Highline Community Symphonic Band’s BAND FEST is coming to the Highline Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27.

BAND FEST will include performances by the Mt. Rainier High School Wind Ensemble, Kennedy High School Band, and Highline Community Symphonic Band.

The Mt. Rainier High School Wind Ensemble is their top performing ensemble. It is an audition group and plays challenging music for high school. Kennedy High School Band has won numerous accolades for their marching, jazz, and concert bands.

Highline Community Symphonic Band (HCSB), celebrating its 40th concert season, is dedicated to providing classical band music for the enjoyment and cultural enrichment of communities in and around the Highline area of South King County. HCSB performs quality concerts in a traditional venue without cost to the general public, while nurturing individual talents and continuously improving the skills of all HCSB members.

Established in 1971, HCSB provides a venue for local amateur musicians, post high school to senior citizens, to continue or return to the enjoyment and challenge of playing a wide range of concert band music. The band also provides an opportunity for selected high school instrumental students to expand their musical education by participating in a quality community symphonic band.

Highline Community Symphonic Band is supported, in part, by donations from the City of Burien Arts Commission, 4Culture, and Tukwila Parks Commission. More info at www.highlineband.org.

The Highline Performing Arts Center is located at 401 S. 152nd Street, next to Highline High School.

Here’s a video of the HCSB performing “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” in 2011 :

Click here to view the embedded video.

Burien Arts’ Fourth Annual Classic Jazz Festival will be held on Saturday, March 10th from 3 p.m. – 10 p.m., and will offer a Big Program at its new location, The Landmark Event Center in Des Moines.

There will be more music with 11 bands participating in two music venues, and more styles of music including Straight Ahead Jazz classics, early and mid-20th century jazz styles, from Dixieland, Gypsy Jazz and Western Swing to Big Band Swing.

This great jazz experience will include Concerts, Dancing, Food and Drink, as well as Jam Sessions!

The bands include:

• Del Rey & Matt Weiner
• Echoes of Harlem Orchestra
• Gail Pettis
• Glenn Crytzer & His Syncopators
• Holotradband
• The Jangles
• Jennifer Scott Trio
• Mount Rainier High School Jazz Band
• Pearl Django
• Susan Pascal with Greta Matassa
• Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band

The two music venues allow for more concerts. Comfortable close-up seating in the Auditorium will keep these concerts intimate. There will be dancing in the Banquet Hall, and the elegant living room will be the site for jam sessions.

A full dinner will be provided by EJ’s Catering and there will be a no-host bar.

“Jazz lovers will have a lot to like about the new and improved festival,” said Festival Director Lance Haslund.

Tickets are $35 for adults, $30 for seniors and military, and FREE for youth 18 and under.

Tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets or by calling Burien Arts at 206-244-7808. They will also be available at the Highline Jazz Festival Booth at the annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival, sponsored by the Des Moines Rotary and held in the Landmark Event Center March 2-4, 2012 and at the door the day of the event.

Reduced admission is offered with the donation of a band instrument to Music4Life, a community service activity of Highline Rotary clubs providing musical instruments and other resources needed to expand elementary school music programs.

For $100.00 individual sponsors will receive two adult tickets, reserved seating and reserved or valet parking, two drink tickets, access to the band hospitality room, and more.

The fourth annual Festival is presented by Burien Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing affordable access to visual and performing arts in the Burien/Highline area, and by Landmark Event Center, a 1926 historic building overlooking Puget Sound.  It is sponsored by Cedarbrook Lodge & Copperleaf Restaurant, 4Culture, SoKing Internet Radio, Alaska Airlines, and the City of Burien, Parks, Recreation and Culture.

The Landmark Event Center is located at 23660 Marine View Drive South, Des Moines, WA 98198.

This concert is part of the orchestra’s ’25X125- 25th Anniversary Season X 125 Northwest works performed,’ and will feature Broadway Musical hits and songs with guest soprano soloist Alexandra Picard.

Ticket prices range from $10 – $14. Here are the details:

WHAT: Northwest Symphony Orchestra’s Valentine’s Concert

Alexandra Picard

WHEN: Friday, February 10, 2012 at 7:30pm

WHERE: Highline Performing Arts Center, located at 401 So. 152nd Street, next to Highline High.

INFO: Here’s the lineup:

• Celebration – Stafford Miller (World Premiere)
• Summertime – George Gershwin
• You’ll Never Walk Alone– Richard Rodgers
• Edelweiss- Richard Rodgers
• Morgen- Richard Strauss
• Songs My Mother Taught Me – Antonin Dvorak
• Four pieces with soprano soloist Alexandra Picard
• Suite for String Orchestra- Peter Seibert (World Premiere)
• Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 – Maurice Ravel

TICKETS: Individual tickets may be purchased online here, or at the concert venue box office or ticket desk 45 minutes prior. Please note that only cash or checks may be accepted.

