Strathman Stuff: I'm a little late

OK, I have been a little lazy with keeping up the posts. But I will try to be better. I wanted to share with you a really cool opportunity I had at our 4th of July concert. Every summer the band I play in, Northwinds Concert Band does a concert in front of thousands of people in our town right before the fireworks go up. This year's theme was broadway. So we did some broadway and some patriotic music. I asked the director if I could sing a song from one of my favorite broadway shows "Jersey Boys." If you don't know this show it is the story of Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons. Anyway... so I arranged "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" for concert band and we peformed it. It had a few little bumps in the performance but the arrangement worked great. I am very proud of that accomplishment.

We also spent some time last week sight seeing around the St. Louis area. One of the places we visited was Meremac Caverns. If you are familiar with the Caverns, it is a big cave where Jesse James was reported to hide out with stalactites that are millions of years old. A truly awesome sight. Here are some photos.

My niece Genni is graduating from high school and going into Music Education at McKendree University next fall (proud Uncle Marc). She had her graduation party last weekend and we had a blast. We got to see some family that we haven't seen in a long time and who have never met Christopher. Here are some photos from that.