Lock City Sound and the Lockport High School Advanced Jazz Band are joining forces to present Spring Sing 2025 on Saturday.
“Sounds of the Cinema” will begin at 7 p.m. at the high school auditorium. Expect to hear a wide variety of songs and scores you may recognize from decades of movies, from Love Story and The Muppet Movie to Bird and A Bug’s Life, plus a few tunes from television.
Likening the concert to a sandwich, Lock City Sound director Drew Burke said the men’s glee club is the “bread” around the jazz band’s “meat.”
The program order has Sound opening the show with six songs, then joining with the jazz band for a medley, The Best of James Bond. Then the jazz band alone will take center stage to perform an extended series of instrumentals, followed up by more songs from Sound, and ending with another two-group medley, A Tribute to the Blues Brothers.
Why Sounds of the Cinema?
“I had been thinking about a number of great film songs that don’t get radio play,” Burke said. “There’s a lot of great content that covers all genres, all styles. This should give all kinds of people a reason to come out (to Spring Sing). Plus, I really just wanted to play some James Bond songs.”
Sounds of the Cinema will be the LHS Advanced Jazz Band’s second joint performance with Lock City Sound; the groups first joined forces for Spring Sing 2023: Generations and Jazz.
Jazz band director Tim Martin said Spring Sing is another performance opportunity for his students. They rehearse every day and he makes sure they get to perform at least once a month.
Spring Sing creates exposure for the high school jazz band, as well.
“The glee club has a pretty good local following that might not have heard us play,” Martin said.
“We’ve been having a blast rehearsing the Blues Brothers (medley),” he added.
Tickets for Sounds of the Cinema are $10 in advance and $12 at the door for adults; students are admitted at no charge. Each group received an allotment of advance tickets to sell as their own fundraiser; they’re splitting the gate receipts.