Contemporary swing bands
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Contemporary swing bands
We've had a request from some local festival organisers, who are interested in booking good contemporary (proper) swing bands for an upcoming event, and are quite happy to get them in from overseas.
As you can probably imagine, this is music to our ears.
There are a few obvious names that come to mind, but I thought this might be a good one to throw on to this forum - who would you recommend if you were in our position?
Thanks,
Andy
As you can probably imagine, this is music to our ears.
There are a few obvious names that come to mind, but I thought this might be a good one to throw on to this forum - who would you recommend if you were in our position?
Thanks,
Andy
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My boys and I have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating!
--Count Basie
www.campusfive.com
www.myspace.com/campusfive
www.swingguitar.blogspot.com
Red Hot Rhythmakers would be my Australian band of choice. The leader will be in the UK later this year anyway.
No preference has been stated as far as I'm aware. We just don't want to feed them any neo band names or the like.Haydn wrote:Do you mean bands playing 30s/40s songs, or their own original music, or is there no preference either way?straycat wrote:local festival organisers ... are interested in booking good contemporary (proper) swing bands for an upcoming event
Gunhild Carling's band from Sweden are excellent! They have played for dancers at Herrang, London Balboa festival etc. Also touring around the world playing jazz festivals, so what you get is really high quality.
http://www.gunhildcarling.net/
http://www.gunhildcarling.net/
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