MUSKOKA CONCERT BAND BEGINS FREE WEDNESDAY NIGHT SUMMER CONCERT SERIES IN DWIGHT, 7 P.M., WITH ‘LET’S DANCE’ BEACH PARTY

MUSKOKA — Grab a lawn chair and dip your feet in the water at the Dwight Beach Wednesday night for the first of four concerts by the Muskoka Concert Band.

The community orchestra plays popular district parks evenings in July for free — with a goodwill collection.

After a Canada Day kick off at the new Bracebridge Band Shell, the 35-member brass, wind and percussion group perform a winter’s worth of their favourite numbers.

This season’s show is billed as “Let’s Dance!”

And feature popular music ranging from the 1920s to 2026.

You’ll hear everything from Dixieland to Broadway and from the Beatles to Motown and beyond.

Popular music with songs you’ll know and love in several different concert programs.

Listen to “High Society” or the fun melody of “Five Foot Two” in a Dixieland style, classic big band tunes in “Count Basie Salute” and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.”

Great popular Broadway melodies can be heard in “Broadway Spectacular” and “A Chorus Line.”

As well as songs from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, like “Blue Moon” featuring their clarinettist Sarah Lovering, “Close to You, Spanish Eyes,” and at least one medley of songs by Carol King, Billy Joel, or Michael Bublé.

The brassy, windy, booming band will even get a bit funky with “Fireflies” and a little “Uptown Funk!” featuring a fast few bars of vocalise by the full trumpet section.

Join them the next four Wednesdays — plus one bonus show Saturday July 11 at the Bracebridge Library at 2 p.m.

Better yet, come to all of them so you can enjoy all of the great tunes they’ve been working on Monday nights in Utterson rehearsing for your entertainment and enjoyment.

Bring your dancing shoes or Clogs and feel free to sing along and have summer fun just before the sun sets.

• JULY 8 — Dwight Beach, 7 p.m.

• JULY 11 — Bracebridge Library, 2 p.m.

• JULY 15 — Huntsville Docks, 7 p.m.

• JULY 22 — Port Sydney Beach