With this festival program, your band will love you and your audiences will say "wow!" Not only are these charts incredibly fun to play, they are packed with intense writing and lots of raw emotion. Each chart will take you, your band, and your audiences through a roller coaster of great festival music!

Sierra Music recommends programming your festival performance in the following order:

The Trot - Benny Carter
As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, this bright, swinging, happy chart will blow the doors off the room as an opener. Benny Carter's music is of the highest quality, and this tune is no exception. There is solo space for tenor, trumpet, trombone, piano and bass. This is the way to wake up your band and audiences! 5-4-4-4

Across the Sky - Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays
Bob Curnow's marvelous arrangement on this gorgeous Metheny/Mays ballad will surely "tug at your heartstrings." A solid, contemporary sounding tune, this chart features tenor saxophone throughout and has very modest brass ranges. This is not your ordinary festival ballad! 5-4-4-4 (w/ opt. 10-brass parts)

Bodysnatchers - Radiohead / arr. Fred Sturm
You are going to have to hold onto your hat on this one! Be prepared for the excitement in the room to spike through the roof on this chart. Fred Sturm's powerful arrangement captures the raw passion of Radiohead's version with unique harmonic variations, textural manipulation, and expansion of the original's form. Soprano is the featured soloist. 5-4-4-5

The Trot - Demo CD 120
Across the Sky - Demo CD 118
Bodysnatchers - L.U. Plays the Music of Radiohead