VocalEssence – Philip Brunelle, artistic director

Community Concert — open to all ages, general admission seating

Join us for this family-friendly version of the WITNESS concert, including repertoire from the concert at Ordway in an old-time radio show format, performed by the VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singerswith big band orchestra, soloists and conductor Philip Brunelle.

Presented in one act, this concert features the talents of Sanford Moore, Dennis Spears and Tom Keith in "Duke Ellington on the Air" with a big band made up of the High School All Star Jazz Band (featuring talented high school students from Henry, Roosevelt, Southwest and Washburn High Schools in Minneapolis and Walker West Music Academy in Saint Paul) plus the Augsburg Jazz Ensemble, directed by Robert Stacke.