On Sunday evening, the weekly concert by the Karl L. King Municipal Band will feature a salute to the Apollo 11 moon landing on the same July 20 date in 1969. Conductor Dan Cassady and announcer Paul Bloomquist will lead the band in an hourlong sampling of music that is “out of this world!” Concert time is 7:30 p.m. at the Karl L. King Band Shell in Oleson Park.

Ice cream and other goodies will be available from the Southeast Valley Music Boosters for a freewill donation before the concert starts. These summer concerts are provided, free of charge, by the City of Fort Dodge for everyone’s listening pleasure. Persons are reminded to bring their own lawn chairs, since no seating is provided.

March music is always on the program, and this week will include “Semper Fidelis” by John Philip Sousa, “March Francaise: Father of Victory” by Louis Ganne, and E.E. Bagley’s well-known composition, “National Emblem.”

The evening’s overture will be Karl King’s “The Altar of Genius,” published in 1916 during King’s third and final season as Conductor of the famous Sells-Floto Circus/Buffalo Bill Wild West Show Band. In addition, the band will feature one of Karl King’s beautiful serenades, “A Moonlight Melody,” one of King’s earliest aerial waltzes with “Moonlight on the Nile,” and King’s exciting circus galop, “Emporia.”

Guest soloist for the evening is Nikole Nuttall on clarinet. Nuttall is a native of Omaha, Nebraska, and a graduate of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion with a bachelor’s degree in music education and music performance with an emphasis on clarinet. She just completed her 14th year as the middle school band director at the Alta-Aurelia Schools. Nuttall is principal clarinet with the Fort Dodge Area Symphony as well as the Karl King Band. She will perform the classic clarinet solo, “Immer Kleiner (Always Smaller),” a humorous fantasy by Adolf Schreiner. She will then join the rest of the Clarinet section to perform the popular “Clarinet Polka.”

On the lighter side will be a medley of Frank Sinatra’s many hit songs, simply titled “Sinatra!” This medley will provide just four of his many popular tunes: “Come Fly With Me” from 1958, “Witchcraft” from 1957, “That’s Life” from 1966, and finally “Fly Me to the Moon” from Sinatra’s 1964 recording. This last song was played on the Apollo 10 mission as it orbited the moon and again, on Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s cassette tape player (remember those) after he stepped onto the moon.

In case of inclement weather, this concert may be cancelled at the starting time. Any announcements will be made on the band’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/karlkingband/. Plan to be in attendance each Sunday evening to hear the finest in band music as played by your local municipal band.