Andy Stein's Blue Four to perform in outdoor concert!

Paul Lustig Dunkel, Music Director and Conductor, and the Westchester Philharmonic continue Midsummer Music at Lasdon Park and Arboreteum with jazz featuring Andy Stein's Blue Four. This series of outdoor concerts scheduled at the picturesque Park has drawn nearly 1,000 picnicking families and friends listening to music from Mozart to traditional Irish. ?We finally have an opportunity to play in the backyard of our Northern Westchester neighbors, and we are enjoying it tremendously,? remarked Maestro Dunkel. ?In fact much of our audience at Lasdon is new to the Westchester Philharmonic. Our hope is that more first-time concert goers will join us for music in this beautiful and relaxed setting.?

Midsummer Music with the Westchester Philharmonic is presented in cooperation with the Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation and Preservation and continues on July 23 when Andy Stein?s Blue Four takes the stage in an evening of jazz with violinist Andy Stein and his outstanding musicians: Scott Robinson, reeds; Matt Munisteri, guitar; and Conal Fowkes, piano.

The Park will open at 5 pm for pre-concert picnicking. Performances will begin at 6 pm. Concert-goers should bring picnic blankets and folding chairs. Tickets are $10 for adults and for $5 children (18 and under). There is a 20% discount on single tickets for Somers residents with ID.

Lasdon Park is located on Route 35 in Somers, NY. Parking is approximately 1/3 mile from the concert area. Shuttle bus transportation and handicapped parking are available. No pets allowed. No ball or Frisbee playing allowed inside the gates. In the event of a cancellation due to rain, rain checks will be made available and are good for any other Midsummer Music 2005 concert.

For advance tickets and more information contact the Westchester Philharmonic at (914) 682-3707 ext. 10.

About Andy Stein?s Blue Four
Andy Stein is an eclectic musician with a 35-year career spanning Rock ?n? Roll, Country, Jazz, and Classical. He has performed major concertos with orchestras in New York, Chicago, New England and the South, toured China with a string quartet, and recorded with Itzhak Perlman, Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, and Frederica Von Stade. Andy first entered the popular music field as a founding member of Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen where his distinctive style on violin and saxophone added a swing element to this beloved rock ?n? roll band of the early ?70?s. For thirteen straight years his violin and saxophone could be heard weekly on public radio nationwide in the house band of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. He now appears frequently on the show as a special guest.

With this group, Blue Four, Andy fulfills a lifelong dream of merging his two favorite musical activities: playing Swing and playing Chamber Music. This combination of violin, guitar, piano, and a reed player (doubling everything from clarinet to the lowest saxophone) creates a true Jazz-Chamber Music sound. In this group everyone takes a turn at being the soloist and everyone is in the rhythm section, following a chamber music tradition that dates back at least 300 years. This sound was first explored by the late great Joe Venuti to whom Stein has dedicated his latest disk. A hand-picked group of some of the finest creative and historically knowledgeable musicians on the scene today, Blue Four shares with audiences the sense of humor and fun that was so much a part of the music of that era.