Maple Leaf Community Concert Series           

2011-2012 Season

The tickets for the 2011-2012 Concert Series are now on sale!  Another exciting season has been planned.  Beginning this fall a schedule of great performers will share their outstanding talents with you.  The following programs have been scheduled:

GUY PENROD

Tuesday, September 27, 2011  

7:00 p.m.

     Born in Abilene, Texas, the son of a preacher, Guy grew up in church with a desire to somehow impact the world. "I learned pretty early in life that music was a good vehicle for me."   He nurtured the gift of music growing up by singing in church and school and recalls his mom and dad telling him the story of how they stood him up in a folding chair as a 3-year old for his debut solo of "Fill My Cup Lord."

     From there, the powerful voice that would grow through experiences in school plays, and singing with local groups and theater productions.

Guy Penrod is in every sense of the word a man cut from the cloth of rugged individualism.

      Never is this more evident than in the tracks of his first solo country album project, BREATHE DEEP.  It's more than a collection of thirteen new songs, it's the creative thumbprint of a man with strong values and a positive worldview that harkens back to deep roots in faith and family. 

SEAN JONES

Sunday, October 16, 2011

2:30 pm

Sean Jones has been singing love songs from his formative years in high school, where he joined R&B vocal group “In Essence:, a five member vocal group renowned for their spectacular harmonies and effortless ability to connect in both the R&B and Soul Music worlds.  The song “You will Never Have Another” became a mix show radio hit throughout America.  This success led to a mulinational record label deal with BMG Music.

Aleron Trio  features Monmouth’s own Anne Suda on cello, Parisian Solenn Séguillon on violin and Ms. Teresa Yu on piano.

"...The quality and purity of the performance transported the audience. Listeners enjoyed two hours of divine music and great satisfaction." 

                                      -La Presse de Gray

MAC FRAMPTON

Thursday, April 26, 2012

7:00 p.m.

     Billboard Magazine has called him “an immensely talented pianist, at home in a wide variety of musical settings.”  The Atlanta Constitution exclaimed: “How one man can bring the rafters down in Symphony Hall as if a full orchestra were playing is a feat in itself. It’s consummate musicianship.

Electrifying!”  He’s been guest soloist with such orchestras as the Boston Pops, Mantovani, Cincinnati, Atlanta, and St. Louis. Merv Griffin called him “Dynamite!”  He’s shared the stage with the likes of Bill Cosby, Glen Campbell, The Fifth Dimension, and Victor Borge. Yet, in thirty years as an entertainer, performing over 3000 concerts worldwide, Mac Frampton  has remained committed to a fundamental

belief: music is a powerful form of communication, often able to speak more deeply than words.

ALERON TRIO

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

7:00 p.m.

Aleron Trio is an ensemble of three young women from Taiwan, France, and the United States. They draw audiences with their unique energy and have been praised for their “dexterity and breathtaking perfection” by critics during their French tour.  Whether performing in cathedrals, museum galleries, intimate chapels, private homes, or the traditional concert hall, San Francisco-based Aleron Trio’s mission is to present chamber music to as broad a range of audiences as possible.  Listeners can expect to hear a variety of styles from the classical repertoire to a fusion of genres including American jazz and Irish idioms.  One of their frequently requested pieces is Café Music, a work by American composer Paul Schoenfield. It is easy to imagine Café Music played in a dark smoky café, yet at the same time Schoenfield is influenced by early 20th-century American, Viennese, classical, gypsy, and Broadway styles, which make it a natural choice for performance halls.  The San Francisco Classical Music Examiner wrote of Aleron’s performance of this piece, “They focused in on every detail, never missing out on any of Schoenfield’s tricks; and, by dutifully respecting his every demand, they allowed the rest of us to sit back and enjoy every bit of the fun.”  Audiences collectively welcome the group's commitment to performing.