Free to the public, the musicians of the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band and the Bescoby Family will present Hot Summer Nights on Monday June 17, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held at Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium located on the campus of Chaffey High School at 1245 North Euclid Avenue in Ontario.
The Woodwind Celebration Ensemble will present a pre-concert recital in the auditorium lobby at 7:00 p.m.
Highlighting the June concert will be guest vocal soloists Jana “Gigi” Garner and Brian Detwiler, along with trumpet soloist Steve Collins and the student dance troupe from the Inland Pacific Ballet.
Garner, a former voice-over artist and radio announcer and co-founder of the T Street Band, she will sing 99 Red Balloons, Down Under, Pride, and Wind Beneath My Wings.
Detwiler will sing the Gershwin Brothers 1930 song Embraceable You and Goin’ Out of My Head, a hit song recorded by Little Anthony and the Imperials in 1964.
Collins will be featured on flugelhorn in a ballad composed by Show Band Director Gabe Petrocelli entitled Your Smile.
Dancers from the Inland Pacific Ballet, which under the leadership of executive and artistic director Zaylin Cano is committed to the nurturing of new talent and providing an essential training ground for serious young dancers, will be featured in Be Our Guest, Pure Imagination, and Arabian Nights.
The musicians of the Show Band will perform two concert selections entitled Candide Suite, Movement 2 and A Day In Branch Brook Park, to be narrated by Chaffey Adult School Assistant Superintendent Dr. Kern Oduro and Pastor Gary Keith.