NEGAUNEE — Those celebrating Pioneer Days in Negaunee will be able to enjoy a concert by the city band at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Outdoor Performing Arts Center at the east end of Iron Street.

A special feature will be an alto saxophone solo, “Persuasion,” featuring Negaunee native and band president Brad Gischia.

Director Lucas Wickstrom has selected several numbers celebrating the area’s Finnish heritage: “Be Still My Soul,” a hymntune based on

Sibelius’s “Finlandia” as well as “Hiljainen Iltapaiva” (Quiet Afternoon). “Beguine Festival” has a local twist as composer Glen Osser was a Munising native who became nationally known as a composer, arranger and orchestra leader.

There will be a “Big Band Tribute” a medley saluting top notch big bands with their signature tunes, such as “String of Pearls” by Glenn Miller and others, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Count Basie.

The evening’s overture is “Thunderbolt,” a musical tribute to the P-47 Thunderbolt, one of the workhorse airplanes of World War II. Sousa will be represented with “El Capitan,” a sparkling march of the type that made him the “March King.” There will be a novelty number, “Tico Tico,” made popular in the 1940s in recordings and movies by performers such as the Andrews Sisters and Carmen Miranda.

The concert will conclude with the audience favorite, “Just a Closer Walk with Thee.”