HJ Crosby Community Band will perform spring fling cabaret concert

    DEXTER — The HJ Crosby Community Band of Dexter will perform on April 13, at the Dexter Town Hall at 2 p.m. This cabaret concert will be open to the public; bring your own food or eat what we will provide and just sit back and enjoy an hour of music. Admission will be a small paper bag for an audience participation number with the band.

Photo courtesy of HJ Crosby Community Band

SPRING FLING — The HJ Crosby Community Band will perform a spring fling cabaret concert on April 13 at 2 p.m. at the Dexter Town Hall. Band members include from left front, Nancy Batchelder, Ann Bickford, Jeff Patterson, Laura Posca, Rick Wing and Dale Huff. Back, Barbara Herring, Sue Quint, Eileen Nokes, Ken Beach, Rick Jennings, Amy Young, Jane Neptune, Mike Carolin, Charlie Foss, Dave Quint, Sara Herter, Gerry Rudmin and Tom Pierce. Not pictured, Tom Gerkovich, Rose Harper, Diana Patterson, Mark Kinney, Lena Witham, Bruce Brown, Everett Simpson, Dawna Roberts, Alan Irwin, Wendy Strout, Lou Harper and Rose Heal.

    Musical numbers will cover a large range of genre and time periods. Besides the HJ Crosby march Dress Parade, the band will also perform “In a Rose Garden”, a rare waltz composed by band namesake and Dexter native, Harold Josiah Crosby. Other numbers will include a little dance music “Blue Tango”; some show tunes “Cabaret”, “Man of La Mancha” and “The Phantom of the Opera” and some fun favorites “Dry Bones” (with a little anatomy lesson before hand by the band’s Dr. Pierce), “Irish Legends”, “In the Good Old Days” and “It’s a Most Unusual Day”, plus a few surprise pieces. The concert will end with a little help from the audience, adding the paper bag admission to the “1812 Overture” as the city codes real cannons inside the Town Hall.
    The Dexter Brass Ensemble will play a pre-concert as the audience gathers, but you won’t want to miss their portion, so come early. And, of course, we must endure the conductor’s repertoire of “bad jokes,” though we hear he has acquired a new joke book.
    So if you’re tired of the snow and cold of a long winter, join the HJ Crosby Community Band of Dexter in welcoming and celebrating the return of spring on April 13 … and remember, admission is only a small paper bag (or a small balloon can be substituted for the paper bag).