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Haywood Community Band presents ‘Americana’ concert

art communitybandThe Haywood Community Band will perform a concert of popular music evoking the heart of America at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, in Maggie Valley’s Community Pavilion. 

 

The program, “Americana,” will be filled with ragtime classics, music of the Blue Ridge and the Broadway stage, an African-American spiritual, a tune that evokes the era of shaped note singing, a circus march, and another with tunes of the Civil War.

Scott Joplin’s 1902 piano rag classic “The Entertainer” had a rebirth in the 1970s as the theme music of the Oscar winning film “The Sting” and continues to entertain audiences today. The Blue Ridge Reel was inspired by a composer’s visit to Asheville when he heard several bluegrass bands. The piece pays homage to the form and style of a traditional Irish reel. The evening also includes musical highlights from Jerry Herman’s beloved “Hello Dolly,” and a delightful early circus march, “Bombasto.” Composer Michael Sweeney’s “Lincoln Legacy” combines songs of the Civil War into a medley in honor of our 16th President.

Also on the program are an arrangement of “My Lord What a Mornin’,” “Prairie Songs” and the shaped-note inspired “I’m Going Home from Echoes of the Hollow Square,” a musical style featured in the movie “Cold Mountain.”

The 2014 concert series concludes on Sunday, Nov. 2, with a selection of 2014 favorites in the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church, Waynesville.

Free.

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