Michigan Philharmonic • Summer Concert Series

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This is a FREE outdoor concert. Bring a chair or blanket, picnics welcome.

Date and Time: June 27, 2026 7pm

Location: Kellogg Park Downtown Plymouth, MI

Join Michigan Philharmonic for a summer filled with music!

As we celebrate America 250!, an American Salute includes patriotic favorites and highlights American composers including Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, an Armed Forces Salute, Aaron Copland’s Hoedown and John Phillip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever.

• Star-Spangled Banner John Stafford Smith
• Hoedown from “Rodeo” Aaron Copland
• Musical Highlights from “Annie” Charles Strouse
• Selections from Mary Poppins Returns Lin Manuel Miranda and Marc Shaiman
• Gravitas Soon Hee Newbold
• An American Symphony from “Mr. Holland’s Opus” Michael Kamen
• Raiders March from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” John Williams

—Intermission—

• Guadalcanal March from “Victory at Sea” Richard Rodgers
• Carl Battishill, guest conductor
• The American Frontier arr. Calvin Custer  
• [The Girl I Left Behind Me, Chester, Shenandoah, O Susannah, America the Beautiful]
• Armed Forces Salute arr. Lowden
• 1812 Overture Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Stars & Stripes Forever March John Phillip Sousa

The Plymouth Community Arts Council, through the generosity of the Wilcox Foundation, is proud to support the Michigan Philharmonic’s 2026 American Salute Concert in Kellogg Park.