You're listening to the John and Heidi Show Bonus Hour. If you miss any
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Show on a Tuesday. We've got a very exciting day today, going to
be visiting with Shawn Johnson from the Big Band Experience. He'll be in Sue
Falls tonight. If you haven't had a chance to get tickets, do it
right away against second annual Faith Temple Food Giveaway fundraiser happening tonight at the District
in Sue Falls. And this is an organization that does so much for so
many Faith Temple Food Giveaway every Friday, and we talk about it on the
radio all the time. Been there to help only once, but boy,
it's a great organization. I need to get back and do it again.
If you'd like to help every Friday, they're looking for people to help out.
It's at the Fairgrounds and they do an amazing job. And you can
help out tonight by coming out and having some dinner and enjoying a concert.
And again we're gonna be visiting once again with Shawn Johnson. We had him
on the program last week, but it is tonight, so we're chatting again,
coming up here in just a bit. Also, tomorrow is a Wednesday.
We're gonna have not one, but two people that were going to be
winning tomorrow. One person will win some tickets to Whitney Cummings this Saturday,
April twenty ninth at eight o'clock, and somebody else will win tickets to Williams
and Ree this Friday, April twenty eighth at eight o'clock, both of them
part of Comedy Weekend at Grand Falls Casino and Golf Resort. And there's another
comedy Weekend in the works right now for this October. They've already announced one
of the comedians, that is Howie Mandel, that's going to be on the
Saturday Friday night. They've got a really cool comic book. I can't tell
you who it is. I've been sworn to secrecy. I had to sign
my name in blood. Okay I didn't have to do that, but I
did say I promise I won't tell anybody. So you could call me,
you can beg you could hit me in the knee with a hammer. I'm
not going to tell you who it is. But we'll tell you next week
because that's when we announced, but again comedy Weekend in October. But there's
a comedy weekend this weekend as well, and you can win tickets for this
weekend right now at Sunny radio dot com. Sign up there again. Friday
Night Williams and Ree, Saturday Night Whitney Cummings, very very funny comedians.
Both of those nights going to be so much fun. All of that at
Grandfall's Casino and Golf Resort. And we're going to put a link to win
the tickets. If you haven't seen it yet, I'll throw a link to
that at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook dot com slash Sue Falls
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John and Heidi Show Bonus Hour on a Tuesday. Our guest today Sean Johnson
with the Sean Johnson Big Band Experience, also with Tonic Solfa. Sean is
going to be in town tonight for a fundraiser for the Faith Temple Food Giveway,
an amazing organization. Sean, how long have you been performing professionally now?
Yeah, we started performing right out of college. I went to school
in Minnesota. We formed an acapella group called Tonic Solfa at the time,
and then a couple of years ago, I'm still doing Toni Solva, but
to also split my time with a charitable it's actually a big band, and
I was trying to raise money for charity doing something with music, but it
has grown so much. But now I split my time between Tonic Solva and
this big band. And you're going to be in Sioux Falls tonight and it's
with the Big Band Experience, right. It is the big band. We've
been traveling around the country. We have done shows in Si Falls of pavilion
and such, so let's be a exciting change of venue for us. One
of the other gentlemen in Tonic Solva. His name is Teo. He plays
piano in the big Band Experience, so we get to see each other's face
as doubly as much. And we've just been traveling around the country for the
last couple of years building this as well. It's kind of interesting because I
always love big brand, but I didn't know really much about big band music,
so I'm also learning as I travel. It's just going to be an
amazing time and I'm super excited to be in Two Falls, which is now
my hometown. That's awesome, and I'm excited for tonight because I love the
way you guys do the big band experience. You take this music, this
classic, amazing, almost one hundred year old music, and you put your
fresh spin on it to make it sound brand new, fresh and just amazing.
So I love what you do. Well, thank you. I think
when we started, we wanted to basically make all of our influences into this
sort of big band sound and make sure that we had musicians from all over
so we have a lot of different tastes, whether it be gospel or country
or rock and kind of blend all that together with big band. And we
definitely didn't think we could really sing like Sinatra, So we're like, we'd
better put our own stamp on this, all of our own individual type music
that's still Russ on those shoulders, but hopefully has a new twist. So
when you're doing this and you're out performing, how different is it when you're
doing the big band experience compared to Tonic Solfa. Is it quite a different
experience getting ready for a show. Oh, it's crazily different. Like at
Christmas sometimes we do back to back shows, so I have to first of
all, remember two different shows. But the other interesting thing is there's two
different languages like acapella when we're talking about how to arrange a song, what
we're singing, or these musicians that I've now tour with, the big bands,
that our university professors and have traveled with all these other luminaries. It's
kind of a crazy different way of speaking. So I'm learning so much.
And also they don't really cross over. Tonic Solfa has its own crowd,
its own fans, and big band is starting to grow and have its own
crowd and its sound bands, And you get to perform and I think different
places than I've ever done I've never done a club with Tonic Solva. I've
never been overseas with Toni Solva, but with big band we have done that
and continue to now do shows with orchestras. So yeah, definitely different on
many levels. And I suppose as far as like setting up for a show.
When it's the big band, there's a lot of instruments and a lot
of mics and to be connected for that, but Tonic Solfa, it's just
you know, a couple of guys and a couple of microphones, and as
simple as they're trying to make that out, I know that's very complex as
well, isn't it. Yeah, you know, we always wanted to entertain.
I think in both groups it's sort of the thing that I want to
do is take people on some sort of journey, you know, ups and
downs, and take them away from whatever they have had to deal with that
day. And I think whether it was Toni Sola or whether now a big
band, you know, we were always using a lot of technology. We're
always bringing in special guests, We're always trying to make it crazier. So
yeah, we probably could have simplified the acadella version, But now I could
even go crazier. So it's been really interesting all the different instruments and all
the different parts of both of those shows. Again tonight in Sue Falls the
second Annual Faith Temple Food Giveaway fundraiser. It's a gala dinner and concert featuring
music from the Gentleman we're talking to right now, Sean Johnson and the Big
Band Experience, and we're helping raise money for the Faith Temple Food Giveaway.
It's an amazing organization, and Sean, thank you for helping to raise money
for them. Well, thank you. I always just happy to be asked.
They said, tickets are selling extremely well, so that's fantastic, and
we just want to raise as much money we're possible. I took a deep
dive into what they do and it was crazy how many people they're helping and
how much food they give away. But to do that, of course,
you've got to raise money. So if I can be a tiny part of
that, I'm all in. Absolutely. I look forward to seeing you tonight.
Thank you so much for your time this morning. Yeah, thank you
again. The second Annual Faith Temple Food Giveaway fundraiser. It is tonight six
thirty pm at the District in Sioux Falls. It's a gala and a dinner
and a concert and you'll hear music from the gentleman We've just been talking to
mister Sean Johnson and the big band. Experience all of the details at Facebook
dot com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook dot com slash Sue Falls News. Did
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It was on this day, April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy three,
construction crews began removing the street on Phillips Avenue between ninth and eleventh to make
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