CENTER TO SWING AT BAND CONCERT.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Bob Noval and his Big Band Orchestra will present their ``Swingin' Valentine'' performance at 8 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. . Presented by High Desert Medical Group, the show will feature big-band music made popular during the 1930s and 1940s by bands led by Count Basie, Glenn Miller Noun 1. Glenn Miller - United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944) Alton Glenn Miller, Miller , Benny Goodman Noun 1. Benny Goodman - United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) Benjamin David Goodman, Goodman, King of Swing and Duke Ellington. Honoring longtime Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley radio personality Loren Dexheimer, who died last January at age 70, the show will feature big band singer Lauren Koval along with disc jockey Chuck Cecil of ``The Swingin' Years.'' Additionally, Big Band vocalist Ned Rifken will pay a tribute to Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin. A portion of the event's proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society American Cancer Society, n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research, , in memory of Dexheimer, well known in the Antelope Valley for his radio shows, as a jazz drummer and as a disc jockey. Following a Dexheimer tradition, Noval plans on publicly acknowledging three musicians for the years they have been playing and to acknowledge them for the big band era stars they had played for. Other sponsors for the ``Swingin' Valentine'' show include Knights of Columbus Knights of Columbus, American Roman Catholic society for men, founded (1882) at New Haven, Conn. (where its headquarters are still located), by Father Michael J. McGivney. , H.W. Hunter Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep, Stan Henderson/Keller Williams Reality, Antelope Valley Florist, Carl's Automotive, Carpeteria, Jack Fry Travel, dentist Dr. Andre Kanarki, MicroWest Computer Services and Scimonetti's Woodwind & Brass. All seats are $25. For tickets or more information, contact the Lancaster Performing Arts Center box office at (661) 723-5950. |
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