Northwest Symphony Orchestra makes complimentary tickets available to local school music programs. Teachers may call the orchestra office at (206) 242-6321.

• Adult – $14
• Senior (Over 60) – $10
• Student – $10
• Group Rate – $10 per person for 10 or more

ABOUT NORTHWEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Now in its 25th season, the NWSO will perform 10 works by local northwest composers during the season – 7 are world premieres.

The unprecedented milestone of performing 125 works by local northwest composers in 25 years has garnered not only local, but nation and international attention. As such, the NWSO has received seven national awards for Programming of Contemporary Music from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, including a first place national award in 2007. The orchestra has been featured repeatedly on National Public Radio and has recorded four compact disks. Dr. Anthony Spain is Music Director.

The NWSO has performed with a variety and eclectic mix of internationally known artists including Alice In Chains, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Joshua Roman and Natalie Cole.

More information about Northwest Symphony Orchestra is available at www.northwestsymphonyorchestra.org or by calling (206) 242-6321.

The Des Moines Rotary Club will be presenting the 8th annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival from March 2-4, once again in the historic and grand Landmark Event Center in Des Moines.

Guests will enjoy live music and great food while tasting wines from 20 Northwest wineries.

The festival kicks off on Friday, March 2 at 5:00 p.m. The fun continues on Saturday and Sunday, with more wine tasting, food, and live music.

Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at Corky Cellars in Des Moines (206-824-9462) or at www.dmrotary.org.

All proceeds fund the service projects of the Des Moines Rotary Club, including college scholarships, grants to local schools, safety and recreation programs for children, yard projects for elderly residents, support for the local food bank and the homeless, and projects to assist needy people as far away as South Africa and the Philippines.

HOURS:

• Friday: 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
• Saturday: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
• ?Sunday: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

MUSIC:

• Uncle Ernie – Friday, 6:30-9:30
• All Stars No Stripes – Saturday, 3:30-6:30
• Ambience – Sunday, noon-2:00
• Stephanie Porter – Sunday, 2:30-4:30

For more information, please visit www.dmrotary.org.

Here’s our breakdown of this weekend’s B-Town area Haps:

FRIDAY, DEC. 2:

KidSounds, YouthSounds and TeenSounds annual holiday celebration ‘A Glad Noel’ will be held at the Highline Performing Arts Center on Friday, Dec. 9th starting at 7 p.m.

“Light the Lights! Hang the Garlands! Get ready for a festive evening of holiday music as KidSounds, YouthSounds and TeenSounds bring their annual celebration to the Highline Performing Arts Center,” reads an announcement.

Ticket info, including online purchasing, can be found here.

Here’s more from their website:

You are in for a treat as our newest chorus, SilverSounds Northwest, makes a special guest appearance in the program, singing Down, Down the Chimney Tonight, and joining our young singers for a special song. The program will be filled with traditional songs of the season as well as modern Christmas favorites, and the second half of the program will feature holiday songs from cultures around the world, including Ala Nanita, African Noel and Calypso Lullaby.

Bright costuming and creative choreography will highlight the show and add joy, fun and the Spirit of Christmas for audiences of all ages.

Take advantage of our FREE Youth Ticket Program and bring the entire family out for this charming evening of your favorite Christmas music.

One Burien’s favorite Holiday family traditions continues as ChoralSounds presents its Christmas concert at the Highline Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Dec. 10th at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 11th at 2 p.m.

“Audiences will be impressed at the renewed focus on polished choral performance under new Artistic Director Brian J. Winnie, and for his first concert with CSN he has created a show that tells the story of the Nativity through a modern allegory that is both creative and beautiful,” reads their website.

For information on tickets (including online purchasing), click here.

Here’s more from their website:

Centered around the story of a couple’s journey from their first date through the birth of their child, Angels Watching combines vignettes, videography and contemporary dance to weave this story that is at once secular and sacred.

In the second act, the chorus will let down their hair to celebrate the season with familiar and fun Christmas favorites including Jingle Bells, Silent Night and Betelehemu and will bring down the house with a crazy, fun-filled Twelve Pains of Christmas.

With our FREE youth ticket program, CSN concerts are an affordable and fun night out for the entire family, right here at home in Burien.

Bring the entire family to the Highline Performing Arts Center and start your new Holiday family tradition!

