Events in September 2024–February 2025

September

1:00 pm: Big Band Dance Party

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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.

1:00 pm: Winds of Work: a Labor Day Celebration

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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

1:00 pm: Viva Mexico!

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
September 8, 2024

Viva Mexico!

Celebrating Mexican Heritage in the U.S.

with exciting guests Ballet Folklorico de Carlos Moreno.

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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

1:00 pm: The Emerald Isle

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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.

1:00 pm: Celebrating the Flair of Spanish Flamenco

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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

October

1:00 pm: Season Finale - Sounds from the Screen: Music of Film and TV

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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

Golden Gate Park Band

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