The entertainment featured for this week will be the THE MICHIANA METRO LIGHTHOUSE CHORUS

The Michiana Metro, Lighthouse Chorus is the areas top ranked barbershop singing organization. They began singing in 1999 and under the direction of Gene Hanover, have the status of the Top Ranked Small Barbershop Chorus in the Pioneer (Michigan) District of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America, Inc., the worlds largest all male singing society. They are consistently ranked among the top choruses in Michigan and in October of last year they achieved the rank of third over all against twenty one other choruses from all over Michigan coming up from tenth just a year and half earlier.

They are proud to be very active with the youth in Northern Indiana and Southwest Michigan having quartets sing in schools. They help getting children involved in school vocal programs and the Lighthouse Chorus also provides school music programs with coaching and music for their boys and girls barbershop quartets. They also provide help with vocal workshops within the church community of the greater Michiana Metro area. For more information, look them up on the web at: www.lighthousechorus.org

This is their fourth appearance here at the St Joseph Band Shell

The band then turns to a John Philip Sousa March, "Corcoran Cadets."

This is following be a number featuring the entire clarinet section of the band in Leroy Anderson’s "Clarinet Candy." The concert then concludes with a concert march by George Kenny, "Band Of Gold."

The hour long Municipal Band concerts at the John E. N. Howard band shell are held each Sunday at 3:30 & 7:30 p.m. and continue through Sunday, September 4 and conclude with the final set of concerts Monday, September 5, Labor Day.

Last updated on 06/28/2007