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Contemporary swing bands

#1 Post by straycat » Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:10 am

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

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#2 Post by JesseMiner » Sat Jan 23, 2010 10:47 am

Bernard Berkhout's Swing Orchestra from The Netherlands!

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#3 Post by Haydn » Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:35 am

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?

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#4 Post by Campus Five » Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:46 am

We'd love to come back to the UK!

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#5 Post by trev » Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:20 pm

Red Hot Rhythmakers would be my Australian band of choice. The leader will be in the UK later this year anyway.

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#6 Post by straycat » Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:11 am

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.

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#7 Post by LazyP » Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:12 am

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.

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