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As part of WPAA’s fall line up, “America’s Sweethearts” will be preforming a wide range of music from Broadway to Big-Band in Three-Part Harmony.
America loved the swinging sounds of female close-harmony groups even before The Andrews Sisters hit the airwaves. But audiences will hear great vintage songs with fresh ears when AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS take the stage November 3, at 3:00 pm at the Cultural Arts Center on the Colby College campus in Colby. AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS charm audiences of all ages while navigating their way through a variety of trios, duets, and solo features... all with a slice of old-fashioned fun! This program is made possible through the
Western Plains Arts Association is sponsoring The Wichita Children's Theatre in area schools with the support of Dane G. Hansen, and the community foundations in Logan, Sheridan, and Thomas counties.
Get ready for a musical experience, ripped from the pages of Mo Willems' beloved, award-winning, best-selling children's books, Elephant & Piggie! An elephant named Gerald and a pig named Piggie are the "bestus" (a word Gerald and Piggie made up that means "very best") friends, but Gerald worries that something could go wrong that would end their friendship. Piggie is not worried at all. She's even happier and more excited than usual. That's because she and Gerald are invited to a party hosted by the Squirrelles, singing squirrels who love to have a good time. And so, begins a day when anything is possible.
The Wichita Children's Theatre Professional Touring Company will present ELEPHANT& PIGGIE: WE'RE IN A PLAY at the following schools.
Suzy Bogguss had a revelation on stage with Garrison Keillor in 2008. Everyone loves to sing along on “Red River Valley” – except the children who somehow don't know the song. Folk songs are the scrapbook of the American experience, but as music education fades from our public schools, she worried; these beautiful melodies are in danger of being overlooked. She resolved to record these timeless songs in an updated but reverent way – so that everyone can sing along on “Red River Valley.”
And who better than the golden throated Suzy? The platinum selling songstress already had a full bookshelf of Grammy and CMA awards and now with the release of American Folk Songbook she can put her own book up there too. The CD and companion Songbook was released in the summer of 2011.
Northwest Kansans can hear Suzy at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday October 6th in Oakley, Kansas at the Oakley High School Auditorium. Admission is by season ticket or individual ticket at the door.
In additional to the many WPAA businesses, individual sponsors, and the Logan County Community Foundation. The Dane. Hansen Foundation is a major contributor.
“Music has always been my purest joy even as a child,” Suzy writes. “One of my favorite memories is my grade-school music teacher pounding on the piano and leading the class in rousing renditions of folk songs from all around the world.”
For the first time in 10 years, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band returns to Colby, Kansas as part of the band’s Coast to Coast tour, performing a free 7:30 p.m. concert on Wednesday, October 16th at the Colby Event Center.
For full details, please visit www.marineband.marines.mil/Tour.
Free tickets are available starting September 16th. Seating is general admission and ticket holders must be seated by 6:45 p.m.; remaining seats will be released to the standby line at that time.
The web site for free tickets is https://marineband.ticketleap.
“We are incredibly excited to continue the tradition of our national concert tour.” Marine Band Director Lt. Col. Ryan Nowlin said. “Musicians of the band are more eager than ever to share their musical talents with audiences live, and in-person on this Coast to Coast tour.”
Nowlin has programmed musical selections in the style of the band’s 17th Director John Philip Sousa, who initiated the concert tour tradition in 1891. Concertgoers can expect a mix of works including traditional band repertoire, Sousa marches, contemporary compositions, vocal and instrumental solos and a patriotic salute to the Armed Forces.
Sunday, Sept. 13. 3:00 p.m. | Oakley H.S. Auditorium, Oakley Blackwater Draw, a new cutting edge group of young musicians/singers from Texas, will open the season with a bang! Sunday, Sept. 29. 3:00 p.m. | Cultural Arts Center, Colby Nashville-based male a cappella quintet, Street Corner Symphony will do a hip show of music from gospel to rock & pop. Sunday, October 6. 3:00 p.m. | Oakley H.S. Auditorium, Oakley Legendary Grammy award winning country artists Suzy Bogguss will do a concert
