NEGAUNEE — This week’s Negaunee City Band concert will celebrate Pioneer Week with works by several local composers. To avoid conflicting with other events, the concert will be as usual on Wednesday but will begin half an hour earlier at 7 p.m., at the Outdoor Performing Arts Center at the east end of Iron Street.

Brandon Nelson’s works will be featured, including “Intrada Americana,” which Nelson describes as “a rousing opener for concert band; we hear many familiar patriotic songs and folk tunes woven together….” The band will also play “Sawyer Heritage,” written with frequent use of the Air Force Hymn as a tribute to the men and women who served at K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base. “The City Built on the Shining Hill” is another Nelson work, dedicated to people with “sisu” who work in difficult circumstances for a bright future.

“Pioneer March” by Eino Olander, a longtime local resident who passed away in 2015, is one of more than 15 marches he composed, many of them performed by both the Negaunee and Marquette city bands.

There are several selections that will be familiar to the audience: “Pirates of the Caribbean (Symphonic Suite)” from the blockbuster 2003 movie as well as “Mancini,” which includes “Moon River,” “Baby Elephant Walk,” and “Hatari.”

“The Hounds of Spring” is a classic overture for concert band which opens and closes with a “rambunctious romp” bookending a pastoral interlude. The closing overture is “The Golden West” by Herman A. Hummel. As usual, the evening will conclude with “Just a Closer Walk with Thee.”