The Northern Michigan Brass Band (NMiBB) will present a concert at 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, May 5, in the Great Lakes Center for the Arts at Bay Harbor in Petoskey. Continuing their long-standing tradition of programming something for everyone, this 30-piece, British-style brass band will perform an eclectic mix of traditional brass band classics, marches, transcriptions, contemporary contest pieces, pop and jazz. The narrator for this program will be Judy Wagley from CMU Public Media.

The concert will begin with "Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic" written in 1924 by Richard Strauss to celebrate the famous orchestra’s 40th anniversary, followed by "Colonial Song" by Percy Grainger, one of his most original pieces. The program will continue with three selections from "Pineapple Poll," a comic ballet by Charles Mackerras based on the music of Gilbert and Sullivan, "Symphonic Concert March" by G. Bonelli and the "March for Archduke Albrecht" by the Austro-Hungarian composer, Karl Komzák. The second half of the program will open with "Farewell to a Slavic Woman," a pre-revolution patriotic Russian march by Vasily Agapkin followed by "Elton John in Concert," a medley of some of his biggest hits including Nikita, Blue Eyes and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. Next, as a tribute to the big band swing era of the 1930’s, NMiBB’s own Bob Bellairs will be featured as the drummer on Louis Prima’s "Sing Sing Sing." Of course, no brass band concert would be complete without at least one traditional American march, and this time the band will close the program with "The Chimes of Liberty" by Edwin Franko Goldman.