An Evening Of Music

At NHS

To help raise money for a new sound system at Newtown High School, The Berkshire Big Band and The Dartmouth Cords will be performing at the high school on Friday, November 2. The concert will begin at 7:30 pm.

The Berkshire Big Band is a 17-piece band that has been playing throughout Fairfield County and the surrounding area for many years under the direction of Chip Zellner. The group performs a wide variety of music for listening and dancing and has regularly performed for area school jazz symposiums, as the featured band at Wilton, Norwalk and Weston jazz festivals, for Connecticut Special Olympics, and appears regularly in the summer concert series in Newtown and Danbury.

The Dartmouth Chords is recognized as one of the country’s best a cappella performing groups, combining sweet sounds, smooth moves, and hilarious skits to produce action-packed shows that have won the group acclaim since its founding in 1995. Off-campus, the group has toured extensively on college campuses and for alumni clubs and high schools from Hanover, N.H., to Virginia Beach, Va.

The November 2 show in Newtown will be especially meaningful for the Chords in that member Ryan Braun is a Newtown High School Class of 2000 graduate. Mr Braun offers his baritone voice to the group’s contemporary ballads.

For advance tickets call Dr Henry Gellert’s office at 426-5900 or Dr Kevin Braun’s office at 426-9692. Tickets can also be purchased at the door for $10.