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  • [FREE EVENT] Loveland Music Boosters host world-renowned trumpet player Brad Goode

    [FREE EVENT] Loveland Music Boosters host world-renowned trumpet player Brad Goode

    Loveland, Ohio – World-renowned trumpet player, composer and educator Brad Goode will perform his music with the Loveland High School Jazz bands on Saturday, May 12. The free concert, held in the Loveland High School auditorium, starts at 7:30 PM and follows two jazz clinics offered by Goode during the day.

    Brad Goode has toured and recorded with the bands of many of jazz music’s great performers, including Von Freeman, Red Rodney, Al Cohn, Ira Sullivan and the Woody Herman Orchestra, to name only a few. He led his own orchestra in Chicago from 1985 until 1998, including a stint as leader of the house band at the famous entertainment venue Green Mill Cocktail Lounge. As cultural ambassador for former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Goode led jazz groups on tours of Asia and the Middle East. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the most influential Chicagoans of the 1980s for being a major catalyst in the revitalization of the Chicago jazz scene.

    For the past 20 years, Goode has primarily performed as a freelance lead trumpeter, working and recording with numerous ensembles. He has served on the faculties of several universities, among them the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. He is currently associate professor of jazz studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

    For more information about the upcoming concert, contact Loveland High School Jazz Band Director Matt Holt at LovelandHighSchoolJazz@gmail.com.

    Listen to Brad Goode’s How deep is the ocean.

  • Loveland Schools Jazz Program Presents the 19th Annual Big Band Concert 

    Loveland Schools Jazz Program Presents the 19th Annual Big Band Concert 

    Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland schools jazz program will hold its 19th annual Big Band Concert and Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser on Saturday, February 17, with performances by the two Loveland High School jazz bands and the Loveland Middle School (LMS) Stage Band.

    “This event has become a tradition in Loveland and is always well attended. We usually serve some 400 meals throughout the evening and expect a large crowd to come just for the great entertainment,” says Susan Sprigg, one of the event organizers.

    A photo of last year’s concert and dinner by Olivia Smith

    The Big Band Concert and Spaghetti Dinner is the primary fundraiser for the Loveland schools jazz program. Proceeds from the event directly fund trips to enhance the music education and experience for the high school jazz students. In addition to numerous excursions across the country over the years, the LHS jazz orchestra has performed on the U.S. Naval aircraft carrier Intrepid twice, has won the North American Music Festival and received honorable placements in other national competitions.

    Photo from last year’s Jazz Band Concert by Olivia Smith

    The annual fundraising event was started in 2000 by then Superintendent Secretary Doris Osborne and Cheryl Maegly, wife of Bruce Maegly who taught music at Loveland Middle School for 35 years and reinstated the high school jazz program in the early 1990s. The high school bands are currently led by Jazz Band Director Matt Holt, and the LMS School Stage Band by Music Teacher Chris Huening. Current and former Loveland jazz band musicians have been selected as all-state musicians, to the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) District 14 Honor Bands, and as recipients of the Maegly Music Scholarship Award. The scholarship program was set up by the Loveland Music Boosters in 2014 to honor Mr. Maegly and his extensive contributions to the development of the music program at Loveland.

    Saturday, February 17

    Location: Loveland High School, 1 Tiger Trail, Loveland, OH 45140

    Date: Saturday, February 17, 2018 (Inclement weather make-up date: Sunday, February 18)

    Time: Dinner seating is staggered (6:00; 6:15 and 6:30 p.m.), followed by performances by the LMS Stage Band (starting at approx. 7:10 p.m.), the Jazz Studies Ensemble (JSE) and the Jazz, Commercial and Contemporary Group (JCC), with the concert ending at about 9:15 p.m. Advance reservations are required for dinner.

    Tickets: Dinner and concert: $13 for ages 10 and up; $7 for children under 10 Concert only: $5 (arrival after 7 p.m.) For more information and to reserve your tickets, email LovelandHighSchoolJazz@gmail.com.

    Loveland Magazine is the Media Sponsor of the Big Band Concert and Spaghetti Dinner.

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