 We didn't know how long the Common Council was going to take this evening, but he did manage to get here. So Mayor Banderstein, would you like to stand up and wait to you all? And on behalf of the Mayor and the Mayor's International Committee, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the UW-Bar City Band Concert. The Mayor's International Committee's mission is to foster the sister city relationships with Esslingen, Germany and Tsubami, Japan, and associated student exchanges throughout the year. We would like to thank our featured sponsor, the Cheboygan Progressive Care Center, along with the following supporting sponsors, the Cheboygan Press, Midwest Communications, WHBL, The Point, and the E93FM. Festival Foods, Johnsonville Sausage, Johnson & Bakery, Trinity Lutheran School and Church, Lakeside Pepsi, Taste Cheboygan. Please also patronize our program book and ad sponsors. It is with their help is our important sponsors to the Mayor's International Committee, and have been able to bring you this enjoyable evening on music and fun. We are proud to welcome the UW-Bar City Band, and just to give you some more information, this band has just returned from the trip to the final four to bring the Badger Spirit Spirit to Arlington, Texas, and support the man's basketball team. We are very proud of the Badger Man's Basketball Team and Coach Bo Ryan, including our local product, Sam Decker, and the job that they've done this past year, reaching a pinnacle in the NCAA, March Madness, a trip to the final four. We now are proud to bring the UW-Bar City Band onto the direction of Mike LaCrone to this stage for your entertainment, and here they are, the UW-Bar City Band. A little detour, so we're glad that for the detour, we're glad to be here. This beautiful theater, we're happy to be here. This is the band, by the way, that represented you at the Capital One Bowl back in January. Final four, some of these guys were there for a while. Well, it should be. This is a great accomplishment he had this year. It was a great accomplishment for the team, and we're so proud. Now, when we were there, we had a chance to hop now with a lot of the other schools, and we got a chance to talk with some of the cheerleaders from Kentucky. We went about what happens academically, but they taught us a new cheer, a new Kentucky cheer, which we picked up. It said, twinkle, twinkle, little star. We're not as dumb as you think we is. We're going to start off with an old tune done by The Who from the Rock Opera Tommy. This is a theme of the Pinball Wizard. Right in the program, we always try to feature our tuba section. Now, we didn't bring them all along tonight. We only brought six of them. Teased them a lot, but they recently told me, Mike, they said, you need to know that for the first semester, the tuba section had a grade point of 3.87. That's not the average. That's the total. Ask at the Spell, Mississippi, and they said, the river or the state. Anyhow, we've played this. We've played this the last three or four weeks in a row. Everywhere we've been, you'll recognize it here in Sheboygan. You can dance and sing along. It's perforably permissible here in the aisles. Here we go. Well, he showed me again and reminded me of 2007. I think that's what he said, and when we were here, we knew a little tune just to get you warmed up. It's called The Hay Song. You know the song where you jump up in holler hay? You know that song? Yes, if you're here. Let's try it. Let her be. Let her be. Why? You understood the instructions. The instructions were to jump up in holler hay. Let's try it for this guy right here. Back and forth with this. A little back and forth movement. And this is rock and roll two. Here we go. And you guys up in the cheap seats, you can do it too. One, two, pop music in. And I particularly like to read about the rock and roll period. And in the early days of rock and roll, you remember the rock and roll period, don't you lady? Backseat in the 56th Chevrolet. Little Richard, Chuck Berry. And then a few years after that happened, a woman named Lily that came along did a tune called The Locomotion, and the door started open for women. Aretha Franklin came along with respected tunes like that. And there were the girl groups that sang the doo-wop. And they had a wonderful songwriter, Nellie Greenwich, who wrote a great motorcycle song called Leader of the Pack. There's another great songwriter named Carol King. So we've put together a medley of songs that salute the women of rock and roll. Let's get on the side of about 50 percent of you. These are the demons of rock. Wisconsin, we go out and we're looking for talent. Always looking for talent at it. And you know what? Every place we've gone in the state, we've found talented people just sitting in the audience. Everywhere we've gone, we've found talented people. Until tonight. I'll tell you what, I'm going to pick a few people. I just want you to go up on stage. Just go up, just go up. I'll be with you in a