The U.S. Air Drive Band of Mid-America. (Photograph submitted)
The USA Air Drive Band of Mid-America (USAFBoMA) will current a sequence of Veterans Day live shows, together with one at East Leyden Excessive College, on the following places:
Thursday, Nov. 2: Lewis College’s St. Charles Borromeo Convocation Corridor, 7:30 p.m., Romeoville;
Friday, Nov. 3: East Leyden Excessive College, Franklin Park, 7 p.m.;
Saturday, Nov. 4: Elgin Neighborhood Faculty’s Blizzard Theater, 7 p.m.
These 90-minute live shows will characteristic the unit’s 45-member live performance band and honor the nation’s veterans, share tales of their sacrifices, and replicate.
Along with the same old marches and patriotic music, different picks will embody Broadway tunes, orchestral transcriptions, and solo literature.
Admission to those performances is free and open to the general public, however tickets are required. Go to afbandtix.com for all present info.
All musicians are active-duty airmen stationed at Scott Air Drive Base in Illinois. The band just lately gained the 2022 NATAS Mid-America Emmy for Arts & Leisure Lengthy Kind Content material for his or her “Spirit of the Season” vacation program that was broadcast on over 30 TV stations throughout the Midwest.
The band performs free civic outreach and recruiting live shows for audiences all through the Midwest, taking part in greater than 400 engagements every year. In its broader travels, the band has carried out in New York Metropolis, Philadelphia, Seattle, the Gulf Coast, Germany, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, Barbados, Grenada, Guatemala, Venezuela, Bolivia, and the Azores.
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