UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Bandstand Summer Concert Series
Free concerts in the park.
No glass containers or plastic tarps. Dogs are welcomed on a leash.
Food truck arrives at 2:30pm.
American Traditions: Patriotic & Jazz
Sunday, July 17, 2022 - 3:00pm
El Segundo Concert Band
Steven Allen Fox, Music Director/Conductor
July is always the time for great American music. Wear your red, white and blue and get into the American spirit.
Jazz & Swing
Sunday, July 31, 2022 - 3:00pm
Beach Cities Swing Band
Guest Vocalist, Cynthia Dunbar
Get your toes ready for tapping, and fingers ready for snapping, as the band and guest vocalist, Cynthia Dunbar, bring some of your favorite jazz standards to life.
Music from the Silver Screen
Sunday, August 14, 2022 - 3:00pm
El Segundo Concert Band
Steven Allen Fox, Music Director/Conductor
Guest Vocalist, Araceli Applegate
Maestro Fox is known as one of the world’s leading conductors of film music, having conducted in Spain, Prague, San Francisco and the Hollywood Bowl. You will remember the movies and emotions they elicit as you listen to great film music.
Past Performances
LET EARTH RING
A CONCERT TO CELEBRATE EARTH
Saturday, March 19, 2022 - 7:00pm
El Segundo Performing Arts Center (640 S. Main) - FREE ADMISSION
Inspired by the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, come on this journey with the ESCB, taking in the grandeur of Earth’s landscapes, oceans, sky and many adventures. Let the ESCB give you an evening of enjoyment full of great music and visuals.
Originally scheduled for March 2020, ESCB is excited to bring this concert to life.
Including:
Adventures of Earth from E.T.
Baba Yetu from the video game Civilization IV
The National Geographic Theme
Theme from Star Trek First Contact
Cadillac of the Skies from Empire of the Sun
Sea Songs
Mother Earth
Earthdance
On This Day Earth Shall Ring
And Then The Ocean Glows
Yosemite in Summer (by ESCB band member Nick Mazuk)
AN EL SEGUNDO
HOLIDAY CONCERT
Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 7:00pm
El Segundo High School Little Theatre (640 S. Main) - FREE ADMISSION
Get into the holiday spirit with Maestro Steven Allen Fox and the El Segundo Concert Band at this home town Holiday Concert!
Including:
A Christmas Festival
Music from Home Alone
Music from Polar Express
'Twas the Night Before Christmas, with narrator Danny Roque
Hallelujah Chorus
Stille Nacht
Dreidel Dance
and more...
HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR! CONCERT
Saturday, October 19, 2019 - 7:00pm
El Segundo Performing Arts Center (640 S. Main) - FREE ADMISSION
The El Segundo Concert Band summons all ghouls and goblins to the Halloween concert event of the year in El Segundo. Enjoy great Halloween themed music, Halloween treats and a costume contest. Let ESCB help conjure images of ghosts for you this Halloween.
Musical selections include:
Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Captain Marvel
Black Panther
Night on Bald Mountain
Sorcerer’s Apprentice (excerpt)
Theme from Child’s Play (2019)
Ghost Train (Movement 1)
…and more
FRIGHTFULLY FUN CHAMBER RECITAL
FEATURING THE SEGUNDO SAXES
Sunday, November 3, 2019 - 3:00pm
El Segundo High School Little Theatre (640 S. Main) - FREE ADMISSION
On July 20, 2019, the El Segundo Concert Band will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a special tribute concert. The celebration will blast off at 7:00pm, 50 years to the day. Don’t moonwalk…run, to make sure you don’t miss this full moon spectacular, packed with fanfares, ballads, famous standards and fan favorite film music.
Including:
Music from E.T., by John Williams
Star Trek Into the Deep, by Michael Giacchino
Moon River, by Henry Mancini
Blue Moon, by Rodgers and Hart
Moonlight Sonata, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Music from Apollo 13, by James Horner
Sea of Tranquility, by Robert Buckley
12 Seconds to the Moon, by Robert W. Smith
As the Moon Whispers, by Benjamin Yeo
God Bless America
& a few surprises from the Segundo Saxes
TO THE MOON...& BACK
Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 7:00pm
El Segundo Performing Arts Center (640 S. Main) - FREE ADMISSION
On July 20, 2019, the El Segundo Concert Band will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a special tribute concert. The celebration will blast off at 7:00pm, 50 years to the day. Don’t moonwalk…run, to make sure you don’t miss this full moon spectacular, packed with fanfares, ballads, famous standards and fan favorite film music.
