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The Solstice Brass
Warm Sounds for a Cold Season
We welcome Michelle Naegele,
French horn and trumpet,
for the 2008 season.
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Click here to hear the Solstice Brass playing "Deck the Halls".
Click on any blue-bordered image to see a larger version of it.
Some of the 2007
Solstice Brass
(Kolin Walker is walking
out of the photo)
The Solstice Brass perform traditional and jazzy holiday arrangements at events in the McFarland area during December. In recent years, we have played at the Harmony House living center and at the Stoughton nursing home. Since 2003, Anne Nichols has been kind enought to let us serve as crowdwarmers for the McFarland High School winter vocal concert, and play backup and do-wahs with the MHS choir; we look forward to that opportunity again this year.
Solstice Brass 2006:
frozen lips
Each year we also perform at carefully selected sites as part of McFarland's Christmas in the Village celebration. Selection criteria include temperature and food. We usually play at the bonfire before the Tree Lighting, if it's not so cold that our lips would freeze to our brass. We also play at the McFarland State Bank, which is warmer, and they give us cookies.
Cheerful flaming music
at the 2005 bonfire
Current members of the Solstice Brass are:
Autumn Leonard - euphonium and trombone
Quinn Leonard - tuba and baritone
Michelle Naegele - French horn and trumpet
Frank Ransley - trumpet
Kolin Walker - trumpet
Alumni include:
Jonathan Alden - trumpet
Amy Kolpin - French horn and trumpet
Danielle Meissen - French horn and trumpet
Sherry Wegner - French
The 2004 Solstice Brass
Since the 2003 season we have had the pleasure of being joined by woodwind ensemble pieced together from McFarland students. Another highlight was our collaboration with the brilliant Bria Mason on an unusual rendition of "Greensleeves", arranged for solo soprano vs. brass quartet. Such things are seldom heard. Then there was the year the French horn's rotors froze, and she had to lip everything, and the time Autumn tried to thaw his horn by playing close to the bonfire, and his music went up in flames . . .
See our audio clip archive for
other stimulating material.
The Solstice Brass at the McFarland State Bank in 2003
L to R: Frank Ransley, Danielle Meissen, Autumn Leonard, Quinn Leonard
The Solstice Brass at the McFarland bonfire in 2001,
trying to pretend that it's winter
L to R: Jonathan Alden, Autumn Leonard, Quinn Leonard
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Photos courtesy of Pam Sam, Tim Funk and of the Jonathan Alden Fan Club
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