Lehighton Band to hold second summer concert at Phifer’s Ice Dam

The Lehighton Band will present its final summer concert on Aug. 15.

Due to the refurbishing of Lehighton’s Upper Park, the venue for the concert has been changed to Phifer’s Ice Dam Band Shell on Main Road in Lehighton.

The time for the concerts has been moved to 7 p.m. due to lack of lighting. Concertgoers are reminded to bring lawn chairs to enjoy the concert.

Since the second concert had been canceled due to rain, this concert will contain many of the numbers that were originally scheduled for that concert.

In the event of rain for this concert, the concert venue will be changed to the Lehighton Boys’ and Girls’ band hall.

The concert will open with Fillmore’s arrangement of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” followed by the band’s opening march, “March of the Belgian Parachutists by Leemans.”

The band will then perform a concert piece called “River of Life” by Steven Reineke.

The band will then perform a 1976 hit from the Ramones titled “Blitzkreig Bop.”

The soloists for the evening’s concert are the mother and daughter duo of Beth Cressley and Laura Reichard, who will perform the duet “The Elephant and the Fly” by Henri Kling.

The next number by the band is titled “The Nineties,” arranged by Paul Murtha, one of today’s most prolific arrangers for band music. This song includes small portions of many popular songs of the 1990s including, “From a Distance,” (“Everything I Do) I Do It For You,” “Gonna Make You Sweat,” “Tears In Heaven,” “A Whole New World,” “Hero,” “Change the World,” “Wannabe,” “Tubthumping,” “Iris,” “My Heart Will Go On,” “Zoot Suit Riot,” “You’ll Be in My Heart,” “Mambo No. 5,” “Smooth,” “Forrest Gump — Main Title,” “Be Our Guest” and “Circle of Life.”

The band will then perform a Karl King march titled “Torch of Liberty,” before moving on to the very poplar patriotic song, “God Bless America.”

Following this song is “Baile De Gaita,” which translates to the bagpipe dance.

The “Nathan Hale Trilogy” is the band’s next selection. This song is also a patriotic number which is in three parts including Intrada, Intermezzo and The Rangers.

Following this song is “Shipping Up to Boston,” an Irish-style song that was made popular by the group Dropkick Murphys.

The band will close with John Philip Sousa’s “The Liberty Bell.”