NORFOLK, Neb. -- The music department at Northeast Community College will continue its concert series with a Pop Concert next weekend.
The concert, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 2 p.m., in the Cox Activities Center Theatre on the Norfolk campus.
The Northeast Singers Express, an audition swing choir that performs on campus and selected locations during the academic year, will perform a variety of numbers from the Big Band era. They range from “Sing, Sing, Sing” to more current musicals from Broadway, including “Defying Gravity” from “Wicked.”
Margaret Schultz, music instructor and choral activities director, is the director of the Northeast Singers Express.
The Northeast Jazz Machine is an audition jazz band that performs at Northeast basketball games, and performs at Northeast Community College concerts. The Northeast Area Jazz Ensemble (NAJE), incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1980, is a group of local musicians who come together to keep jazz and big band music alive.
NAJE is a registered non-profit that performs for donations around the area and then turns those donations into scholarship opportunities. It will perform jazz and pop standards from over the past 50-years at the concert. Kevin McLouth, instrumental music instructor/director of instrumental activities, is the director of the Northeast Jazz Machine and NAJE.
All three groups will perform a variety of pop songs and jazz styles, including Van Morrison’s “Wild Night” and the swinging “Martini Mama.”
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Kevin McLouth, instrumental music instructor/director of instrumental activities, is the director of the Northeast Jazz Machine and NAJE that will perform on Sunday, Nov. 3, at the Cox Activities Center Theatre. (Northeast Community College)
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