The Burien/White Center Rotary Club will be presenting a concert by the Boeing Employees Choir starting at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2 at the Highline Performing Arts Center.

This concert will include a special appearance by the Sylvester Middle School Band, which begins at 7:25 p.m.

This event will serve as a fundraiser for Highline Music4Life, which helps local schools obtain musical instruments.

Ticket cost:  Donations

“Attendees are encouraged to donate musical instruments and/or donate funds to this new program to give an opportunity for many additional students to participate in musical instruction in Highline Schools,” reads a flier.

The Highline Performing Arts Center is located at 401 South 152nd Street (next to Highline High School).

More info on the Burien/White Center Rotary Blub here.

It will be an ’80s Invasion’ at a benefit show for Burien non-profit New Futures at The Triple Door on Wednesday, Dec. 7th starting at 7:30 p.m.

This is an All Ages event that will feature the band ’80s Invasion.’ While we haven’t seen them live yet, judging from their videos below this looks like a great band (of course we’re huge fans of 80s music…).

“What a great excuse to get yourself down to The Triple Door this holiday season – a benefit show for New Futures!” reads a press release. “Enjoy the classic ambiance of the downtown Seattle venue and rediscover the best 80s tunes with cover band, 80s Invasion!”

Tickets are $15 in advance (buy them online here), doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Here are the details:

WHAT: New Futures Benefit Show featuring ’80s Invasion’

WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 7th at 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: The Triple Door, located at 216 Union Street, Seattle, WA 98101.

TICKETS: $15 available online here, over the phone, or at the box office.

INFO: Questions about the concert, call 206.838.4333.

Questions about New Futures: info@newfutures.org or call 206.248.9647.

A BENEFIT FOR NEW FUTURES WITH 80’S INVASION

http://www.newfutures.org/

Please come and support this incredible non-profit that serves children in the most low-income neighborhoods in Seatac and Burien.

Their Mission:
New Futures partners with families in their communities and with educators to ensure that children succeed in school and in life.

Our integrated, culturally relevant programs in low-income apartment complexes build skills, foster connectedness, and promote strengths

More info about the show:

$15
Wednesday, December 07
7:30 PM (All ages)
Doors open at 6:00 PM

Triple Door
216 Union Street
Seattle, WA 98101
Tickets 206.838.4333

VIDEOS OF ’80s’ Invasion’:

You Spin Me Right Round:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Be Near Me:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Let’s Dance:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Don’t Stop Believing:

Click here to view the embedded video.

*We invite children to come dressed in their favorite family friendly costume,” reads an email.

The show will include:

• Fanfare for the Common Man – Aaron Copland
• Halloween March – Matthew James Briggs
• World Premiere:
• Creatures of Prometheus Overture – Ludwig van Beethoven
• Arc, Infusion, Vapor, Texture–- Phillip Petersen?Holberg Suite –- Edvard Grieg? Two pieces with Karin Stevens Dance
• Orpheus in the Underworld Overture – Jacques Offenbach

Tickets will be available at the door, which opens at 7 p.m. Northwest Symphony Orchestra also makes complimentary tickets available to local school music programs – Teachers may call the orchestra office at (206) 242-6321.

The NWSO will perform 10 works by local northwest composers during the 2011 – 2012 season, seven of which are world premieres.

This unprecedented milestone of performing 125 works by local northwest composers in 25 years has garnered not only local, but national and international attention.

Other concerts coming up include:

• Children’s Hospital Benefit Concert
  Friday, November 4, 2011 at 8:00pm?Benaroya Hall
  World Premiere- Mateo Messina
• Valentine’s Concert
  Friday, February 10, 2012 at 7:30pm
  Highline Performing Arts Center
• Spotlight on the Orchestra
  Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 8pm
  Holy Rosary Catholic Church, West Seattle
• 25×125 – 25th Anniversary Concert
  Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 8pm
  Highline Performing Arts Center

ABOUT NORTHWEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Now in its twenty-fifth season, Northwest Symphony Orchestra has performed to local, regional, and national acclaim. The orchestra has performed an unprecedented number of compositions of Northwest composers and has garnered seven national awards for Programming of Contemporary Music from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, including a first place national award in 2007. The orchestra has been featured repeatedly on National Public Radio and has recorded four compact disks. Dr. Anthony Spain is Music Director.

The NWSO has performed with a variety and eclectic mix of internationally known artists including Alice In Chains, Anne and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Joshua Roman and Natalie Cole.

More information about Northwest Symphony Orchestra is available on the Web at www.northwestsymphonyorchestra.org or by calling (206) 242-6321.