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Contemporary swing bands

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:10 am
by straycat
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

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 10:47 am
by JesseMiner
Bernard Berkhout's Swing Orchestra from The Netherlands!

Jesse

Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:35 am
by Haydn
straycat wrote:local festival organisers ... are interested in booking good contemporary (proper) swing bands for an upcoming event
Do you mean bands playing 30s/40s songs, or their own original music, or is there no preference either way?

Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:46 am
by Campus Five
We'd love to come back to the UK!

www.campusfive.com

Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:20 pm
by trev
Red Hot Rhythmakers would be my Australian band of choice. The leader will be in the UK later this year anyway.

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:11 am
by straycat
Haydn wrote:
straycat wrote:local festival organisers ... are interested in booking good contemporary (proper) swing bands for an upcoming event
Do you mean bands playing 30s/40s songs, or their own original music, or is there no preference either way?
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:12 am
by LazyP
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/