Featured Entertainment

Saturday Evening Headline Entertainment - October 13, 2007

The Fab Four

The Ultimate Beatles Tribute is a full-scale production. The multimedia presentation features four actor/musicians playing John, Paul, George and Ringo. The ensemble creates uncanny, note-perfect renditions of the catalogue of classic Beatles songs, and the show traces the group’s progress from the youthful innocence of “Love Me Do” to the wistful grown-up quality of “Let It Be.”

The Fab Four is elevated far above every other Beatles tribute due to their precise attention to detail. With uncanny, note-for-note live renditions of Beatles' songs, The Fab Four will make you think you are watching the real thing.

For more information, Visit the Fab Four Web Site.

Tickets are $25.00 and are general admission.  Ticket orders must be postmarked after June 1, 2007 and will be handled in the order in which they are received. Ticket requests should be mailed to:

Hyllningsfest Entertainment
P.O. Box 323
Lindsborg, Kansas 67456

Featured Entertainers from Sweden

Torsby Brass

Welcome!
Meet the Torsby Brass and enjoy the sight and sound of twenty-five brass players with their shining instruments. We want to share a musical experience with you. Weather the music is solemn, happy or majestic; our ambition is to play it in a way that it reaches the hearts of our listeners.  Torsby, situated right in the middle of the Swedish district of Värmland, is a village surrounded by deep forests, beautiful lakes and miles of wilderness. The community has about 13,000 inhabitants but since the surface is very big you will find in average only 4 people per km2. From this part of Sweden thousands of people left their homeland during the end of the 19th century with a hope to find a better future in America.

Tentative Schedule as of Sept. 17, 2007
Thursday, Oct. 11: 7:00 p.m. Perform opening/closing at Heritage Church Service; 9:00 pm Nocture concert at Bethany Church
Friday, Oct. 12: Perform at main stage downtown Lindsborg 4:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 13: 9:50 a.m. Quintet to perform anthems; 10:00 a.m. on a float in parade; time not set performance at Bethany Church in the early afternoon; 2:45 - 3:30 p.m. performance on main stage, downtown Lindsborg
Sunday, Oct. 14: Perform during church service at Covenant Church of Lindsborg

What is a Brass band?
In a brass band there are no clarinets, saxophones or other reed - only brass instruments and percussion. The first brass bands were formed among miners and factory workers in England during the middle of the 1900 century. When William Booth founded the Salvation Army he realized that bands would be a useful help to gather people in the streets. Since then other churches followed the example and started bands within their congregations.

History
The story of Torsby Brass goes back to 1965 when the Missions Church congregation (Swedish Covenant Church) in Torsby decided to form a youth band as a part of their work among youngsters. The activity was very successful and through the years many young musician have been trained in the brass band. Some of them have gone further to a professional carrier as musicians.

The Music
The band plays a lot of different music depending on the occasion. We play hymn tunes and sacred music in services; folk music, classical music, soloist performances and original works in Concert Halls. And in an outdoor concert we like to entertain the audience with marches and light music from films and musicals. 


Competitions
Torsby Brass has taken part in several competitions for Brass Bands. Both in 2005 and 2006 the band was placed no 1 in Swedish Brass Band Festival B-section. In 2005 the band was the Swedish representative in World Music Contest, Kerkrade, Holland.


USA-tour October 2007
Thanks to personal relations between Torsby and Lindsborg, Kansas, Torsby Brass has been invited to take part in “Svensk Hyllningsfest” witch is held in Lindsborg every other year (in 2007 11-14 October). Therefore the band is planning a two week USA-tour with visits in Princeton, Moline, Swedesburg, Kansas City, Lindsborg, Topeka, Stanton and ending up in Chicago.


Conductor
Torsby Brass is conducted by Mrs Berit Palmquist who works as Musical Director within the Swedish Mission Covenant Church. 


Song Soloist
Mrs Carita Hook will join the tour as song soloist. Mrs Hook is a song teacher at Geijer Folk High School in Ransäter. Carita Hook and the band have been working together on several occasions.

Reverend
During the USA-tour, reverend Curth Sandstrom will serve as tour leader and pastor.
Curth was taking courses at North Park Theological Seminary in 78-79. He is currently serving as pastor in Torsby Covenant Church.

For more information, visit the Torsby Brass website: www.torsbybrass.se

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PO Box 323
Lindsborg, KS 67456