This Friday night concludes our 2012 Summer Music in Fountain Park, sponsored by The Van Wert County Foundation.\u00a0 And as we did last year, we are going out in grand fashion!<\/p>\n
We start with music from one of the most popular rock\/jazz bands of all-time- Chicago.\u00a0 Brass Transit is a tribute band that so accurately recreates the top hits of this superstar band that you may think they have appeared in Fountain Park.<\/p>\n
Dennis Gomes, owner\/CEO of Resorts Casino in Atlantic City, says of Brass Transit: \u201cTruly amazing, outstanding musicianship!\u00a0 One of the best shows I have seen in a very long time!\u201d\u00a0 And six-time Grammy Award-winning record producer Joe Donofrio says: \u201cThis is not just a tribute band, it is THE Chicago experience!\u201d<\/p>\n
Complete with keyboard, vocals, drums, bass, guitar, and a dynamic, virtuosic horn line of sax, trumpet and trombone, Brass Transit may just be the hit of the summer, although there have been many.<\/p>\n
In case you have managed to skip the past 40 years of (what I call) sophisticated popular music, songs you may expect to hear will be: \u201c25 or 6 to 4\u201d, \u201cSaturday in the Park\u201d, \u201cDoes Anybody Really Know what Time it Is?\u201d, \u201cFeelin\u2019 Stronger Every Day\u201d, and so much more!\u00a0 Chicago has always been one of my favorite bands because of their music, and I look for Brass Transit to deliver a great concert as we conclude 2012 in Fountain Park for the summer.<\/p>\n
The concert starts at our traditional Fountain Park time of 7 p.m.\u00a0 So bring your lawn chairs and blankets, or just mull around the park and take in some of the sounds of the summer with all the great Chicago hits.<\/p>\n
Immediately following the concert, a huge inflatable screen will once again be blown up and we will be showing the blockbuster Pixar\/Disney movie, Toy Story 3<\/em>.\u00a0 Released in the summer of 2010, it became the highest grossing film of that entire year.\u00a0Woody, Buzz Lightyear and their friends will come to life on the big screen and the action will be exhilarating with our dynamic sound system and huge outdoor screen.\u00a0 Although it is easy to think of this 3-D animated film as a kid\u2019s movie (and it is!), so many of the references and toys which come to life in this movie relate to those of us baby boomers show played with them and our parents who bought them for us.\u00a0 So really, it hits home to all generations!<\/p>\n We will start the movie right after the concert and immediately following a four minute preview of the 2012-13 Niswonger PAC season.\u00a0\u00a0 Popcorn and refreshments will be available throughout the movie as we make this Friday one of the most enjoyable nights of the summer!<\/p>\n We have all enjoyed the beauty of Fountain Park again this summer and I want to thank and congratulate the members of the Evergreen Garden Club for their fine volunteer work once again.\u00a0 According to co-chair Diane Ryan; 60 geraniums were planted at the flag pole, 18 hanging planters hung, annuals were planted around the gazebo and four large planters were planted on the stage area.\u00a0 They were able to do all this work because of a generous donation from the Dayton Foundation in memory of past member, Joan Jones.\u00a0 Mrs. Jones would be pleased of her daughter Dian Ryan\u2019s participation and the beauty of the park.\u00a0 For nine years, these volunteer members have been beautifying Fountain Park and I just thought you should know about it!<\/p>\n And now just hot off the press, the Van Wert Rotary Club voted to use proceeds from this year\u2019s auction to provide more enhancements to Fountain Park.\u00a0 So get ready for some new additions to the park next year.\u00a0 Thanks (again) Rotary!<\/p>\n You might want to come a little early Friday night as Phi Beta Psi will be serving up some delicious food before and during the concert.\u00a0You will also notice some vendors selling garage sale items.\u00a0They will be located on Jefferson Street actually beginning Thursday, and continuing Friday and Saturday.\u00a0If you want some real bargains and didn\u2019t get your fill of last weekend\u2019s Highway 127 Yard Sale, then you might want to check them out.\u00a0This is sponsored by the Main Street Van Wert organization.<\/p>\n Whew!\u00a0 I guess you can learn a lot reading this column.\u00a0 You better tell your friends to read \u201cMusic in Van Wert\u201d to find out what\u2019s going on around this town!\u00a0 See you Friday night.<\/p>\n FIN\u00c9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Friday night concludes our 2012 Summer Music in Fountain Park, sponsored by The Van Wert County Foundation.\u00a0 And as we did last year, we are going out in grand fashion! We start with music from one of the most popular rock\/jazz bands of all-time- Chicago.\u00a0 Brass Transit is a tribute band that so accurately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 13:03:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}