The summer concerts by the Karl L. King Municipal Band continue on Sunday evening, June 21, starting at 7:30 p.m.

There is no admission charge, courtesy of the City of Fort Dodge. These concerts are held at the Karl L. King Band Shell in Oleson Park. Dan Cassady returns to the podium this week as Conductor. Paul Bloomquist will return as announcer.

An ice cream social by the Southeast Valley School Fine Arts Boosters precedes each concert. Ice cream and brownies will be available for a free-will donation, starting around 6:30 pm. Persons attending these concerts are reminded to bring their own lawn chairs, since no public seating is provided.

A wide variety of music is planned to appeal to all musical tastes during this special Father’s Day presentation. If Dad is a fan of those fast-paced marches, then there will be several on this program. The concert will open with Henry Fillmore’s classic march, “The Klaxon,” dedicated to the producers of the Klaxon Automobile Horns. The music of the band’s namesake, Karl King, is also very popular and two of Karl King’s nearly 200 march compositions are included, “Yellowstone Trail” and “The Iowa Band Law.” Closing the concert will be John Philip Sousa’s “Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,” written for the Almas Temple Shrine Band of Washington D.C.

If Dad likes the music of America’s greatest art form, then a special feature of this concert will be the performance by the Dixieland Combo on the “Original Dixieland Concerto.” Combo members include Nikole Nuttall on Clarinet, Cindy Johnson on Tenor Sax, Tim Miller on Trumpet, Paul Bloomquist on trombone, Monte Leichsenring on Tuba, and Jeremy Smith on Percussion.

Maybe Dad likes music that is a bit more serious in style. The evening’s classical offerings will include a Chorale Prelude titled “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” composed by Johann Schop and Johann Sebastin Bach, along with Charles Gounod’s, “Festive Dance” from his opera, Faust.

In case of inclement weather at the starting time, the concert may be delayed or cancelled. Any announcement will be made on their Facebook page.