Announcing MAFB's 20th Season

Twenty years of growth, milestones, and music making is certainly something to celebrate! Mid America Freedom Band continues to showcase the most diverse array of composers writing for concert band. With emphasis on Missouri and Midwestern composers this season, MAFB also pulls from its extensive library of commissioned works to give them a second hearing. This season culminates in a Spring Concert held at the beautifully remodeled Folly Theater for a program that is not to be missed.

Sunday, October 9, 2022
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Lyric Opera

MAFB highlights three exciting young compositional voices to come out of Missouri on this concert with music by Richard Joey Carter, Kristen Hirlinger, and Matthew Manning. These works are paired with the father of modern concert band music, Missouri’s own Claude T. Smith’s Incidental Suite. Jason Gerraughty’s burn it down. salt the earth and Evan Williams’ love words give us the “Bitter” of the concert’s title. Smith and Tom Davoren’s award winning “Midwestern Suite” bring the “Suite” and Ida Gotkovsky’s rapturous Joyeuse Symphonie offers us our “Symphony.”

Saturday, December 17, 2022
5:00 PM 7:00 PM
Lyric Opera House

Grab your sleigh bells, horses, reindeer, and toboggans as MAFB blasts off through snow-covered hills and fields with a holiday program that captures all the joy and fun of sleigh rides, sledding, and the inescapable jingling of bells. We hope to warm your spirits and have you laughing all the way.

Friday, May 19, 2023
7:30 PM 9:30 PM
Folly Theatre

Twenty years in the making, Mid America Freedom Band is going all out with a celebratory concert that looks back on the ensemble’s history and its exciting path for the future. We are thrilled to present this concert at the historic Folly Theater and hope you’ll join us to hear works by James Barnes, Paul Creston, Vivian Fine, Christen Taylor Holmes, Erin Keeton-Howard, Stephen Montague, Derrick Syke, and our own artistic director Lee Hartman. Cheers!

Annual Free Concert TBA