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Friday, June 24

City of Syracuse Department of Parks, Recreation and Youth Programs Stan Colella All-Star Band, under the direction of Joe Carello. 5 p.m.

This program gives young musicians a training ground as well as an opportunity to be musical ambassadors for the city of Syracuse. The big band, composed of 17 high school-age musicians, annually plays more than 60 performances of swing, jazz and patriotic music.

Started as the Parks and Recreation All Stars in 1971, the band was later renamed as a tribute to its longtime director, local trumpet legend Stan Colella.

Native Syracusan and saxophonist Joe Carello has fronted the All-Star Band since 2003. He also performed with the band as a youth, and played with Colella’s professional group for many years. He has performed with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra on many occasions as a featured soloist in concerts with Diane Schurr, Maureen McGovern and Jeff Tyzik, to name a few.

Joe was also a member of the Syracuse Symphony Rock Ensemble, a group started by Calvin Custer in the 1970s. As lead alto saxophonist with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, he has performed with Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, Joe Lovano, Bob Mintzer, Grady Tate and others. As a sideman, Joe has worked with Chuck and Gap Mangione, Harry Connick Jr., Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow and Frank Sinatra Jr. He has recorded with Danny D’Imperio, Eric Alexander, Barry Harris, Nancy Kelly, Ralph Lalama and more.

In addition to his performing career, Joe is a teacher at Onondaga Community College, Le Moyne College and co-director of The Band Bus School Music Service, which provides musical instruments to elementary and middle school children across upstate New York.

All-County High School All-Star Jazz Band, under the direction of Steve Frank. 5:45 p.m.

This band features some of the best high school jazz musicians in Onondaga County. Representing 10 different districts, the members of the band were selected by audition.

Steve Frank is honored to have the chance to direct the band at the Syracuse Jazz Fest, and promises an intense, hard-swinging set that will include charts ranging from the classic repertoire of big band jazz to the very latest from some of today’s most innovative jazz writers and arrangers.

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Each week in Unearthing the Metal Underground , we’ll be putting a few quality underground bands in the spotlight in an attempt to get the word out about them. This week I am delving into the ferocious metal offered up to the music gods via the Salt Lake City underground metal scene.

In the past, Utah has been known for many things, such as the majestic Rocky Mountains, the Mormon (LDS) culture (really Utahn’s don’t have horns) and of course… polygamy (which 99% of our population does not practice, even if many them would like to). But unbeknownst to the world, it also contains an amazing array of music. From rock, to alternative, to death metal, local bands are showing the world that Utah/Salt Lake City has far more to offer to the Gods of Metal than terrain, religion or quirky lifestyles.

A Balance Of Power is one of the first metal bands I came across upon delving into the local scene. They have a very distinct sound combined of progressive and thrash, whcih culminates into pure metal mayhem. Their sound has take them to great heights in Utah and beyond as well as procuring them the honor of being Utah’s first offical Jagermiester sponsored band. From small intimate stages in clubs to opening Rockstar Mayhem festival in Idaho, A Balance Of Power bring out the metal fans in hordes.

Their music is charged with an intense energy that is catapulted to amazing heights at live shows. They recently released their newest CD in April of 2011, “Pride Preceded the Fall.” With fierce vocals, guitar and bass riffs that burn into your soul and powerful drum beats, A Balance Of Power is a band to gratify your metal loving soul. A Balance Of Power is Chuck Stone (vocals), Chris Margetts (guitar), Shane Garner (guitar), Adam Fowler (bass), Marvin Dixon (drums). Check them out at ReverbNation .

Arsenic Addiction is another amazing band out of Salt Lake City, UT. with an unparalleled uniqueness that has garnered them an awesome following. Their stage show is an intriguing mix of melodic metal and amazing theatrics that seduces your senses. From Lady Arsenic popping out of her coffin to the duel to the death, Arsenic Addiction’s live performances are a mesmerizing site to behold and the music elicits a need for more, an addiction that is never fully satisfied.

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