Roger McConnell

Muncie’s very own AMERICA’S HOMETOWN BAND, “the Civic Band of Muncie”, revs up Emens Auditorium with a FREE  “Parade of Stars” concert, in conjunction with Emens 50th anniversary celebration. This concert puts the spotlight on five standout solo performers and the artwork of Ball State Professor Emeritus Ned Griner.

The standout solo performers are:

Ball State alumni and retired local physician Phil Cooley, performs Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16. The band accompaniment for this piece is arranged by award winning Ball State composer Jody Nagel.

Ball State alumni, outstanding music educator, and xylophone soloist David Robbins performs Floyd Werle’s ragtime piece, The Golden Age of the Xylophone.

Ball State Saxophone Professor Dr. George Wolfe plays Sammy Nestico’s beautiful ballad, Persuasion.

Local trumpeters Joel Replogle and Mike White are featured in an arrangement by Donald Hunsberger,“Themes from Bizet’s opera Carmen”. Replogle is one of Muncie’s best-kept secrets: a world-class soloist who spends most of his time being a husband, father and computer geek. Mike White is known as one of Indiana’s best lead trumpeters.

Music director of America's Hometown Band is Roger McConnell.

-MUSIC FOR FRIENDS – It’s a special night of dinner tunes by the small ensemble specialists from America’s Hometown Band.  Join them and enjoy them on Thursday the 15th of October, 2015, from 6-8 pm at Vera Mae's Bistro in downtown Muncie, 209 S. Walnut Street.  Cover charge is $5.  Reservations needed. Contact Vera Mae's at veramaes.com, or call 747-4941.

The AHB music-makers on hand are: Flute Choir, Clarinet Choir, Saxophone Quartet, Trombone Quartet, and the Jazz Combo to finish the evening.

AMERICA’S HOMETOWN BAND PRESENTS:
                 “SAX IN THE CITY”
with Larry Dickson, Jazz Baritone Saxophonist
   - at BSU’s Pruis Hall Auditorium, Muncie -
     Sunday evening, 7:00 PM, Oct. 25, 2015

The Big Band contingent from America's Hometown Band presents its autumn concert from the stage of Pruis Hall auditorium at Ball State University at 7:00 pm, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. Jazz Baritone Saxophonist Larry Dickson is the evening’s special Guest Performer. Tickets are $5.00 at the door, with open seating. Free parking at the nearby Emens parking structure. The superb instrumentalists of the AHB Big Band are under the leadership of co-directors Will Frazier and Phil Cooley.

ON STAGE AT BSU’s EMENS AUDITORIUM on SUNDAY, DEC. 6 at 6:30 pm — bring the family to enjoy the sparkling bright concert band and jazz band sounds of Christmas from the very talented musicians of America’s Hometown Band.  

 In addition to the bands’ numbers, musical guests for the evening include:   Cardinal Marimba Quartet;  Royerton Elementary School Choir ;  George Wolfe Saxophone Quartet ;  Note to Self and Ladies Choice, men’s a cappella singing groups ; David Robbins , xylophone soloist;  Guistino Carrano and Diana Guinn, vocal soloists.

Parking is free at both the Sursa and Emens parking structures.