Including:
Music from E.T., by John Williams
Star Trek Into the Deep, by Michael Giacchino
Moon River, by Henry Mancini
Blue Moon, by Rodgers and Hart
Moonlight Sonata, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Music from Apollo 13, by James Horner
Sea of Tranquility, by Robert Buckley
12 Seconds to the Moon, by Robert W. Smith
As the Moon Whispers, by Benjamin Yeo
God Bless America
& a few surprises from the Segundo Saxes
A BRIEF HISTORY OF JAZZ
Featuring the Segundo Sax Quartet
Sunday, July 7, 2019 - 3:00pm - FREE ADMISSION
El Segundo Woman's Club (541 Standard, El Segundo)
The Segundo Saxes will perform this new concert of great jazz selections, highlighting several eras of jazz: Blues, Ragtime, Swing, Be Bop & West Coast Cool.
Including:
Maple Leaf Rag
St. Louis Blues
Take the A Train
Pink Panther
Chameleon
Musical selections include:
The Raiders March (from the Indiana Jones film series), by John Williams
Selections from Aladdin, by Alan Menken
Olympic Fanfare and Theme, by John Williams
Festive Overture, by Dmitri Shostakovich
Second Suite in F (Mvmt 1 and 4), Gustav Holst
Music from Gettysburg, by Randy Edelman
Irish Tune from County Derry, by Percy Grainger
Into the Raging River, by Steven Reineke
Galop, by Dmitri Shostakovich
…and a few surprises!
20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Sunday, May 12, 2019 - 7:00pm
El Segundo Performing Arts Center (640 S. Main)
Give the gift of music to your Mother this Mother’s Day by joining the El Segundo Concert Band (ESCB) as they celebrate their 20th Anniversary. For 20 years ESCB, and its parent company the South Bay Music Association, have provided free concerts and high quality music education to the El Segundo community, entertaining and educating thousands. Join Maestro Steven Allen Fox, special guest ESUSD Superintendent Dr. Melissa Moore, former ESCB alumni, and other community leaders, in this special celebration of great music.
In addition, this will be the going-away tribute to Edie and Mike Rice, two pillars of the El Segundo community. The Rices have been an integral part of ESCB and SBMA since it’s inception, as well as all levels of instrumental band music in the El Segundo School District. Come help say goodbye to the Rices as everyone celebrates 20 years of music in El Segundo.
THE STORIES MUSIC TELL
Music can express an emotion, excite us with joy and laughter, or take us through incredible stories of wonder. “The Stories Music Tell” will present a selection of programmatic music that was written specifically to tell a story, portray an event or express a feeling. You will be swept away by the sounds and stories created by the El Segundo Concert Band. This extraordinary, free, family-friendly concert will take listeners on the journeys within the music.
Saturday, March 23, 2019 - 7:00pm - El Segundo Performing Arts Center (640 S. Main)
Musical selections include:
Symphonie Fantastique: March to the Scaffold & Dream of a Witch’s Sabbath, by Berlioz
Romeo and Juliet, by Tchaikowsky
An American in Paris, by Gershwin
Hoe Down, by Copland
William Tell Overture, by Rossini
Sheherazade, by Rimsky-Korsakov
Just for Laughs Concert presented by South Bay Music Association and played by the El Segundo Concert Band under the direction of Steve Allen Fox, delighted the audience with humor and music July 21st, at the ESHS Performing Arts Center. Other Symposium groups also entertained under the direction of Edie Rice.
Thank you to those who donated at the free concert to this worthy cause of keeping the music playing in our schools and community, including a generous gift from the Masonic Lodge. If you were unable to attend you can see the concert on ESTV YouTube channel in about two weeks. Thank you to ESTV for joining us at the concert.
Bravo to the jazz band formed by the Symposium students after playing together for just two weeks under the direction of Robert Soto.
And we thank the merchants, Stuft Pizza, Britts Bar-B-Que, and Coldstone Ice Cream for joining us outdoors to enhance our picnic and dining atmospere.
Also, congratulations to the El Segundo's Funniest Home Videos Contest winners, The Kingsley Family.
EPIC MUSIC
A Legendary Concert of Heroic Proportions!
Audience Members praised the extraordinary free concert provided by the El Segundo Concert Band on Sat. March 3rd with the music of Carmina Burana concluding the concert in all of it's musical intensity and glory. The Master Composers would be proud of the entire performance which will be posted on YouTube within the next few weeks to be enjoyed for many years to come.
