For a second year, the Lawrence City Band’s summer concert series will conclude without the boom of a cannon. Still, bombs will burst in the sky above.

Until last year, the City Band’s final summer concert included a cannon fired during its performance of the “1812 Overture.” Citing sequestration cuts imposed by Congress in 2013, the Kansas National Guard, which supplied the cannons, told the band last year it could not provide cannons for the concert.

Robert Foster, the City Band’s conductor and musical director, said the Kansas National Guard again denied this year’s request. A bass drum again will supplant the cannons’ role while fireworks exploded nearby.

“Since there’s no cannon, we looked for some with particularly loud booms,” Foster said.

The eighth performance of the South Park concert series that began in late May, Wednesday’s finale has the band performing in unseasonably cool temperatures that have dipped below the 70s.

“It’s been a great summer,” Foster said. “Great weather. It could hardly get nicer these last few weeks. Lawrence is a great place for these concerts.”

Still, Foster would like to return the cannons — a staple of the series since the late 1980s — to the City Band’s annual rendition of the “1812 Overture.” He said he’s seen performances by the Kansas City Symphony using cannons, and Foster expected at least some of the sequestration cutbacks to have been recovered by now.

“We’ve got to get them back to Lawrence,” Foster said.