Woodland Park has a tradition of having an outdoor concert presented by the Colorado Springs Symphony the night after the 4th. Glenn and I haven't been to the concert for quite a few years now so were excited when friends called and invited us to sit with them!
It's a great social event - everybody brings their lawn chairs, blankets, sweatshirts, and a cooler packed with drinks and food! They have live music till the actual symphony starts and there are always a ton of people there!
It was a gorgeous evening - it had clouded up during the afternoon so we didn't have the bright sun shining on us and later on, we were sure glad we had our jackets!
The concert was amazing! The first song they did was a collaboration of the armed force songs and any active or retired servicemen or women were to stand when their branch song was played! WOW - I don't think there was a dry eye in the place by the time the song was finished! And then the fire chief for our county talked a minute about our recent fire and informed us it was 90% contained! A few of our firemen came forward and we all clapped and cheered for them!
A few of the songs were war songs from World War II but we still recognized them! Later on they had a fantastic trumpet player play a Louie Armstrong song and then sing it - he was amazing!
Their final number is always the 1812 Overture - and in years past Ft. Carson always brings up the cannons to fire during that piece - unfortunately we had no cannons this year and no fireworks due to the fire - but we were all OK with that!
As we walked to our cars after the concert was over, the thunder and lightning started up - a perfect end to a perfect evening! And as far as pictures go, alas, my camera was left at work............
2 comments:
Sounds like fun! We start our picnic pops this Friday with our patriotic theme. Last night was Brandi Carlile. I love July!
Glad you had a great time - we'll have to make a point to come down for that sometime - it IS always a great time!
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