capital city band

tonight is the first in the wisconsin chamber orchestra's annual concerts on the square series, in which the wisconsin chamber orchestra performs on the steps of the state capitol. thousands of folks sit on the grassy square and picnic, listen, and enjoy a summer evening downtown. barring another severe thunder storm, we will be there.

as a warm-up to tonight's musical festivities, last night we decided to ride our bikes to olbrich gardens, and take in a performance of their concerts on the garden series. the capital city band was playing.

the capital city band conductor had a sort of cab calloway-esque, sing-songy way of introducing each number. he was quite enjoyable. they may lack some of the polish of the chamber orchestra, but they make up for it in enthusiasm. it is the 40th season for the ccb.

in addition to the many retirees in attendance, the mosquitoes were out in very fine form. i guess all this rain we've been having has given the skeeters plenty of places to reproduce. we were glad we were sitting next to these fine folks who lent us some of their bug spray.


i guess it was technically our bug spray, since they weren't so much seated next to us, but on the picture on the front of the bottle of bug spray. if only they would have let us borrow their wind breakers too.