Kathy Huggler

“Under Their Spell”     ...the Magicial Music of American Composers

This lively concert launches with Muncie musician Phil Cooley at the keyboard, with George Gershwin’s jazzy “Piano Conerto in F”. 

Then it’s short pieces from musical mood-setting masters Leroy Anderson, Henry Mancini, and John Williams. 

AND - special Guest Conductor Dr. Charles Reynolds is helping out, too!

It's all about celebrating some of the very best about Muncie.

In honor of AHB's 31st year of providing free public music in Muncie, this event opens the 2019 season by presenting outstanding local soloists and conductors in concert at Emens, including three world-premiere pieces of music.

Star soloists are Phil Cooley, Lisa Kozenko, Rachel Eldridge, Patrick Stauffer, and George Wolfe. Guest conductor is Caroline Hand.

Jazz Up Your Downtown Lunch Break

The Big Band/Jazz musicians from  America's Hometown Band are your very special 'lunch combo' for Foodie Friday at high noon! 

Plus - crooner Clay Arnett to add a little extra spice.

Be there when the trumpets, trombones, saxes, and rhythm players come out to play. It's lively, lovely, and loud - just like summer should be!!

A Journey to Remember - Back to Those Golden Oldies Days

America's Hometown Band & The Reminisce Band team up again for an evening of great golden music tunes.

Bring the lawn seating, friends, and memories -- sing along, dance, or just soak it in and have a blast!

Come for the ice cream, dancing, and fire truck tours -- stay for the Live-Music Concert by Muncie's America's Hometown Band. 

Hear much-loved  traditional Christmas favorites from AHB’s Concert Band, Jazz Band,  vocalists, soloists, and storytellers.

-FREE family fun for your 2019 holiday-

This is BIG. Tuba-sized Big! 

Christmas Fun for the whole family - FREE

 TubaChristmas is a tradition shared in countries the world over. It's when tuba (& other low brass) players get together to create and share Christmas tunes with the holiday crowd - wherever they are.

In Muncie, this Christmas-only group is sponsored yearly  by America's Hometown Band musicians.        Don't miss out!

A Family Concert of lively classic dance music to enjoy - ballet & waltz, tango & salsa -  plus current dance party  standards 

Free admission

Free parking

AHB's Jazz Combo follows Will Frazier as he applies his jazz savvy to traditional Irish tunes - for the 'lucky' St Patrick's Day diners at Vera Mae's.  

Table Reservation highly recommended - at veramaes.com, or 765 747 4941

America’s Hometown Band hosts a Free, Live, one-hour USA Celebration Concert in downtown Muncie for a July 4th prelude to city fireworks.

Lots of lawn seating, open to all, and great family entertainment — keeping tradition with the best of Independence Day tunes that American children need to hear & learn about 🎵

  Come celebrate this get-together-again 2021 summer, with “The Music of the Park” at Westside Park in Muncie at 7 pm on Thu, July 29.   
   This FREE - Live - outdoor concert performance by America’s Hometown Band delivers the feel-good summer tunes that everyone loves to hear!

Free, Public event—       

 A celebration of Dr. Cooley’s longtime support of live musical performance in his hometown of Muncie, by the bands he helped to create - the Concert Band and the Big Band from America’s Hometown Band.

 rain location:   Emens   Auditorium at Ball State

ECICO musicians & dancers from Cole Academy of Dance combine to create a classically-inspired evening of lovely sound and movement.
-Free public admission & parking-              

East Central Indiana Chamber Orchestra’s annual Spring Concert — it‘s a “take your family to the orchestra” date —  a quick cross-country hop around the USA, saluting musical theater, and the beauty of the land and the cultures in it - from best-loved American composers such as Copland, Bernstein, and Grofe.

-Free, public admission & parking-

It's the summer’s first performance of the Big Band from America’s Hometown Band. The music lineup is a primer of hugely popular swing-band tunes & the bandleaders who made them great. From the Glen Miller Band’s 1945 hit, Leap Frog, to the Dean Martin vocal chart-buster in 1954, Sway, to the fabulous Ray Charles song released in 1962, I Can’t Stop Loving You – this is some of the most-loved American music ever.

  From Muncie's own America's Hometown Band, since 1988. This free, public concert is the One – the best of USA patriotic tunes, performed LIVE and lively, to celebrate our Nation's Independence Day. Plus - a spectacular finish with Sousa's rousing march tune Stars & Stripes Forever!

       The sweet, sultry sounds of ‘Swing’  tunes are back in town — the evening of July 28, outdoors on the Ball State arts terrace lawn —  via  the Big Band musicians of America’s Hometown Band.  Free and open to all on the tree- covered quad lawn. 

  The fabulous songs of the 60's & 70's rock on in Muncie, with the coming together again of America's Hometown Band and the Reminisce Band. The scene is LIVE downtown on the Canan Commons stage. And of course with lots of audience space on the huge lawn for picnics, dancing, singing along, and just feelin' groovy again.  Free admission & open to all.