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Country, rock ’n roll, brass sextet round out HCA season

The second half of the 2022-23 Heartland Concert Association (HCA) season starts Tuesday, March 7 with the Patsy Cline Project.

Lisa Brokop’s warm, rich voice and accompanying band will pay homage to one of country music’s greatest ladies, Patsy Cline. Sit back, relax and enjoy many of Patsy’s classic hits like “Crazy,” “Sweet Dreams” and “Walkin’ After Midnight.” Brokop is Canadian-born but lives in Nashville.

Forever Simon and Garfunkel celebrates the best-selling duo in rock ’n roll history Monday, March 27. The concert stars award-winning singer-songwriters Sean Altman (founder of Rockapella) and Jack Skuller (Songwriters Hall of Fame Buddy Holly Prize).

With humor, soaring energy, charm and laser-precise harmony, the duo lead the audience on a journey through Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s teenage roots, their early success as a groovy folk act, their global dominance as hit-makers and the best of Paul Simon’s solo career.

Copper Street Brass will close out the season Friday, May 12. This Minneapolis-based sextet is composed of two trumpets, trombone, tuba, French horn and percussion with several members doubling on keyboard, percussion, guitars and elec-

Community band plans spring concert

The Park Rapids Area Community Band is preparing for a Spring Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 30 at the Park Rapids High School Auditorium.

The concert will highlight various genres of music. “Integrity Fanfare and March” by Julie Giroux is slated to be the opening piece. The native of Massachusetts has become one of the most influential American composers for wind ensembles and symphonic bands. “Integrity Fanfare and March” was originally composed for The United States Air Force Band of Washington, D.C.

“Puszta,” by Belgian composer Jan Van der Roost, is a collection of four Romani dances. It displays sounds of darkness and light with an eastern European flare.

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Copper Street Brass presents a variety of music in bold innovative ways with a friendly and charming stage presence. “That ’70s Show” cleverly features music from the 1770s, 1870s and 1970s from classical and opera, jazz and folk to rock and disco.

All shows are held in the Park Rapids Area High School Auditorium at 7 p.m. Single concert tickets are available at the door. For more information visit www.heartlandconcertassociation.org.

Other pieces on the program will include “Chorale Prelude on God of Our Fathers” by Claude T. Smith, “The Girl I Left Behind Me” by Leroy Anderson, and “On the Mall” by Edwin Franko Goldman.

“On the Mall” will enlist the audience’s singing and whistling skills, as it was perhaps Goldman’s most requested march. This concert will be no exception in that it will conclude with Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever,” the national march of the United States.

The Park Rapids Area Community Band has been rehearsing and performing for local and regional audiences since 1991.

The band began with Solon Green