The St. Joseph Municipal Band continues the 2007 summer season with its normal set of double concerts on Sunday, July 29, at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. The weekly summer concerts are held at the John E. N. Howard Band Shell in downtown St. Joseph overlooking Lake Michigan. The July 29 concerts, the 7^th of 13 double concerts scheduled for the season, will feature The Misfits, the comedy chorus from St. Joseph, and Stacie Detgen, principal horn of the band, who will guest conduct and perform a French horn solo.

Director Dr. Donald Moely, indicated the concert begins with a Sousa march entitled "Nobles of the Mystic Shrine." The band next features Stacie Detgen, principal French horn of the band performing a solo "Sonatina for Horn & Band" by Antonin Dvorak, arr. Charles Yeago. Stacie Detgen then conducts the next two numbers in the program which are: "Fanfare and Evocation," by John Moss and Henry Mancini’s "Great Waldo Pepper March," arranged for band by John Moss.

STACIE DETGEN is in her 20^th year of teaching instrumental music education and her 14^h year at Charlotte Middle School. She is a native of Buchanan, MI. Stacie is a graduate of Michigan State University and has a Master of Music Education degree from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago. This is her 28^h year of membership with the St. Joseph Municipal Band. She has been a member of the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Lansing Concert Band, has soloed with the Meridian Community Band, and has been featured with the MSU Alumni Touring Band traveling in Europe. She is active in performing with Gazebo Brass Quintet and solos and participates in the Charlotte Lawrence Avenue United Methodist Church orchestra and brass choir.

Next performing are the guests for the day, The Misfits, which are a comedy chorus from St. Joseph , directed by Joan Nozicka. Their theme for 2007 is "Hit Songs from Hit Movies." They are directed by Joan Nozicka. They will perform "Another Op’nin, Another Show," "Supercalifragilistic," "Don’t Get Around Much Anymore," "All of Me," "That’s Entertainment," and "God Bless America,"

THE MISFITS is a group of 32 recreational singers was formed in May of 1995 with 12 singers. This was a sing-a-long group at the St. Joseph/Lincoln Senior Center, who enjoyed music and decided to go to local nursing homes to entertain the residents. To "cheer up" the residents, they decided to do musical comedy and design their own "silly" costumes. Now in their thirteenth year, they have performed over 600 shows before various groups and organizations who enjoy their humor and relaxed manner. Their travels have taken them to parts of Southwestern Michigan as well as Northern Indiana. In 1997 they traveled to Branson, Missouri, for a performance. Nozicka, now retired, had taught piano and organ for many years. With her musical background, she is able to select and arrange the music that the group performs.

Members of the group include:Alice Baker, Janet Bednar, Millie Carney, Sally Cheek, Delores Frantz, Donna Johnson, Polly Judd, Norma Nitz, Josephine Perry, Lila Roethel, Cathy Sherwood, Ruby Sprague, Vera Zwar, John Bednar, Betty Bohm, Bill Carney, Lyall Dlask, Darlene Gaul, Richard Johnson, Peggy Platts, Nick Rose, Scott Sherwood, Lou Vogl, Vicki Baker, Mildred Brown, Nancy Campau, Susan Goodwin, Imelda Knowles, Joanne Parrish, Leona Rose, Betty Ross

The band next performs "A Celebration of Spirituals" arranged by Warren Barker, and concludes the concert with "Big Band Salute", arr. Eric Osterling

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 2 and conclude with the final set of concerts Monday, September 3, Labor Day.