United States Navy Band Commodores

Name: United States Navy Band Commodores
Start: 2024-10-21T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 280 Central Ave, Fredonia, NY, United States, New York 14063

Schedule

Mon Oct 21 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

280 Central Ave, Fredonia, NY, United States, New York 14063 | Fredonia, NY

FREE CONCERT (tickets required)
fredonia.edu/tickets or 716-673-3501
Alumna Kristine Hsia will make a special homecoming visit this October when she returns to Fredonia for a free concert performance as a member of the U.S. Navy Band Commodores.
Hsia, a 2010 Fredonia graduate, is the lead vocalist for the Commodores, the Navy’s premier jazz ensemble. The Commodores will perform in a free concert on Monday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Harry A. King Concert Hall. The event is presented by Rockefeller Arts Center.
Hsia earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Fredonia. During her time on campus, she was a featured vocalist in Rockefeller’s 2010 Commencement-Eve Pops concert “All That Jazz” and performed in Department of Theatre and Dance Walter Gloor Mainstage Series productions including “Kiss Me, Kate.”
A native of Holbrook, NY, Hsia enlisted in the Navy in 2012. She has been the lead vocalist for the Commodores jazz ensemble since 2014. This will be her second performance at Fredonia with the Commodores, following an October 2019 concert.
The Commodores’ mission includes public concerts, national concert tours, ceremonial support in honoring our veterans, jazz education classes and clinics, and protocol performances for high-level military and civilian government officials. Formed in 1969, this 18-member group continues the jazz big band legacy with some of the finest musicians in the world.
Their concerts are described as “an eclectic mix of traditional big band music, exciting jazz vocal arrangements and fresh new instrumental music” written specifically for the Commodores of today.