Stolen Sweets will perform twice during the Oregon Coast Music Festival. Contributed Photo

Community Concert Band

This local ensemble performs every year at the festival. Under the direction of Mark Allen, the 50-piece band will perform a tribute to the armed forces by playing “Semper Paratus” and “Military Suite.”

Other tunes include “Chester” by William Schuman, “Bugler’s Holiday,” by Leroy Anderson and Mendelssohn’s concerto, arranged by Charles Koff and featuring trumpeter Wilbur Jensen. As usual, the band will finish with a John Philip Sousa march, “Black Horse Troop.”

Three other groups will perform at the festival opener: Streptocarpus, a local acid/jazz combo; Soulpie, a local blues group; and Taarka, a gypsy/Balkan funk band from Boulder, Colo., led by Enion Pelta-Tiller and David Tiller.

• noon, Saturday, July 12

Mingus Park

Free

The T Club

The T Club, a Eugene band, describes its music as positive reggae-influenced dance music, according to a press release. The T Club’s eight members fuse together dance rhythms, positive vocals, Eastern percussion and West Coast reggae.

• 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 15

Waxer’s Rock Hall

226. S. Broadway, Coos Bay

$15 ($13 members, $5 students)

Gypsy Soul

Gypsy Soul plays atmospheric acoustic rock with Celtic and Americana roots with ethereal vocals by Cilette Swann, according to a press release. The duo has produced eight albums and sold more than 100,000 records, reaching the adult contemporary charts. The band’s songs have also been featured in several television shows.

• 7 p.m., Wednesday, July 16

Rogers Zoo

2037 Sherman Ave., North Bend

$15 ($13 members, $5 students)

Dale Inskeep Band

Dale Inskeep describes his musical genre as surf country, something that wouldn’t fit on hit country radio, according to a press release. The Dale Inskeep Band includes Carmen Matthews on bass, Dave Ford on electric/acoustic guitar, Danny Richardson on drums, Tom Beckstrom on percussion and Inskeep on acoustic guitar.

• 7 p.m., Thursday, July 17

Hightide Cafe

91124 Cape Arago Highway, Charleston

Free

Stephanie Schneiderman

Portland artist Stephanie Schneiderman has amassed a diverse body of work that includes five solo albums, two collaborative albums, three acclaimed children’s records, several acting roles and the production of a concert series to benefit refugees in Uganda. Her collaborative project, Dirty Martini, a Crosby, Stills and Nash-styled girl group, is one of Portland’s buzz bands, according to a press release.

• 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 18

The Mill Casino-Hotel

3201 Tremont Ave., North Bend

$15 ($13 members, $5 students)

A Snowball’s Chance

This local jazz band brings a youthful spin to jazz classics and original tunes.

• noon, Saturday, July 19

Shore Acres State Park; Free

Molly’s Revenge

Molly’s Revenge is an acoustic Celtic band that combines bagpipes, whistle, fiddle and song, set against a backdrop of guitar, bouzouki, and mandola accompaniment. Their arrangements modernize traditional Celtic jigs and reels.

• 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 19

Egyptian Theatre

229 S. Broadway, Coos Bay

$15 ($13 members, $5 students)

George Whitty & Friends

George Whitty is a keyboardist, Emmy-nominated composer, Grammy-winning producer and mix engineer. As a pianist and synthesist, he’s spent 15 years playing live with the Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Richard Bona, Chaka Khan and others. He has worked on recordings by dozens of artists including Celine Dion and Santana. As a producer, he has produced four Grammy-winning records for Chaka Khan and the Brecker Brothers. As a composer, he’s written for hundreds of episodes of television.

• 2 p.m., Sunday, July 20

Oregon Institute of Marine Biology Boathouse

63466 Boat Basin Road, Charleston

$25

Stolen Sweets

The Stolen Sweets play music from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. The band initially formed to revive the songs of the Boswell Sisters, a ’30s trio known for auspicious, good-humored music that Depression-era listeners found uplifting. The band comprises vocalists Jen Bernard, Lara Michell and Erin Sutherland, guitarist-singers Pete Krebs and David Langenes and double bass player Keith Brush. Their arrangements are inspired by the Boswells’ tight three-part harmonies and frequent tempo changes, but instead of piano, clarinet, and horns, the Sweets incorporate what they describe as gypsy jazz accompaniment. The band performs at clubs and festivals all over the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

• Jazz at Jardin’s

6 p.m., Wednesday, July 23

Black Market Gourmet

495 Central Ave., Coos Bay

$75

• Salsa and balboa dancing

10 p.m., Thursday, July 24

The Mill Casino-Hotel

3201 Tremont Ave., North Bend

$20

Festival Orchestra

The Festival Orchestra is a remarkable assembly of regional, national and international musicians, many of whom have joined this festival for decades, under the direction of James Paul for two concerts and Jason Klein for a Pops concert.

The first orchestra concert also will include pieces by Copland, Barber, Bernstein and Dvorak.

“Gypped” is the theme of the Pops concert. Klein will lead the orchestra in performances of several gypsy-inspired tunes, including selections from “Gypsy.”

The featured guest is pianist Jon Nakamatsu, who has played with orchestras all over the world, as well as at the White House. The orchestra will support Nakamatsu on a Rachmaninofff concerto in the second orchestra concert.

• Concert I: 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 22

• Pops: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 24

• Concert II: 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 26

Marshfield Auditorium

10th and Ingersoll, Coos Bay

$20 ($18 members, $8 students)

Festival Chamber Players

Four members of the Festival Orchestra will perform a piano and strings concert featuring selections by Mozart and Beethoven. The quartet comprises Karen Hilley on violin, Michelle Matthewson on viola, David Chinburg on cello and local pianist Ida Jo Gates.

• 7 p.m., Friday, July 25

Emmanuel Episcopal Church

400 Highland Ave., Coos Bay

$15 ($13 members, $5 students)