Music Roundup:

Chris Heim’s Music Roundup 10.24.11
The full list of regional concert dates from over 100 regional venues can be found in the Comprehensive Concert Listings.

Highlights this week include the WSU Symphony Orchestra annual family concert; Forties musical revue In the Mood;  the funky Left Coast soul-jazz MarchFourth Marching Band; and jazz legend Herbie Hancock.

WICHITA THIS WEEK

There are a number of performances on the WSU campus this week. The WSU Women’s Choir and Concert Chorale perform Monday evening in Wiedemann Recital Hall. Tuesday evening the WSU Symphony Orchestra presents its annual family concert with movie music as the theme.  Charlie Chaplin’s classic silent The Pawnshop will be shown with live orchestral accompaniment. Other selections include music from John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, and music from The Lion King, The Sea Hawk and Gone with the Wind.  The performance takes place in the CAC Theatre. Then on Sunday WSU hosts a guest recital with marimba player Brian Mueller in Wiedemann Recital Hall.

The golden era of the big bands is captured in the ‘40s musical revue, In the Mood. The touring show, now in its 18th season, is at the Orpheum Theater Thursday with an appearance the night before at the Lied Center in Lawrence.

REGIONAL SHOWS

Willie Nelson’s son Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real appear at the McCain Auditorium in Manhattan Tuesday and the Stiefel Theater in Salina Wednesday.

Friday Knuckleheads Saloon in Kansas City hosts one of several benefit concerts around the country for Jim O’Neal, founding editor of the esteemed Living Blues magazine, who has been diagnosed with cancer and is without medical insurance. The lineup includes talented Louisiana bluesman Kenny Neal, Jim Suhler (who is part of George Thorogood’s band and appearing here with his own group, Monkey Beat) and KC blues group, Levee Town.

Friday, the funky soul-jazz MarchForth Marching Band, who just released a third album, the Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) produced set called Magnificent Beast, open for KC electronica band, Quixotic, at Liberty Hall in Lawrence.