The St. Luke’s Bottle Band to perform in Arlington Heights

The St. Luke's Bottle Band will perform in concert at 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, November 10 at the Forest View Educational Center Theater, 2121 S. Goebbert Road, Arlington Heights.  They will perform a wide variety of music including classical, jazz and Chicago sports team theme songs.  

The Northwest Suburban Community Concert Association, in partnership with District 214 Community Education, is hosting the concert.  Thrivent Financial is underwriting the concert through a generous donation.

The concert is open to the public and there is no admission charge for this nearly free concert, but concert-goers are requested to bring two canned goods or a $5 cash donation for the St. Peter's Food Pantry in Schaumburg.

The members of the St. Luke’s Bottle Band, from St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Park Ridge, Illinois, have been entertaining audiences with their unique style of music making for thirty-five years. Founded in 1978 by Professor Paul Phillips, the group uses tuned bottles to play everything from Bach to the blues. The band has been heard on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and seen on Wild Chicago, the NBC Evening News and America’s Got Talent. Twice the Bottle Band has traveled to New York to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman. 
 
The Bottle Band is well known among Lutherans. In 1991 the group traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, to perform for the American Lutheran Church Musician’s Conference. In 2002 the band entertained sixty-five bishops from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at a conference in Chicago. Their most recent road trip took them to an ELCA regional assembly in Houston, Texas.
 
The St. Luke’s Bottle Band has also performed with local symphony orchestras, including the Northbrook Symphony and the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest. In February of 2007 the band performed at Symphony Center before a Chicago Symphony youth concert, and also participated in three youth concerts at the University of Chicago with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. 
 
Through its shows at St. Luke’s Church and benefit performances at other locations, the Bottle Band has raised over $200,000 for various charities and organizations. 
 
For more information about the St. Luke’s Bottle Band, visit the website of St.Luke’s Lutheran Church at www.stlukespr.org. First click "Celebrating Our Community", and then select "Bottle Band".

For more information about the Northwest Suburban Community Concert Association, please visit the web site at www.nscommunityconcerts.org.