second. Guy right here. I think that you have to have the right equipment. See, he showed me for it. Caffe is the easiest one of all. I just want you to stand here, Caffe. And shake your maracas. It's to get a number one record. Get the top of the charts. A lot of people do it really easily. You know, people like the Beatles did it effortlessly. Elvis had dozens and dozens of hit records. Elton John, all the people, it looks like they do it quite easily. Then there's another group of people in the entertainment business who try for years. Never make it. They just didn't get the right breaks. One hit wonders. The people who have a hit and they never repeat it. They just had that one hit and they try as they may, they never repeat it. So we've put together a medley of some of those tunes. One hit wonders include people like Wild Cherry who had a funky kind of a tune and never came back from that. Steve Martin, a great comedian, had a one hit wonder. Only one record. Randy Newman, a great songwriter. Had a lot of songs that made the hits, but his singing only made one time. So here's a medley, a tribute to those people who worked very hard but only made it one time. But for many of them that might have been enough. The one hit wonders. The last concert before we go into the Cole Center next week to spend three nights doing our concert. And it's the high point of our year as a band because it gets us a chance to exploit everything about the Cole Center. And it gives us a chance to celebrate 40 years. This is the 40th year we've done the Varsity Band concert. And much of the evening is going to be talking about nostalgia. We've got a lot of people coming back that were part of the band in the old days. And it's a fun time. But I wanted to make it a special celebration. And so happens there's another 50 year celebration going on this year for a group that probably changed the course of popular music more than any other single group. And I speak of the Beatles. The Beatles are celebrating 50 years this year. And I thought it would be only appropriate to on our concert and during our final concert this year to salute the Beatles for their 50 years of entertainment. We haven't quite come up to that 50 year mark yet. But this is a tribute to 50 years of the fabulous four. We have it tonight as music from the big band era, the swing era. And there have been a lot of great bands from that area that I really appreciate, the Benny Goodmans and the Tommy Dorces and Glenn Millers and all that. But the one band that only stands out in my mind is the Duke Ellington's great band. I mean Duke Ellington not only wrote wonderful music but his band played almost any style you could ask. As a part of their show Duke had written a song called along with his troubled player, Juan Paizal. And he featured a great drummer that he had then, guy named Sonny Greer. We don't have Sonny Greer with us tonight. We do have Tommy Johnson though. Tommy's one of our seniors. And we're going to try to recreate a little bit of the style and the mood that Duke Ellington presented when he played and almost every other band in the era eventually had an arrangement of caravan featuring the drummer. This is Duke Ellington's caravan. Bond film is the music, those great themes that they had. They had people like John Berry write the themes. Paul McCartney wrote one of the themes. Carly Simon, Adele. So we've put together a salute to the 50 years of Bond because we haven't gotten there yet. This is our salute to 007. I actually like to take a minute to introduce some of the people who are in the band from the area. The listeners have to. But before I do, I want to take just a minute to pay my respects to Jeff Parks. A long time, he brought his fan club. Jeff, a long time conductor at Cheboyga North and everybody in the state who knows about music knows about his work there and knows what a great job he's done. He's heading towards retirement and everybody from the Wisconsin band and everybody I know in the audience here at Cheboyga wishes you the very best and much success as in your retirement as you've had in your career. Jeff, congratulations and best wishes for your family. Now here's some people from the band. Carl Nimmer is from Plenum. He'd like to say hi to his family and friends. He also has the best grandmother. No, you don't, I do. Trevor Shillers from Howard's Grove right there in the trumpet section. You'd like to say hi to... Okay, Elsa, mom, I need money. Look, he's also from Howard's Grove. Like to say hi to Trevor's... Oh, boss, his dad is the fire chief of Cheboyga. Wanted to say hi. God! I wish he would even sign this out. Prubanda, how'd I do? Prubanda was not from here, but she wanted to say hi to Kate's mom and dad. Plenum would like to say hi to her family. There's Kate right now in the trumpet section. I swear I introduce these two everywhere we go. Adam and Kira Wright, right color from Elkhart Lake, would like to say hi to their mom. Locked back in there someplace. David