The Chatfield Brass Band invites you to join them on Sunday, December 11 at 1:30 p.m. in the newly renovated Potter Auditorium for an afternoon of festive music and entertainment. Special guests will be the popular Rhubarb Sisters and the Burdock Brothers, with Robyn Loewen as accompanist. The 40 member Brass Band, conducted by Carmen Narveson, will perform a variety of holiday music including “Holiday Emblem March”, “Rudolph’s Christmas”, “Winter Wonderland”, a jazzy version of “God Rest, Ye Merry Gentlemen”, “Prokofiev’s Troika”, and “Cornet Carillon”, featuring a cornet quartet with Jerry Barrett, Maynard Thompson, Curt Peterson and Beth Vitse. The Rhubarb Sisters will perform beautiful 4-part a cappella harmonies in “Ding Dong Merrily on High” and “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” and will be joined by the Burdock Brothers to perform a variety of holiday music, including favorites “Born, Born in Bethlehem” and “Jingle Bells”. Vocalists in the groups are: Elizabeth Fuglestad, Peggy Hanson, Beth Hennessy, Julie Kiehne, Tim Kiehne, Dave Ruen, and Peter Torkelson.
The concert finale will feature both instrumentalists and vocalists in a special version of We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
Admission is free and kids will receive a special gift. A light reception will follow the concert.
The concert is held in conjunction with Help Our Neighbor’s “Wreaths of Joy” fundraiser in the Legion Room of the Chatfield Center for the Arts from 9 a.m. – 4p.m. Wreaths will be displayed for a silent auction and refreshments will be served.