Mother Nature sends Charles City Municipal Band indoors again

By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com

For the second concert in a row, threatening weather forced the Charles City Municipal Band to move indoors Sunday evening.

The performance, originally scheduled for its usual venue in Central Park, was relocated to Trinity United Methodist Church, just as the season opener had been two weeks earlier.

Guest conductor Scott Stroud, band director at Nashua-Plainfield Schools, led the group through a varied program that included marches, movie themes and Broadway selections.

The band’s performance included the classic “Canon in D (Famous Canon),” film scores from “Avengers: Endgame” and “Star Wars,” and a medley from “Wicked” featuring songs such as “No One Mourns the Wicked,” “Dancing Through Life,” “Defying Gravity” and “For Good.”

The concert also included “Edelweiss” from “The Sound of Music,” the “Radetzky March,” “Irish Interludes” and closed with “Flying Tigers March.”

Sunday’s Father’s Day concert was also the band’s annual “popcorn concert.” Audience members were still able to stop by the Charles Theatre for free popcorn, sponsored by First Citizens Bank, before the music began.

The band’s next concert is its annual Independence Day patriotic music concert, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 4, behind the Charles City Public Library, preceding the community fireworks show over the Cedar River.