The Southeast Valley School Fine Arts Boosters will have ice cream and brownies available for a freewill donation before and during the concert, starting around 6:45 p.m.

Persons attending this special Flag Day concert may bring small American flags to wave at appropriate times during the evening. There is no admission charge for these concerts, since they are provided as a public service by the City of Fort Dodge. Those attending should bring lawn chairs or blankets, since no public seating is provided.

Conductor Dan Cassady will be gone from the podium this week. For many years, he has been on the staff of the Reggie Schive Summer Jazz Camp at Iowa Lakes Community College, the longest-operating jazz camp of its kind in the country. Directing the band for this concert will be two of its members, Tim Miller and Paul Bloomquist, and the announcer will be Monte Leichensring.

Tim Miller, a member of the band’s trumpet section, will conduct the first half of the concert. He is retired after a long and successful career at both Humboldt High School (7 years) and Humboldt Junior High School (24 years). He previously taught 5-12 Band for 9 years at Sheffield-Chapin Schools. Tim continues to perform locally with Jive for Five Brass Quintet, Humboldt Big Band, 515 Big Band, Lone Tree Revival, and Oak Hill Church Praise Band.

He has chosen several selections for his portion, including E.E. Bagley’s “National Emblem March”, Henry Fillmore’s march, “Americans We”, and a concert march by James Curnow, “High Bridge”. Tim has also chosen the exciting “Overture for Winds” by Charles Carter, Irving Berlin’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”, and a collection of patriotic songs to observe Flag Day, “An American Celebration”.

Paul Bloomquist, a member of the Band’s trombone section, will conduct the second half of the concert. Bloomquist is a native of Dayton and graduated from Southeast Webster High School. He previously taught 9-12 Band at Manson Northwest Webster. Paul is currently an instructor and director of bands at Iowa Central Community College, and performs with Jive for Five and the 515 Big Band.

For his portion of the concert, Bloomquist has also chosen several selections, including one of Karl L. King’s earliest published compositions, “Emblem of Freedom March”, C.E. Duble’s “Old Glory Triumphant March”, and Fred Jewell’s “The Boy Scouts March”. Rounding out his portion will be a tribute to members of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard with “Heroes of the Sea”, and a collection of well-known songs from the Big-Band era by Clarinda IA’s own, “Glenn Miller in Concert”.