Events in September 2024–February 2025

  • Big Band Dance Party

    Big Band Dance Party

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    September 1, 2024

    Big Band Day Dance Party !

    GGPB transforms into a 17 piece Jazz Big Band with guest vocalist Tiffany Unarce Barry, Guitarist and singer Mark Burgess, and pianist Dee Spencer.

    Program:

    Blues in Hoss Flat

    Hay Burner

    Let the Good Times Roll

    Summertime

    Sway

    Days of Wine and Roses

    Shake Rattle and Roll

    The Way You Look Tonight

    Taint What You Do

    New York, New York

    Jump Jive Wail

    Georgia On My Mind

    In the Mood

    Straighten Up and Fly Right

    A Tisket, A Tasket

    I Cant Stop Loving You

    Kansas City

    Happy

    Birdland

    Tiffany Unarce Barry is a Filipino American performer, presenter, author, and educator. She is currently lead female vocalist and a violinist for the dance orchestra and swing band, Symphonia Phonotone.

    Dee Spencer

  • Winds of Work: a Labor Day Celebration

    Winds of Work: a Labor Day Celebration

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    September 2, 2024

    Winds of  Work: a Labor Day Celebration honoring working people everywhere.

    Dr German Gonzalez leads our annual Labor Day concert.

    Bring a picnic and enjoy a program of joyful American classics, plus Beatles favorites including:

    January February March ... Don Gillis

    Bayou Breakdown ... Brant Karrick

    God Bless America ... Irving Berlin

    Montego Bay ... Traditional/ Sammy Nestico

    Music of the Beatles ... arr. Michael Sweeney

    On the Mall ... Edwin F. Goldman

    Old Home Days ... Charles Ives

    Black Horse Troop ... Sousa

    This Land Is Your Land ... Woody Guthrie, arr. George Kenny

    Horse and Buggy ... Leroy Anderson

     

    Sousa

    Woody Guthrie

  • Viva Mexico!

    Viva Mexico!

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    September 8, 2024

    Viva Mexico!

    Celebrating Mexican Heritage in the U.S.

    with exciting guests Ballet Folklorico de Carlos Moreno.

    P R O G R A M

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     Celebrating the Mexican Heritage in the U.S.

    Featuring Ballet Folklorico Mexicano

    de Caros Moreno

     Zacatecas March . . . . . . . . . . G. Codina/arr. L.P. Laurendeau

    Mexican Hat Dance . . . . . .  F.A. Partichela/arr. L. Folgelberg

    Nayarit

    Jarabe Nayarita / La Majagua / Nayarita final

    Hidalgo

    La Tres Huastecas / El Querreque / El Caballito

    Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Caros Moreno

     Huapango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.P. Mancoyo/arr. L. Osmon

    La Bamba de Vera Cruz . . . . .  T. Tucci/trans. D. Hunsberger

     Baja California

    No Te Rajes Tijuana / La Loba / El Patito

    Jalisco

    El Gavilan / La Madrugada / Jarabe Tapatio

    Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Caros Moreno

     Juarez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Rafael Mendez

     Cielito Lindo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  arr. Naohiro Iwai

     

     

     

     

  • The Emerald Isle 

    The Emerald Isle 

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    September 15, 2024

    The Emerald Isle 

    in partnership with the United Irish Cultural Center of San Francisco. 

    The Band will play Irish favorites including:

    Molly on the Shore,  Irish Tune from County Derry and Shepherd's Hey ... Percy Granger

    The Girl I left Behind and The Irish Washerwoman ... Leroy Anderson

    Irish Salute, (a medley of Irish folk tunes) ... arr. Frank Cofield

    We'll be joined by dancers from Whelan Academy of Dance and the Comhaltas Irish Dancers of SF. The concert will be preceded by a ceremony at the statue of Irish Patriot Robert Emmet at noon in front of the Academy of Sciences.

  • Celebrating the Flair of Spanish Flamenco

    Celebrating the Flair of Spanish Flamenco

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    September 22, 2024

    Celebrating the Flair of Spanish Flamenco  featuring  guest performers from Toque Tercero Flamenco lead by Damien Alvarez.

    Music Director Dr German Gonzalez will lead the band in exciting music with a Spanish Flair alternating with our guest performers.

    Amparita Roca ... Jaime Texidor

    La Feria selections  ... Paul Lacome

    Andalucia ... Lecuona, arr Yoder

    Malagueña ... Lecuona, arr Nestico

    El Relicario ... J. Padilla, arr. Lang

    Aragonaise ... Massanet, arr.Laurendaeu

    Españi Cañi ... P. Marquina, arr. R. Cray

    Man of La Mancha ... M. Leig, arr. F. Erickson

  • Season Finale - Sounds from the Screen: Music of Film and TV

    Season Finale - Sounds from the Screen: Music of Film and TV

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    October 6, 2024

    Season Closer -Sounds from the Screen: Music of Film and TV

    Maestro Dr German Gonzalez leads the band in this spectacular 2024 Season Finale.

    Raiders March and music from Star Wars ... John Williams

    Themes from Zorba the Greek ... Theodorakis, arr. Whitcomb

    Colonel Bogey March  (Bridge over the River Kwai) ... Alford

    Tico Tico ... Abreu, arr Kent

    March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique ... Hector Berlioz, arr.  Leidzen

    When You Wish Upon a Star ... Harline, arr Nestico

    Funeral March of the Marionet ( Alfred Hitchcock theme) ... Gounod, arr Lake

    Selections from West Side Story ... Bernstein, arr Duthoit

    The Clowns ... Nino Rota, arr Mortimer

    2 Gymnopodies ( The Royal Tenenbaums and My Dinner with Andre) ... Satie, arr. Reed

     

    Alfred Hitchcock

    John Williams