Overkill bassist D.D. Verni has swapped his four strings for six, handling guitar and lead vocals with his new swing band D.D. Verni and the Cadillac Band. A music video for the first single, ...
Swing bands, and the couples who moved across the dance floor to those popular tunes, ruled the roost in Westchester in the 1930s and 1940s, with hundreds of dancers showing up for a night out at Glen ...
Jules Bashkin may be 96, but that’s not why the group he plays sax with is called the Survivors Swing Band. “We seem to think of it not so much that we’re the survivors but that the music has survived ...
Featuring an All-Star Lineup: Hannah Gill, Queen Esther, Gabe Terraccciano, Alphonso Horne, Justin Poindexter, Gordon Webster, Patrick Soluri, and more. As a relatively new group founded in 2018, the ...
The Swing Solution was first formed in February 1990 under the name The Cupertino Swing Band. Its founder and first leader was Eldred Clark, who had previously started The Serenaders in the late 1960s ...
An Oregon band is preserving the swing jazz tunes that brought a semblance of normality to the thousands of families trapped behind barbed wire at the Minidoka prison camp in Idaho during World War II ...
The Massillon Tiger Swing Band will perform a piece composed by Sammy Nestico for a documentary about the composer. The band will debut the song - "We Can Do It (if we try) - during the halftime show ...
The Legends of Western Swing Music Festival began in Canton, Texas, in 1987 on a single stage. Boy has it grown ever since, said producer Gloria Miers. “We’ve been going a long time, and we are sort ...
Lindauer, a resident of Cochran's Crossing in The Woodlands and member of The Swing Kings band, has been spending his free time as a musician for most of his life. After playing with the Swing Kings ...
In 1970, singer and guitarist Ray Benson formed Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel while farmsitting in the tiny town of Paw Paw, West Virginia – a stretch, both physically and conceptually, from ...