DSU Yuletyme, City Band concert Saturday
Dec. 5—DICKINSON — It's Christmas time in Queen City. That means concerts, holiday parties and more jingle bell joy.
The Dickinson State University Heritage Foundation will host its annual Yuletyme party Saturday evening. The North Dakota based pop-country band Slamabama will be performing live music as well. Haylee Cripe-Culver, an adjunct faculty member with the DSU School of Business and Entrepreneurship who helped organize the event, said she's excited to rock the Biesiot Activities Center with a fun filled night.
"The goal is to raise scholarship dollars for DSU students," Culver said. "The theme is Battle of the Bands. So we're encouraging guests to dress up as their favorite musician or band. Then the decor and games that we have at the event, all that will be geared towards that, almost a concert experience."
She added there will be fun games to play such as "pin the tongue on Gene Simmons," Guitar Hero and dice games, with opportunities to win gift baskets donated by various local businesses.
The doors open at 5 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. Bernie's Esquire Club will be on-site to offer a bar with adult beverages. The live auction begins at 8, and Slamabama will cap off the night 8:45 p.m. Tickets cost $125 each and should be purchased in advance by calling 701-483-2486.
According to their website, the foundation awards more than $1.1 million in scholarships annually.
"We have such a diverse group of donors that generously give to the DSU Heritage Foundation for scholarship needs, including alumni, friends, faculty, staff and our local community," Executive Director Ty Orton
said
in a previous interview. "We are greatly supported by the local businesses in Dickinson and throughout southwest North Dakota."
The Dickinson City Band and Strings will host their annual concert at the Dickinson High School auditorium also on Saturday, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The crew has been rehearsing since September.
This band has been serenading Dickinson for more than a century. The concert is led by DHS band director Matt Goettle, with musicians of all ages playing together. The band dazzled audiences
last year
with holiday tunes and even musical scores from the iconic 1990 frontier film "Dances with Wolves."
"We're just looking forward to putting some music out into the community that will you know, bring some smiles to people and especially during this Christmas season," Goettle said.
Priscilla Keogh, wife of Dickinson Municipal Court Judge
Robert Keogh,
is a percussion band member and conductor for the strings section. She said it's a unique opportunity for residents to hear a type of musical performance less common than it used to be.
"We feel that it's nice for the community to be able to hear live orchestra and string music because we don't have string programs in our schools here. So people don't hear the strings very often," Keogh said. "They're a beautiful part of our musical heritage."
Some of the songs to be played will include "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella," "America the Beautiful" and a Billy Joel piece called "And So It Goes." She said the band has approximately 35 members, with about 15 of them in her strings section. Christmas classics will include "Away in a Manger," "Carol of the Bells" and "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year."
