35th Anniversary Season
The Music of America — 35
Thirty-five years of the same four voices, celebrating the best American music from the 1940s through today. Pop vocals, close harmony and comic timing built over nearly 4,000 shows.
Formats
The show flexes to the slot you need to fill.
| Format | Runs | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 45 minutes | 45 min | Corporate programmes, after-dinner slots, conference sessions, festival stage slots |
| 60 minutes | 60 min | A fuller single set where the schedule allows it |
| 75 minutes straight through | 75 min, no break | Evening programmes with no room for an intermission |
| 90 minutes straight through | 90 min, no break | A full evening in one continuous performance |
| Two 45-minute sets | 90 min + intermission | The standard performing arts centre evening — and what the fairs and festivals asked for in 2026 |
Two hours is the ceiling, and a two-hour performance is always split. Four voices carry every minute with no instrumental section to rest behind, so the limit protects the show rather than shortening it.
Where it works
Fairs and festivals
Main stage and grandstand. The show has carried outdoor audiences of 1,000 to 2,000 on its own PA, so a grandstand is familiar ground rather than a stretch. In 2026 the fairs and festivals that booked this show asked for two 45-minute sets, and it went over well.
Performing arts centres and theatres
A full evening in the standard two-set format, with an anniversary hook your marketing team can actually use locally. 37 Michigan performing arts centers have booked this group — the odds are good that a colleague of yours is one of them.
Conventions and conferences
General sessions, opening and closing events, and awards nights. A 45-minute set fits a programme without dominating it.
Corporate entertainment
Holiday parties, client events and leadership meetings. Clean content, stated plainly, so nobody has to take a risk on your behalf.
Reviewed at a fair
What a newspaper made of it
The Sun Times News covered the show at the Saline Community Fair on 30 August 2025 — a fair audience, a fair stage, an outside reviewer.
“Whether singing classic songs everyone knew or tributes to the men and women in the military, the guys sang from their hearts.”
The Sun Times News
“The stunning, emotional highlight of the night.”
The Sun Times News, on “A Hero’s Prayer”
On opening for Jay Leno on part of his West Coast tour, the paper reported Leno’s reason for picking the group: “Being from Michigan, I knew I would be hearing some Motown.”
The two-act show
What a night actually looks like
This is the Saline Fair programme, as it ran — one hour and forty-five minutes across two acts. It is a useful shape to picture, whether or not your date runs the same way.
Act I — get them in the room
Opens up-tempo with songs the audience already knows. A choreographed Motown turn on “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg.” A classic country medley from the bass. A full-crowd sing-along on “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
Closes on “A Hero’s Prayer” — written by a Vietnam-era Navy veteran for the people he served with. It is the moment the room goes quiet.
Act II — salute, then send them home singing
Opens with a salute to the four service branches, veterans of each asked to stand and be recognised. Then “In Color,” “America The Beautiful,” and a run through the songbook — Jimmy Dean, and “The Rainbow Connection” from the tenor.
Ends on “Sweet Caroline” and “God Bless The U.S.A.” with the crowd on its feet.
The Salute to the Services segment can be built up or left out depending on your event. It is a natural fit for Memorial Day, Independence Day, veterans programming and county fairs.
Why a presenter can say yes to this
Book the 35th season
The 35th anniversary season is being booked now, and we are taking 2028 dates alongside it. Presenters working 12 to 18 months ahead are exactly who we want to hear from.
Written by the group
Two originals from the show
Not every group on a presenter’s list writes its own material. These two are the group’s own, recorded on Listen to the Music and still in the set.
One-minute previews.