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Concerts-in-the-Park Greets a New Decade

Concerts-in-the-parkWelcome to the second decade of the popular Concerts-in-the-Park season. The Belvedere Community Foundation has supported the concert program each year with a grant for its line-up of outstanding musical talent. The Concerts-in-the-Park Co-Chairs are Ginny Doyle and Maureen Johnson. Members of the committee include Anne Butler, Jack Doyle, Nancy Cappelloni, Christina Decker, Tina Dewey, Roger Felton, Nena Hart, Cissy Kirrane, Petey and Jeffery Stein. These 4 pm to 6 pm concerts are for everyone so join the fun to picnic, listen, dance and celebrate the day in Belvedere Park.

SCHEDULE 2008 

June 22 - FISHTANK ENSEMBLE
Rompin’, stompin’, Romanian and Swedish folk music, flamenco, Klezmer and Gypsy jazz

July 13 - LIAM TIERNAN
Belfast’s finest tenor with songs of the sea, revolution , drink and emigration…and of course songs of love

August 3 - JOHN C. HANDY & FRIENDS
Always inventive, John Handy with his soulful and fiery saxophone personifies the jazz genre with great dignity

August 31, Labor Day Weekend - JIM SALESTROM
A Rocky Mountain High with Colorado’s Jim Salestrom. Come sing along, dance and celebrate the U.S. of A. in the country music style of John Denver

Fun at Concerts-in-the-parkIn 1998 a group of Belvedere volunteers organized a Concerts-in-the-Park committee and a tradition was born. They produced the first annual summer series in the Community Park Gazebo. Over the past ten years a variety of music has been included (in order of appearance): Corte Madera Town Band, Lisa Mooyman, The Heartbeats, The Bavarian Band, Disorderly Conduct, Peter Allen Jazz Band, Gator Beat, Rex Allen Swing Band, The Rhythmix, The Oliver Hunt Quartet, Santa Rosa Symphony Chamber, Red Garter Band, Early Morning Brass, Adler Fellows, Pride and Joy, Doug Adams and Bravo, Ballet Folklorico, Cosmo, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, Joni Morris and the After Midnight Band, Flamenco Indian Dance, Ricardo Scales, Melody of China, Dance Kaiso, William Florian Quartet, Griffin Stoller, Unauthorized Rolling Stones and Big Bang Beat.