Harris is not from here. We would like to say hi and thank his family for attending. David, I'm sorry, I said Harris. David Harms. David Harms. You're right, Matt Snick is from Cleveland, would like to say hi to his co-workers. Pacific Native Indians division. Ready, ready, ready. David, I didn't know this. Today is Tommy Johnson's birthday. He once is the hug Mike never gave him as a child. I was a child or but you were a child. Britain is from Cheboyga. He wants to say hi to the gods. We got him from there. He likes to say hi home. Carl Larson is not from Cheboyga, would like to say hi to his aunt Susan also. Big Slice, but you and I understand that, but nobody else does. Mike Cook is from, Michael Cook is from Frandallac. But this is the closest you'll get. Mike loves noob warm walks on Cheboyga's beautiful beaches. Darryl Johnson is from Elkhart Lake. He'd like to say hi to Trevor's parents and Amy's family. Also Trevor's mom. We don't touch the wedding too. Allison Martin is not from here, but would want to apologize for everybody for, I don't understand that at all. For being a ginger boy. Just a bread here, okay. Allison Martin. And the drummers like to say hi to Tommy's mom. Bruce and I like to say hi too. I feel like he's a member of the band because he's been hanging around us for the last three or four weeks. Todd Decker. About the audience, I know some place. Ah, we appreciate what you've done. Saddest thing you've ever asked those guys. This is Todd Decker. I think you're after it. Thanks for being here. Saying, would you like some fifth quarter? And I heard a lot of people say, yeah, yeah, yeah. You just sit there. You don't sit in the fifth quarter. You got to participate. Now, this song has got two parts. One where you lift your arms like this. I said everybody, everybody lift your arm. Part is where the music goes da, da, da, da, da, da, da. And you got to go ready for some fifth quarter. Repeat for this one. We can't do any plays. Hannah, hi, and Dallas. It doesn't matter without doing the chicken dance. Don't you know how to do it here in Chicago? Well, keep it slow. Get your arms up. Here we go. 2007, you know, we set a record then. That record has since been broken. Just yesterday, Green Bay, we did one course of the chicken dance in 24.2 seconds. That's a new record by three tenths of a second. Unfortunately, Fire Chief, Fire Chief called me and said, Mike, don't go for a record. It's an old theater. We have to be worried about the safety of the people in this theater. Please do not go for a record on the chicken dance. So I guess, what can I do? You want me to go against the wishes of the Fire Chief and think about that. Okay, here. Because I'm still selling tickets for next week's performance in the Cole Center. One of the things we like to do when we get in that wonderful facility is to use the possibilities that we can to present a bit of musical theater. I mean, we can use all sorts of devices, all sorts of stage effects, because that house warrants it very much because it makes everything available to us. So we like to do bits of theater. In the past, we've done Lake Mizorab, we've done West Side Story. This year, I wanted to keep it an anniversary theme, and one musical production popped out at me right away. It's the longest-running show in the history of Broadway and this year is celebrating its 25th year on Broadway. Well, 25 consecutive years of doing eight shows a week for the last 25 years. I'm speaking of the wonderful musical production of Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera. Those of you who know The Phantom of the Opera knows it has wonderful music, wonderful effects. The story is of a grotesquely-deformed musician who inhabits the lower regions of the Paris Opera House falls in love with a beautiful soprano, becomes her mentor, leads her to stardom, and then through a series of sometimes very chilling and at the same time very beautiful moments becomes the protagonist against everybody who's trying to keep the Paris Opera House going. We'd like to present just a small portion of what we're planning to do next week. This is Andrew Lloyd Webber's music, The Phantom of the Opera. Every concert for the last 40, always do so as long as I have anything to say about it is a medley of Wisconsin songs. Isn't this a great time to be a badger? You can suit somebody. Maybe back here sometime soon because you're a terrific audience. Thanks particularly to the people here at this beautiful theater who made us feel so welcome. But, you know, we're going to meet you something. Maybe it'll be on the football field next fall. We're going to have a heck of a team, I think, then. For basketball and hockey and, you know, what kind of a basketball team we're going to have next year. Mr. Decker, I'm down on another final four-trip next year, so go to work on Sam. It's a cold center next week when we do our 40th year, or I've been here six times and I one more time like to see everybody in Pasadena. I'm Wisconsin.