently elected village officials. The ceremony was
held on May 2 at the Tinley Park Convention Center.
- The
band's summer season began with the Concert Band in a “Concert in The Park”
on Sunday, June 12. This concert was held on the “band slab”
on the east side of the Tony Bettenhausen Recreation Center in Tinley Park.
- The
Concert Band finished their summer by hitting the road and traveling to Bicentennial
Park in downtown Joliet for an evening concert on Thursday, June 30
which was enthusiastically received by the crowd on a warm summer evening..
- The
Jazz Band took over for the second half of summer. On Saturday, August 20,
they made a triumphant return to the Illinois State Fair in Springfield,
Illinois. The day after, Sunday, August 21, the Jazz Band performed at
their second “Concert in The Park” on the “band slab” at the
Tony Bettenhausen Recreation Center at 171st Street and 80th Avenue in
Tinley Park.
- On
Thursday, August 25, the Jazz Band made its own appearance at Joliet's
Bicentennial Park. It was back to Joliet on Wednesday, August 31, as
the band wrapped up summer with an appearance at Silver Cross Stadium to
play the National Anthem at the Joliet
JackHammers baseball game.
- On
Sunday, September 11, the band rocked and rolled through Tinley Park and
gave a concert in Zabrocki Plaza at the annual Tinley
Park Autumn Fine Arts Festival and Parade.
- The
Arts Alive! Jazz Band did its part for those on the Gulf
Coast by volunteering their services at a hurricane relief drive at St. Joseph's
High School in Westchester, Illinois on Saturday, October 8.
Set
against a cold, gray, October sky -- and having to invoke a little-known codicil
in their contract that allows them to play when the band size exceeds the audience
size -- a good time was eventually had by all, especially at the post-performance
dinner.
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- Sunday,
November 6 was the band's annual Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser held at
the VFW Bremen Post 2791 at 17147 S. Oak Park Avenue in Tinley Park from
1 to 5 PM. In addition to an outstanding spaghetti dinner and raffle prizes
provided by area merchants, members of the band performed throughout the dinner,
with a performance by the Arts Alive! Jazz Band ending the
evening. We have pictures! Click here
to see the official 2005 Spaghetti Dinner Photo Album.
- The
Concert Band ended the year on Sunday, December 4 in a combined concert
with the Arts Alive! Chorale sponsored by the Tinley Park-Park District.
It was the concert band's first appearance at Virgil Grissom Middle School.
The
members of the band thank their friends, family and sponsors for all of their
support throughout 2005. BACK
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