Brown Bag Concert Features Myers and Liger

Ron Myers and John Liger are the featured musicians at this Wednesday’s Brown Bag Concert.

The Brown Bag Concert begins at 12 noon and end at 12:30 p.m.

Admission is free although donations are received which fund an annual music scholarship for an Orcas Island music student. Everyone is invited to bring a brown bag lunch and eat on the lawn following the concerts.

Ron Myers began his musical training at age six and continues to the present. He has studied, performed and excelled as a solo pianist, accompanist and teacher. At age 18 he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and also began a very successful and distinguished career flying sophisticated aircraft.

His consummate skills as a pilot with a “can-do” attitude kept him very busy with increasing responsibility, promotions and travel. During his Air Force career, Ron was able to pursue his love of music with many opportunities to play piano in dance bands, combos and as a featured soloist wherever he was stationed long enough for anybody to discover he was there, as his reputation increasingly preceded him.

When Ron and wife Jo officially retired and moved to Orcas Island in 1992, his mastery of the piano was soon discovered and eagerly sought for accompaniment of several musical shows produced at the Orcas Center, and for his teaching skills.

John Liger started to singing “Home on the Range” at age three out on the sidewalk at the top of his lungs. He grew up with classical and gospel music, his dad a professional singer on the radio, accompanied by his mom a talented pianist. John discovered jazz at age 16 and began singing in choirs and quartets. After graduation from college, music was put aside for other professional pursuits. He served his country as a Navy carrier pilot, an engineer at Boeing and later started several diversified and successful businesses of his own.

The desire to entertain was always there but a demanding schedule somehow got in the way until 20 some years ago when he devoted himself full-time to music. He has appeared on stage in shows, on radio, at weddings, parties, and clubs. He was also involved with “Those Guys from Orcas.” With “Music from the Heart” he has demonstrated a unique versatility in many musical genre. Blessed with an extraordinary vocal range, excellent pitch, big lungs, talented coaches and outstanding role models, he is an outstanding singer with a beautiful voice and a talented pianist who unique arrangements are a pleasure to hear.

The Program:

• Blues in the Night
• Moonlight in Vermont
• My Lean Baby
• New York State of Mind
• Papa Can You Hear Me
• Makin’ Whoopee
• Where do you Start
• The Hippopotamus
• A House is not a Home

June 27th, 2013