The Minot City Band under the direction of Joseph Alme will present the first summer concert of its 100th season as part of festivities held in the Scandinavian Heritage Park located on South Broadway. The concert will be on Friday, June 18, and will begin at 7 p.m.

The concert will showcase music associated with the annual “Midsummer Scandinavian Festival Flag Ceremony” featuring presentation of flags and anthems of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Canada and the United States. The band will then continue with other traditional marches and concert works. The concert is free and open to the public.

On Sunday, June 20, the Minot City Band will present two concerts in the band shell at Oak Park, the first beginning at 4 p.m. and the second performance at 7 p.m.

Both concerts will feature Sheri Lien, bassoon soloist. She will perform “The Old Grumbly Bear” by Julius Fucik. Lien began playing flute and later bassoon with the Minot City Band in 2006. She joined the Minot Symphony Orchestra on bassoon in 2007 and became the principal bassoonist with the Minot Symphony in 2019. She has also played both flute and bassoon in the pit orchestra for the Western Plains Opera Company and in the Minot Community Concert Band. Lien has a passion for chamber music and is a founding member of the SubZero Winds wind quintet which was formed in 2018. Lien has studied bassoon with professor Charlie Young from Minot State University and most recently is studying with bassoonist Ariel Detwiler of Detwiler Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Other works on the program include “March of the Steel Men” by Charles Belsterling featuring the brass section, “Overture for Winds” by Charles Carter, “Kentucky 1800” by Clare Grundman featuring folk tunes of the time, and “American Trilogy” by Jay Chattaway, representing the time around the Civil War. For a change of pace, the band will play “Broadway Showstoppers” arranged by Warren Barker. The arrangement features “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “People,” With a Little Bit of Luck,” “On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever),” “Try to Remember,” and “That’s Entertainment,” followed by the energetic composition “Defying Gravity” by Steven Reineke. The concert will conclude with “Invercargill March” by Alex Lithgow.

The Minot City Band is sponsored by the City of Minot and all concerts are free and open to the public.