Kathy Gibson

    SYMPHONY POPS

Live, Laugh, Love-

A look at life's favorite moments through favorite songs from broadway, pop music, standards and the great american songbook. Programing might include:

                 Some People

                 If

                 Hero and Leander

                 Ring Them Bells

                 Makin Whoppee

                 Rain On My Parade

                 Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf

                 Life With Harold

                 The Very Thought of You

                 The West Side Shopping Story

                 I'm a Woman

                 What the World Needs Now

                 Being Alive

• The American Contemporary Songbook -From Boogie to Bacharach to Broadway. The new standards we all know and love

                  Elvis Medley

                  My Girl / My Guy

                  I'm A Woman

                 The Novelty Song Medley

                 Up On The Roof

                 What The World Needs Now

                 New York, New York

• Big Band Bash-a foot tapping swing through America's original artform.    Audio sample

                 Teach Me Tonight

                  Skylark  

                  Makin Whoppee

                  Fever  

                  Minnie The Moocher

                  Tuxedo Junction

                  The Best Is Yet To Come   

                  Stuff Like That there

                  The Very Thought Of You

                  Ellington Medley

             Smaller Ensemble Concerts

• Swing Time!-The original Big Band Sound and it's greatest songs with the 15 piece River City Jazz Ensemble. A guaranteed hit with audiences of all ages.
• Summer Samba-Featuring the get-you-movin Latin sounds of Tito Puente, Sergio Mendes, Celia Cruz and others. This 9 piece band with vocalist Kathy Wagner bring you the great songs and infectious rhythms of these great artists.
• Women and American Song-Carol King, Dorothy Fields, Laura Nero, Diane Warren, Carly Simon, Melissa Manchester, Carol Bayer Sager....the list goes on through a fantastic line up of songs from the Diva's of American songwriting! A 4 piece band accompanies this popular show.
• Live, Laugh, Love!-The voice and piano version of this popular program. A look at life's great adventures told through songs from Broadway, The Great American Songbook and Pop music favorites.

Click on the link to see a performance as a guest artist with the Aquinas college Jazz Ensemble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jrVqXIhYy8