Membership:  Our '23 Roster currently had some 90 players!
                         but we always welcome more (no audition)
                 (Eager percussionists especially welcome!)

        Season is April-October, always with all of July off.

    Concerts (up to 8) are usually in daytime, in western Twin Cities locations.   
                                                            
   COVID policy: Vaccination / masking not required . 
        Being up-to-date vaccinated is STRONGLY! recommended.
                               
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2023 Season music repertoire:

• Flourish for Wind Band        Ralph Vaughn Williams
  Pageant                               Vincent Persichetti
  Side Partners [Trumpet duo] Herbert L. Clarke
  Music of the Beatles             arr. Sweeney
  Air for Band                          Frank Erickson
  Hebraic Fantasie                  David Bobrowitz
  Mini-Suite                             Morton Gould
  Wade in the Water               arr. Stephan Bulla
  Winds of Change                 Bob Dylan (arr.Kinyon)
    encore: Stars & Stripes Forever    John Philip Sousa
  

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Audio-Video SSB Recordings - on YouTube!:

   2023 SSB concerts have been posted on YT by host locations:
      June ?, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Minneapolis
      Sep   ?, at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church, Plymouth

  To see/hear videos of our recent-year concerts,
go to our YouTube channel "SynodSeniorBand-MN"
(anybody can subscribe).

2021 Restart Concert, Nov.9, 2021 video at Gethsemane LC (Hopkins)
   Circus Days - Karl King
   Broadway Journey - arr. Christensen
   Chorale and Shaker Dance II - Zdechlik (cond. by Phil Raaen)
   French Horn Rag - Al Sweet
   Sons of Liberty - Neeck
   Ave Maria - Biebl/arr. Serber (conducted by Tom Engquist)
   St. Louis Blues - W.C. Handy/arr. Henderson
   Skippidy Hoppidy - Al Sweet
   Seventy Six Trombones - Willson/arr. Bocook
2019 Finale Concert, Oct.26 video at Westwood LC (St. Louis Park) 
  Playlist
1. Minnesota March
2. Chorale and Shaker Dance II (Phil Raaen cond.)
3. Latina (Dick Papke cond.)
4. Ave Maria (Serber arr.) (Tom Engquist cond.)
5. On the Edge polka
6. Heartstorm (Jim McCreary composer)
7. Cabalina
8. Prince in Concert
9. Gopher Variations (Nick VanDuzee cond.)
10. Stars and Stripes Forever


2017 Finale Concert Recording (.mp3 audio)

2016 Finale Concert Recording (.mp3 audio)

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