The Grand Finale of the Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival is an incredible undertaking - 12 ensembles over 90 minutes, showcasing some of the festival's best talent, with each group giving their all as they bid "so long" - until next year!
Performing for us:
The Midiri Brothers Septet
Terry Myers Quartet with Jaimie Roberts
Bruce Innes Trio
Sun Valley All Stars with Brady McKay
Carolyn Martin Swing Band
Yale Whiffenpoofs
Cocuzzi Quartet
Cornet Chop Suey
Black Swan Classic Jazz Band with Marilyn Keller
Two Tone Steiny & The Cadillacs
Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles
Yve Evans with Jason Wanner
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain
America, America, God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea
O beautiful for Pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat, across the wilderness
America, America, God mend thine every flaw
Confirm thy soul in self control, Thy liberty in law
O beautiful for heroes proved, in liberating strife
Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life
America, America, May God they gold refine
Till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine
O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears
America, America, God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea
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