Today's Karl King Band

The Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge, Iowa

The Karl King Band is the municipal band for Fort Dodge, Iowa. This ensemble has historically provided a summer concert series in the Karl King Bandshell in beautiful Oleson Park and an indoor concert series held in the auditorium of Iowa Central Community College. These concerts are free to all, and are provided as a service by the City of Fort Dodge. Jerrold P. Jimmerson is the Director of the King Band, and Dr. David Klee serves as the band's Assistant Conductor. Learn more about the Band and visit the online archive of photos related to the history of the Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge, Iowa.

The KING BAND has concluded the 2014 SUMMER SEASON.

See photos from the June 8th program.  - June 15th concert photos - June 22nd concert photos

July 6th program -- July 13th program -- July 20 program -- July 27 program



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Follow the KING BAND next season.

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The 2014 Winter Concert Series
February 21 Concert -- March 16 Concert -- April 6 Scholarship Concert

The 2013 Winter and Summer Concert Series
May be viewed in our Concert Archive

THE KARL L. KING MUNICIPAL BAND
OF FORT DODGE, IOWA
   acknowledges with great appreciation
the significant contributions of
DUANE "OLEY" OLSON
to the band's history, heritage and tradition.

EUPHONIUM PLAYER AND SOLOIST
1947-2012 65 years

CONCERT ANNOUNCER
1955-2011 56 years

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD/BAND MANAGER
1977-2008    31 years

PRESENTED July 2012

T.H. Hoefing and Jerrold Jimmerson recently presented an award plaque to Oley Olson commemorating his long participation in the Karl King Band and his lifetime of dedication to extending the legacy of Karl King. The Band and the entire community of followers of the Karl King Band extend congratulations to both Oley and Nancy Olson.

View a video of the band performing Karl King's march, Bon Voyage. (60 MB mpeg format)

View photos of the bandshell during the renovation process.

View concert photos from previous seasons
Concert Archive

2012 Karl L. King Band Municipal Band of Fort Dodge, Iowa
The Karl L. King Municipal Band was honored by the Iowa Bandmasters Association by being selected to perform at their 80th annual State Conference. This three-day event featured some of the finest school and professional bands from throughout Iowa, along with clinicians and other performing groups from throughout the United States. The conference was held at the Hotel Fort Des Moines, in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. - more -

Dr. Mike Golemo, several times guest conductor at the summer concerts

Fort Dodge’s newest monument was dedicated in a ceremony held October 22, 2006. The life-size monument to famed band composer and director, Karl L. King, was placed in the Karl L. King Park in downtown Fort Dodge and was first seen by the public following an open house of the Karl King Archives.
The dedication ceremony included a program by the Karl L. King Municipal Band and the introduction of special guests and an address by former Fort Dodge mayor, Judge Albert Habhab. - program photos -2006 Open House

Statue proposed - Statue in progress - Statue mounting process - Dedication speakers - Dedication program

Deann Haden-Luke's original musical that uses
Karl King music has been published!

View Cardiff information on the Heuer Publishing website.

Cardiff Announcement Cardiff 2006 Premiere


What's New with the Band? The Karl King Band was the featured performing ensemble for the 2006 Summer Meet of Windjammers, Unlimited. - photos -		Scholarships awarded by the Karl King Band were announced at the 2014 Scholarship Concert.


The Karl King Band performed in the Iowa State Capitol to promote a postage stamp in his honor.		Iowa Public Radio's Rick Fredericksen interviews Oley about Karl King.

Those with fast internet will enjoy an mpg video of McNamara's Band (56 mb) from last winter's Irish Concert.

USAToday featured the Karl King Band in an article published March 29, 2009.

Read an article from the Albert Lea Tribune about the statue of Karl King.

View photos of previous concert seasons.

The Iowa Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has included the Karl King Bandshell in a list of Iowa's most significant structures. Iowa Public Television has produced and aired a 40 minute excerpt from its 2 hour documentary featuring those structures, entitled A Century of Iowa Architecture. The entire documentary was shown in the spring of 2005.

The band has acquired an equipment vehicle.

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Dr. Timothy Rhea, director of bands at Texas A & M University
in College Station, was the special guest conductor for this summer's June 24 concert.

You can download and view two short videos of Karl King's The Walking Frog galop performed this last winter by the Karl King Band. They are in .mov format (Quicktime) and each is about 8 MB in size.

Walking Frog excerpt 1 - Walking Frog excerpt 2

New information and photos of Carl Quist, first director of the band now known as the Karl King Band have recently been received from Mr. Quist's grandson and are archived on this website.

Download a short mpg clip of the July 6, 2003, finale of Stars and Stripes Forever (3 MB .mpg).

Download a short mpg clip of the King Band playing Americans We (1.4 MB .mpg).

This page is available as KarlKingBand.org


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