Big-Band News

McWilliams toured with Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ANDERSON, Ind. - Those planning to stage an authentic big-band concert would need to look no further for a conductor than Larry McWilliams, professor emeritus of Ball State University's School of Music.

HORTONVILLE - A musical production packed full of singing, dancing and laughs is set to open next week at the high school.

MANSFIELD -- The Ohio State University Marching Band performed Wednesday at the Renaissance Theatre, and university President E. Gordon Gee helped conduct a musical number.

Festival Miami concluded with a swinging party Friday that brought jazz greats John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton to the Miami's Gusman Concert Hall stage.

"In the Mood," a big band theatrical swing revue, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Performing Arts Center of Wisconsin Rapids, 1801 16th St.

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Don Curl, who was a four-year member of The Ohio State University Marching Band, died this week, 10TV News reported.

The Murphy Theatre presents their annual salute to veterans with the Tom Daugherty Orchestra Sunday, November 8 at 2pm .

Robert Holts Big Band concert to benefit Murrieta Veterans Memorial. Specializing in Big Band music from the 1930s through the 1960s, the Robert Holts Orchestra will perform in "A Big Band Salute to our Veterans" on Nov.

The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, a 20-member Los Angeles jazz orchestra, will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Cornell's Bailey Hall as part of the Cornell Concert Series.

THE bandleader announced "a lovely ballad from the World War II era," and the song "Waiting for the Train to Come In" emerged from the lips of a singer in a slinky black dress.

EVESHAM Arts Centre will be swinging to the sounds of the greatest of the big band leaders on Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8, when the John Wood Big band performs its tribute concert to Glenn Miller.

It was a classic, classical performance last year when the trio ETA3 performed at Trinity Concert Series.

Seven First Nations performers will gather on one stage in an event combining blues, rock, spoken word and jazz with their traditional culture.

THE Nick Ross Orchestra is to bring the Big Band Sound of the 1940s to Rotherham on Saturday, October 24, in a spectacular concert celebrating the Glenn Miller era.

Sutton Foster will star as Nurse Fay Apple in the Encores! revival of Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents' little-seen 1964 cult musical, "Anyone Can Whistle." Foster's Broadway credits include lead roles in "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "Shrek," "Young Frankenstein," "The Drowsy Chaperone" and "Little Women." Running for five performances April ...

When Butch Miles drives the band, hang on. The former drummer for the Count Basie Orchestra swings right, swings left, but mainly swings hard as he drives a big band through the charts made popular over decades by one of the best bands in the history of jazz.

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Count Basie knew how to make toes tap -- in fact he insisted upon it when leading any of his stellar bands over his long career -- and the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra plans the same for your feet.A former Basie band drummer, Butch Miles, and Winnipeg singer Gary Grosvenor will join the WJO in The Best of Basie for two shows Sunday.

The Hamilton Fine Arts Center is bringing another performing arts season packed with entertainment for the whole family.