Abbey Road Band (Tribute to the Beatles)
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Sponsored by: Washington Square Residental Community and The Murphy Insurance Group – Ann LaFleur.

The Abbey Road Band is a live tribute to the music of the Beatles! This is a show that will entertain an audience of any age as we all know and love the Beatles. You will be amazed at how much the group sounds like the Beatles, having spent countless hours studying the music and original recordings to perfect the arrangements for a live tribute show like none other.

Sample Program

• A Hard Day’s Night
• And I Love Her
• If I Fell
• Can’t Buy Me Love
• I Want To Hold Your Hand
• Help!
• 8 Days A Week
• We Can Work It Out
• I Saw Her Standing There
• Love Me Do
• Yesterday
• Ticket To Ride
• Ob La Di, Ob La Da
• Get Back

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Intersection (Classical trio | piano, cello, violin)
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Sponsored by Sarah & James Langteau & Family and Dr. Peter Kurtz.

After a WILDLY successful 10-11 tour with Allied, we are proud to welcome back Violinist Laura Frautschi, cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper and pianist John Novacek, and their group Intersection. They have forged a powerful connection with audiences worldwide. The trio performs a varied program of repertoire from all parts of the musical world, with vitality, verve, and diversity.

Sample Program

• Trio In B Major, Allegro Con Brio – Brahms
• Claire de Lune – Debussy
• Czardas – Monti
• West Side Story – Bernstein
• Liebestraum No. 3 – Liszt
• Carmen Suite – Bizet
• Rags – Novacek
• Country Fiddle – Schoenfield
• Milonga Del Angel – Piazzola
• Rhapsody In Blue – Gershwin
• Piano Trio No. 1, in d minor – Mendelssohn
• Piano Trio in a minor – Ravel

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The Hunts (Family fiddlers, dancers and singers)
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Sponsored by: Rennes Health Group.

The Hunts are a family of nine whose performances cover a wide spectrum of musical genres, ranging from Celtic to country to rock. Champion fiddling is mixed with a percussive blend of world-ranked step dancing, drums, djembes, ashikos, and cajons. The Hunts have performed in Scotland, Ireland, Canada and all over the United States. They have opened for the Virginia Symphony and performed for Queen Elizabeth during her most recent visit to the United States!

Sample Program

• Devil Went Down To Georgia
• Thunderstorm
• I’ll Fly Away
• Green Eyes
• Johnny’s Song
• The Story
• Copperplate
• Worn
• Apple Tree
• Gypsy
• Dance Of Love
• Crazy Fingers
• Old Joe Clark
• Catharsis

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Home Free (Vocal a cappela quintet)
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Sponsored by: Menominee Area Arts Council.

The award winning a cappella sensation, Home Free, is a distinctive combination of comedy and music featuring five male vocalists with extensive theatrical and musical training. Each performance showcases a new, animated, and electrifying experience that draws audiences in and leaves them amazed. With a wide range of musical genres and songs done with only the human voice and microphones, you are left with a truly unique and incredible sound.

Sample Program

• Change The World
• Bridge Over Troubled Water
• The Disney Medley – Be Our Guest
• Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
• God Bless The USA
• Life Is A Highway
• When You Say Nothing At All
• Soul Sister
• Love Potion Number 9
• Joy To The World
• I Saw Her Standing There
• Beach Boys Medley
• I’m Yours
• Stuck On You

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New Reformation Dixieland Band
Saturday, Sept 24, 2011

Sponsored by: Washington Square Residental Community and Northern Lights Clinic.

From the shores of Saginaw Michigan the New Reformation Band has given thousands of performances worldwide, playing traditional jazz, for over 38 years. The universal popularity enjoyed by this group emanates from its versatile and talented gang of seven musicians, all of whom contribute instrumentally, vocally and humorously.

Sample Program

• Little Rock Getaway
• Sheik of Araby
• Coney Island Washboard
• In A Sentimental Mood
• All of Me
• Wrought Iron Rag
• Just A Closer Walk
• Londonderry Air
• Limehouse Blues

Anderson & Roe (piano duo – four hands on one piano)
Friday, October 28, 2011

Sponsored by: Sarah & James Langteau & Family and Hansen-Onion-Martell Funeral Home.

Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe are perhaps the most thrilling young duet performing today. These Juilliard School graduates are known for their adrenaline-filled performances, innovative programming and refined artistry. They have appeared on NPR and MTV, toured North America, and performed in nearly every NYC venue imaginable, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to name a couple.

Sample Program

• Vocalise – Rachmaninoff
• Blue Danube – Strauss
• Hungarian Dances – Brahms
• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Dukas
• Embraceable You – Gershwin
• Imagine – Lennon
• Londonderry Aire – Traditional
• The Rite of Spring – Stravinsky
• Sabre Dance – Khatchaturian
• Billie Jean – Jackson

Three Style – Vocals with piano
Friday, February 10, 2012

Sponsored by: Everard’s Flowers and The Murphy Insurance Group – Ann LaFleur.

Singers Jody Briskey and Drew Jansen of Three Hits and A Miss fame, join pianist Jimmy Martin to create a dynamic new show – THREESTYLE! All three artists are consummate entertainers and bring tremendous experience to this cabaret style evening featuring well-known and loved favorites from the likes of Judy Garland, Rosemary Clooney and Patti Page – to classics like Moon River and Malaguena. Thrown in for good measure are some ragtime riffs and unique doings at the piano as well as some hoots from the hilarious Church Basement Ladies musicals. All in all THREESTYLE makes for an easy evening of popular song and lots of laughs.

Sample Program

• Get Happy / Happy Days Are Here Again
• Rock-a-Bye Your Baby
• Tennessee Waltz
• Meadowlark
• Penny Lane
• Catch a Falling Star
• Over the Rainbow
• Malaguena
• Moon River

Rastrelli Cello Quartet
Tuesday,  March 27, 2012

Sponsored by: Hansen-Onion-Martell Funeral Home and Northern Lights Clinic.

Formed in Germany by four Russians, all of whom shared a desire to prove that it is possible to play any style of music on the cello, Rastrelli Cello Quartet certainly appears to have accomplished their goal. From Baroque to Rock and all other styles in between, all of their repertoire consists of music not intended to be performed on the cello.

Sample Program

• Der Schwan (The Swan) – Camille Saint-Saens
• Syncopated Clock – Leroy Anderson
• West Side Story – Leonard Bernstein
• Andante Cantabile from “String Qrt. No. 1″ – Peter I. Tschaikowsky
• Rhapsody from “Porgy and Bess” – George Gershwin
• Night Train – Jimmy Forrest
• Take Five – Paul Desmond
• Chicago – John Kander
• Blue Rondo a la Turk – Dave Brubeck
• Vocalise – Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” – Felix Mendelssohn
• Suite No. 1, Op. 46, from “Peer Gynt” – Edvard Grieg

Metales M5 – Brass Quintet
Tuesday,  April 10,2012

Sponsored by: Great Lakes Custom Tool MFG, Inc. and U.P. Engineers & Architects, Inc.

As Mexico’s leading brass quintet, Metales M5 unites classical and world music, contemporary repertoire and pops arrangements in programs that range through the brass literature and beyond. These five young musicians break the barriers of musical genres as they take the blues to the opera and Bach to the roads of Michoacan. Metales M5 is fresh, funny, and entertaining!

Sample Program

• Gershwin’s Summertime
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor – J.S. Bach
• Libertango – Astor Piazolla
• Trumpet Voluntary – Maurice Green
• Star Wars Theme – John Williams
• Overture to Figaro – W.A. Mozart
• Fugue in G minor – J.S. Bach
• Flight of the Bumblebee – N. Rimsky Korsakov
• West Side Story selections – Leonard Bernstein

October 28, 2011 — Anderson & Roe Piano Duet
Sponsored by: James & Sarah Langteau and Family
Sponsored by: Hansen-Onion-Martell Funeral Home

February 10, 2012 — Three Style
Sponsored by: The Murphy Insurance Group — Ann LaFleur
Sponsored by: Everard’s Flowers, Inc.

March 27, 2012 –Rastrelli Cello Quartet
Sponsored by: The Hearing Studio at Northern Lights Clinic
Sponsored by: Hansen-Onion-Martell Funeral Home

April 10, 2012 — Metales M5 Mexican Brass
Sponsored by: Great Lakes Custom Tool MFG, Inc.
Sponsored by: U.P. Engineers & Architects, Inc.