If you would like booking information please contact:

• Mary Weis, Program Assistant (563) 387-1009
• Benji Nichols, Program Director (563) 387-1725

The 2010 Celebration Iowa show

Each show begins & ends with featured selections from the Celebration Iowa Jazz Band. The group performs classic swing charts,  modern big band charts, and original songs / arrangements from some of today’s newest composers.

I) The Brothers Gershwin
(An original arrangement saluting the prolific American composers George & Ira Gershwin.)

II) Legacy: Elvis 75!
(A rock and roll tribute to Elvis Presley who would be 75 in 2010.)

III) Ritmo Caliente
(A celebration of Latin influence on American pop music.)

About Celebration Iowa

Celebration Iowa is a not-for-profit organization created in the midst of the farm crisis of the 1980's by Dr. Dennis L. Darling and Dr. Judith Bowstead Nye, two Luther College educators optimistic about Iowa's youth. This program is a celebration of the talent, potential, energy and spirit of the people of Iowa. Celebration Iowa's mission is to:

• provide opportunities for talented Iowa high school students to perform in an educational, service-oriented setting;
• provide quality entertainment to Iowans at local fairs and festivals, concerts, and  state-wide events;
• participate in an outreach program to serve Iowans who are unable to join our celebration at nursing homes, Veterans care facilities, care centers, youth detention centers, and special-needs camps;
• offer a program of intensive study, practice, and performance where high school musicians can polish performance skills and study music theory, improvisation, music literature, theatre, and dance.
• provide training by exemplary staff who are experts from the worlds of music, dance, education, and performance;
• foster arts programming in local communities throughout the state of Iowa.