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Left: LCB President Diane Walkup introduces the Jim Alkire Band with Aura Lee.
Center: Jim Alkire, leader of the dance band and the Emporium Dixieland Jazz Band.
Right: Vocalist Aura Lee Emsweller, also Executive Director of Thomas Duncan Hall.
Left four: Jim Alkire (drums), Lynn Oberholtzer (banjo), Al Jones (trumpet), Paul Addison (trombone).
Right: The rhythm section: Lynn Oberholtzer, Jim Alkire, Lynn Colwell (bass).
Left: Jake Noparstak plays sax while Aura Lee sings "Darktown Strutters' Ball".
Left center: The band's friend, 91-year-old Robert, dances to "That's a'Plenty".
Right center: Steve Ruppert and Kib Brady enjoy the band singing "You've Been a Good Old Wagon".
Right: The band ends the concert with "Glory Glory Hallelujah".
On Thursday, August 19, the combined Jim Alkire Band with Aura Lee, and the Emporium Dixieland Jazz Band, performed at Riehle Plaza for the Lafayette Citizens Band audience. The Jim Alkire Band is a dance band that was started in 1969 and is celebrating its 41st anniversary. The Emporium Dixieland Band, also led by Jim Alkire, started in 1973, and has performed before for the Lafayette Citizens Band audience. Thursday's concert featured music from both bands.
The concert featured many Dixieland favorites, including the "Washington and Lee Swing", "Royal Garden Blues", and "You've Been a Good Old Wagon". Featured vocalist Aura Lee Emsweller, who is also the Executive Director of Thomas Duncan Hall, sang several numbers, including "Route 66", "Bill Bailey", "Daddy", and the "Breakfast Blues". You can see the complete program here.
NOTE: There will not be any Thursday concerts for the next two weeks. However, we invite you to return on Monday, September 6, for the LCB's season finale, the Labor Day concert. The concert begins at 7:00 pm!.
Left: LCB Executive Director Brenda Hohman, President Diane Walkup, and Board members
Nancy Bowker and Linda Jeffries prepare to distribute programs for the Vintage Brass concert.
Center: Diane Walkup welcomes Mr. Steve Rhodes as the new Musical Director and Conductor of the Vintage Brass Band.
Right: Steve Rhodes introduces the 1895 piece "Bombasto" by O. R. Farrar to begin the Vintage Brass concert.
Left: Percussionists Shawn Jordann, Graham Bethel and Pete Moser perform "American Patrol" by F. W. Meacham.
Center: Sound technician Steve Ruppert controls the sound balance as the Vintage Brass plays "Hail Columbia".
Right: Twenty-two muscians form the largest Vintage Brass group yet, as the players present
the 1863 music "Listen to the Mocking Bird" by Richard Milburn.
Steve Rhodes and the 22 members of the Vintage Brass stand and receive the applause of the
audience at the close of "Hunters Chorus from "The Rose of Erin", an 1868 piece by Jules Benedict.
The Vintage Brass, a performing ensemble of the Lafayette Citizens Band, took the Riehle Plaza stage on Thursday, August 12, to provide musical entertainment from the 1800s era. Steve Rhodes, who has guest-conducted the Lafayette Citizens Band on occasion, is the new conductor of the Vintage Brass, and directed the group.
The concert featured a few familiar melodies, including F. W. Meacham's "American Patrol" (which Glenn Miller later made into a swing band hit), and "Listen to the Mocking Bird". There were also some less familiar music, including "Bombasto", "General Taylor Storming Monterey", the "American Brass Band Journal Suite", "War-Songs of the Boys in Blue", and more. You can see the complete Vintage Brass program here.
Next week's concert features Jim Alkire's Emporium Dixieland Jazz Band. All concerts are free and open to the public.
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Left: Jerry Steinmetz assembles his baritone saxophone for the "Youth Triumphant" concert.
Top center: 10-year-old Mya Fuller, daughter of LCB board member Phil Fisher, hands Ellen Robbins a program.
Top right: Bill Kisinger announces the Henry Mancini tune "Moon River", arranged by Jerry Bilik.
Bottom center: Bill conducts while euphonium solist Jim Schrader plays "Hungarian Melodies".
Bottom right: The clarinet section plays "Italian Holiday" by Robert Longfield.
The Lafayette Citizens Band presented a concert on Thursday, August 5, titled "Youth Triumphant", which was also the name of one of the selections on the concert, a piece composed by Henry Hadley. The concert also featured Jim Schrader as euphonium soloist on "Hungarian Melodies" by Vincent Bach. The audience whistled along to the trio strain of Edwin Francko Goldman's "On the Mall".
Also on the program was Karl King's "Men of Music" march, Henry Mancini's "Moon River", the Second Suite in F by Gustav Holst, Robert Jager's "Goober Peas", "Italian Holiday" by Robert Longfield, and "Symphonic Gershwin", arranged by Warren Barker. You can see the complete program here.
On Thursday of this week, the Vintage Brass will provide the concert music, and on August 19th, Jim Alkire's Emporium Dixieland Jazz Band will play. Both these concerts will begin a 7:30 pm at Riehle Plaza, 2nd and Main Streets in downtown Lafayette.
