This week, the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band celebrates America with a show featuring patriotic music. The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale joins the band to add their voices to “American The Beautiful” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic, as well as a Samuel Barber march and Glenn Miller medley.
Steve and Dennis also discuss recent features on the Muni Band in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, and the culmination of a decade-long project to record and post recordings of marches composed by past director Frank Piersol.
July 3 at Guthridge Park, Hiawatha, July 7 at Bever Park. All shows at 7:0pm. Livestream at facebook.com/crmuniband. More information at crmuniband.org.
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