NORTH KANSAS CITY — The Kansas City Swing Band will be offering tunes from the American Songbook from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, July 18 at North Kansas City’s Festival Pavilion in Macken Park, 3005 Howell St. All concerts are free and open to the public.

Culture writer Martin Chilton defines the term “Great American Songbook” as follows: “Tunes of Broadway musical theater, Hollywood movie musicals and Tin Pan Alley, described as the hub of songwriting that was the music publishers’ row on New York’s West 28th Street.” Chilton adds that these songs “became the core repertoire of jazz musicians” during the period that “stretched roughly from 1920 to 1960.”

The music series is sponsored by the city of North Kansas City. For more information, visit www.nkc.org or call NKC City Hall at 274-6000.