2008 Summer Music Festival
August 2, 2008: Simply Sinatra at Lions Pavilion Park, New Buffalo, Michigan, USA
The Park is situated on the shores of Lake Michigan, in Michigan State only one mile north of Indiana.
Lori's Mother called the other evening and invited us to an Outdoor Concert. She is a Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra Volonteer and we had free entrence to the Consert.
The evenings program was "Simply Sinatra" with Guest Artist Steve Lippia. His voice "happens" to be very alike Frank Sinatra's. And he performed very well. Interesting about him, is that he did not start a professional song carreer until well established with several other businesses. But during a spare time performance with a big band (Jazz) in Florida, he was "discovered", and that's it.
He is now established among USA's finest interpreters of "Standards" and traditional pop music.
The Program opened with: The Lady Is A Tramp. Very well performed. Nineteen songs all in all.
Some of them with the Brassband section of the Orchestra only. Excellent performed and extremely swinging. The Orchestra's Music Director, Robin Fountain, is here seen to the left.
The Sound Mixer.
Audience.
More Audience
Lori and Mats enjoying the Concert
During the second part of the program Steve Lippia asked the audience to watch the Sunset. We did.
The last song was "New York, New York" - and people danced on the Lawn.
It was a great event on a beautiful summer evening - we agreed upon on our way home.
Thanks to Gail that invited us. She also offered me Pop Corn and a large glass of White Wine and a Chair to sit on.
More to come...
Todays Gardening: Palm Sunday here
The Park is situated on the shores of Lake Michigan, in Michigan State only one mile north of Indiana.
Lori's Mother called the other evening and invited us to an Outdoor Concert. She is a Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra Volonteer and we had free entrence to the Consert.
The evenings program was "Simply Sinatra" with Guest Artist Steve Lippia. His voice "happens" to be very alike Frank Sinatra's. And he performed very well. Interesting about him, is that he did not start a professional song carreer until well established with several other businesses. But during a spare time performance with a big band (Jazz) in Florida, he was "discovered", and that's it.
He is now established among USA's finest interpreters of "Standards" and traditional pop music.
The Program opened with: The Lady Is A Tramp. Very well performed. Nineteen songs all in all.
Some of them with the Brassband section of the Orchestra only. Excellent performed and extremely swinging. The Orchestra's Music Director, Robin Fountain, is here seen to the left.
The Sound Mixer.
Audience.
More Audience
Lori and Mats enjoying the Concert
During the second part of the program Steve Lippia asked the audience to watch the Sunset. We did.
The last song was "New York, New York" - and people danced on the Lawn.
It was a great event on a beautiful summer evening - we agreed upon on our way home.
Thanks to Gail that invited us. She also offered me Pop Corn and a large glass of White Wine and a Chair to sit on.
More to come...
Todays Gardening: Palm Sunday here
Labels: concert, michigan, sinatra, Summer, symphony orchestra, travel usa
posted by TorAa at
8/03/2008 11:01:00 pm
13 Comments:
Simply Sinatra sound simply wonderful....it looks like great fun and very relaxing Tor. Love music festivals though I haven't been to one in quite a while. Enjoy!!
Hey what a wonderful day Toraa :D
Wonderful, Tor! glad to know you are having such a fine time in the US!
That sounds like such a good time. Glad you enjoyed it.
it sounds like you are having a fun visit. i like the plants you found too. :)
That reminds me the concerts around the capitol in Madison with my aunt. Oh my what I loved the lake Michigan, Madison is also located there. I have been there so often and on the very northern side too.
Hope you find the kitties !!
Looks like a wonderful time and a great way to relax. I happen to love Frank Sinatra's songs, so I would have been like a fish in water in that group!!
How wonderful. Looks like you all had a great time and getting comp tickets are even better. Have a great day Tor. Big hug. :)
Took some time to catch up with your blog.
I love how you bought the beautiful plants for the kids garden! Lovely.
Looks like you are having a wonderful time.
And yes, T, I have also that "those kind" of problems in India...I think Indian people are so used to tourists looking for a bathroom that they just have a laugh about it!
My Dad would've LOVED this!!!
That last picture is awesome :-)
I like to go to outdoor concerts in the summer... so many of them around this area. Glad you enjoyed it... and the popcorn and the white wine too.
What a blast of a concert it must have been and you've captured it sooooo well. The sunset look beautiful.
Btw: What a coincidence: I've tagged you on a post from a concert we attended together in Sweden this summer too :-)
It sounds like you are having a fantastic visit. What a gorgeous sunset!
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