The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will again be selling homemade ice cream and fresh-baked cake before the concert, starting around 6:30 p.m. Persons attending these concerts are reminded to bring along their own lawn chairs or blanket. No seating is provided.

Conductor of the Karl L. King Municipal Band is Jerrold P. Jimmerson, with Paul Bloomquist as the announcer. “This concert will commemorate several musical milestones in America’s history,” commented conductor Jimmerson, with music from the Revolutionary War time to today.

The concert features patriotic selections to celebrate the Flag Day observance on June 14. Marches on the evening program include “Loyal Americans” by Karl L. King, and “National Emblem” by E.E. Bagley.

Many selections will provide a slice of pure Americana, with a variety of patriotic and folk songs on the program to salute our American flag. The King Band will perform a medley of well-known standards with “An American Celebration,” which includes “You’re a Grand Old Flag” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Also on the program is a collection of popular songs titled “Homefront: Musical Memories of World War II,” which audience members are certain to recognize and remember.

Special guest conductor for this concert will be Paul Bloomquist, director of bands at Iowa Central Community College and a long-time King Band member, who will fill in for Dan Cassady this week. He has chosen “Concord” by Clare Grundman as one of his selections. This medley is based on three traditional tunes from old New England — “The White Cockade,” William Billings’ “America,” and “Yankee Doodle.”

For his second selection, Bloomquist has chosen his father’s march, “The Spinning Baton.” The march was originally written by Marlan Bloomquist for national champion baton twirler Joyce Rice, a Greenfield, Iowa, native. At age 17, Rice was judged the best baton twirler in the world, defeating some 20,000 other young women. She went on to Iowa State University, where she was the featured twirler with the Marching Band. At this Sunday’s concert, this march will feature an area baton twirler, Hannah Jenson, from Algona.

Featured vocalist Roger Netz, from Manson, will perform another of America’s favorites, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” The band will also perform popular American composer Leroy Anderson’s “The Phantom Regiment.” Scott Johnston, Fort Dodge, will narrate a moving tribute to the American flag while the band performs James Swearingen’s “Lest We Forget.”

The concert will close with the playing of songs from all five branches of military service in the “Armed Forces Salute,” followed by Karl King’s exciting galop, “Majestic,” and John Phillip Sousa’s immortal march, “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” along with our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Persons attending this Sunday’s concert are encouraged to bring small American flags to wave at appropriate times during the concert. “There will be plenty of opportunities to proudly wave the red, white, and blue during this hour-long concert,” states conductor Jimmerson.