This season we begin our next 25 years of concerts and events brought to the citizens of Ponca City! Experience the majesty of Carl Orf’s masterpiece, Carmina Burana, with the OSU Orchestra and Chorale. It’s homecoming for jazz singer Katy Bourne, and we welcome back the swinging sounds of The Great Big Band, from our neighbor to the south, Perry, OK. Continuing the tradition of great guitarists, is Steven King. In partnership with the Library’s Summer Reading program, we host the “Sing Along Slumber Party” with Monty Harper. This is an exciting season!

 

 

Performers will also appear in area schools and senior living centers.

 
Carl Orf ’s Carmina Burana with the OSU Symphony Orchestra and Chorale - MARCH 12
Feel the power of the world’s best loved choral-orchestral music only a live performance can deliver!

 

Hutchins Memorial Auditorium, 5th & Overbrook, 7:30 p.m. Free admission

 
Katy Bourne Jazz Singer - MAY 11
Katy, a 1980 Po-Hi grad, comes home as a shining vocalist who can swing as elegantly as the young Nancy Wilson while invading a lyric with both the insightfulness of Anita O’Day and the smolder of Julie London.

 

 

 

Poncan Theatre, 104 East Grand Avenue, 7:30 p.m. Free admission

 
Sing Along Slumber Party With Monty Harper, Professional Songwriter - JULY 10

Every kid knows all the really fun stuff happens after bedtime! Monty Harper entertains with songs about night-time adventures, perfect for the entire family.

 

 

 

 

 

Ponca City Library, 515 East Grand Avenue, 10:00 a.m. Free admission

 
Great Big Band Swing/Jazz Band - OCTOBER 4
People are re-discovering the American Songbook Standards of Sinatra, Cole, Stafford, Clooney and the Dorseys. Enjoy the sounds of this uniquely American style of music!


Poncan Theatre, 104 East Grand Avenue, 7:00 p.m. Free admission
 
Steven King International Finger Style Guitar Champion - NOVEMBER 6
If music is magic, King is one of the world’s great magicians, able to move musical mountains without a single thumbpick. He will astound you with solo acoustic renditions of the Benny Goodman staple “Sing, Sing, Sing”
or the Beatles.




Poncan Theatre, 104 East Grand Avenue, 7:00 p.m. Free admission

 

  • March 7, 2013 - Tekumbe, Musical Fusion of Salsa, Blues & Reggae
     

  • April 11, 2013 - NOC’s favorite, The Roustabouts