Pictured above is band member Deidre Ford, who will be guest vocalist at the Oak Ridge Community Band’s concert on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. (Submitted photo)

The Oak Ridge Community Band will have its last outdoor concert of the season at 7 p.m. Monday, September 5, in A.K. Bissell Park.

The Labor Day performance will feature vocalist Deidre Ford, who will be singing Hoagy Carmichael’s “Star Dust” and George Gershwin’s”But Not for Me.” Ford, a bass clarinetist with the Community Band, sings and plays baritone saxophone with the Knoxville-based Ensemble Swing Time Band, sings with the Little Big Band, Jack Russell Terriers, Vocal Big Band, and has played clarinet and saxophone in a number of theater productions.

Among the selections the Community Band will perform are James McLeod’s “State Street Strut,” a medley of tunes in Michael Buble’s “Crooner’s Serenade,” Paul Yoder’s tribute to Duke Ellington in “Salute the Duke,” and Warren Barker’s arrangement of “Themes Like Old Times” with “My Melancholy Baby,” “Ain’t We Got Fun,” “On Moonlight Bay,” and “After You’ve Gone,” a press release said.

The audience will also enjoy hearing Warren Barker’s American overture “From Sea to Shining Sea” and John Williams’s fast-paced “The Cowboys,” which will be recognized by John Wayne fans as the theme song from the 1972 movie “The Cowboys.” Rounding out the program will be Sousa’s “The Thunderer,” G.H. Huffine’s “Them Basses,” and Jay Dawson’s arrangement of “Tennessee Salute.” [Read more…]