Saturday, March 20: Fund raising dance for Minnesota Foodshare: Taste of
the Nation dance at Minneapolis Convention Center; audience size 250
Saturday, May 15: Confederate
Air Force dance in hangar #3 at Fleming
Field in S. St. Paul, 8:00-midnight, including combined number with Minnesota
Pipes and Drums; audience size 1100
Saturday, September 18: Bomber's Moon Ball sponsored by the Confederate
Air Force, in hangar #3 at Fleming Field in S. St. Paul, 8:00-midnight, including
combined number with Minnesota Pipes and Drums
1993 Roseville Big Band Public Concerts:
Tuesday, March 23: Concert at Edinborough Park
in Edina; audience size 80
Sunday, July 4: Seven Decades of Swing
at Roseville Central Park band shell, corner of Lexington and Co. Rd. C, 7:00
p.m., featuring guest tenor saxophonist Brian
Jacques, followed by the Roseville
Community Band at 8:30 p.m. and fireworks at dusk; live audience size
2500; televised by CTV North Suburbs
Tuesday, July 20: Concert at Ramsey County's Battle Creek Park, featuring
guest clarinetist Melanie
Kleiss; live audience size 100; televised by Meredith Cable, White Bear
Lake
Thursday, July 29: Tribute to the Big Bands
at Roseville Central Park band shell, corner of Lexington and Co. Rd. C, 7:00
p.m.; live audience size 400; televised by CTV North Suburbs
Thursday, November 18: Concert at Concordia
Academy in Roseville, 7:30-8:30 p.m.; sponsored byt the Parks and Recreation
Department and televised by CTV North Suburbs
Tuesday, May 5; 6 performers and 7 observers joined us
Monday, August 9; 17 performers and 4 observers joined us
Other 1993 Roseville Big Band Events:
Saturday, February 20: Entertainment for the Rolling Gophers basketball
game sponsored by Alliant Tech (at Hopkins High School) starting at 6:30; audience size 300; added to song list: In the Mood, She Works Hard for the Money; This Could Be the Start of Something; Stompin' at the Savoy
Sunday, August 22: Jim and Amy Sugimura Wedding Anniversary at the Eden
Prairie Planes of Fame Museum at Flying Cloud Airport; audience size 150
Tuesday, October 26: Joint rehearsal with Inver Hills Community College
Jazz Ensemble (in Roseville)
Sunday, December 19: Entertainment for the opening of the John Rose Oval
in Roseville
Rehearsals were held every Tuesday (September 8, 1992 through June 1, 1993),
then switched to Mondays (June 8 through August 16, 1993) to accomodate the
Roseville Community Band schedule, which switched from Monday rehearsals during
the school year to Tuesdays in the summer.
In November, 1993, Parks and Recreation completed a carpet project at the Roseville
Activity Center, and the Big Band, Community Band, and Ding Dongers each contributed
$200 to the project.
Click here for links to information
about the Roseville Big Band's performances, sit-in nights, and other events
in other years.