Big Band is back with some favourite songs.THE Phil Dando Big Band and Singersare to return to Blackwood Miners' Institute later this month. The big band will be in town on Tuesday, March 24, playing the music of legends Glenn Miller Noun 1. Glenn Miller - United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944) Alton Glenn Miller, Miller , TommyDorsey,Duke Ellington and more. The 15-piece swing band consists of five saxophones, four trumpets, piano, bass, drums, vocalists Brian Crane Brian Crane is the cartoonist who created the comic strip Pickles. He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 2001[1]) for his work on the strip. Mr. and Heather Castle and Phil himself on trombone trombone [Ital.,=large trumpet], brass wind musical instrument of cylindrical bore, twice bent on itself, having a sliding section that lengthens or shortens it and thus regulates the pitch. The descendant of the sackbut, it was developed in the 15th cent. . Male vocals are drawn from the libraries of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Michael Buble, Bobby Darren, Dean Martin and Matt Monro and from their female vocalist comes a range of songs from Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Shirley Bassey and many others. The big band style enjoyed something of a revival recently with even The X Factor joining in by dedicating a whole week's show in memory of the era. Tickets cost pounds 10 and are available from the box office on 01495 227206. |
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