With a big band orchestra, singers and swing dancers, IN THE MOOD, is the retro 1940's musical that brings to the stage the music that moved a nation's spirit and helped win a war. More than a concert ...

It was a great time in the country’s history. World War II was over. The music was jazzy, brassy, upbeat and swing. And it was as if the whole nation was tuned in to the same sound. The bands were big ...

Shirley McMarlin Friday, April 15, 2022 1:31 p.m. | Friday, April 15, 2022 1:31 p.m. For 24 years, Neon Swing X-perience has been jumpin’ and jivin’ across area stages, playing a lively blend of ...

A brassy tribute to the 1940s swing era, “In The Mood,” is a big-band music revue that has been touring all over the world — and now, in its 21st year the show makes its first stopover in New Orleans ...

Just days ago, she was rubbing elbows with music industry elites at the 2023 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Now, Broadway and opera star N’Kenge is in Whitefish rehearsing with Alpine Theatre Project ...

Ask a music geek or a historian and they will probably tell you that the big-band era that was born with radio relay of the Benny Goodman band at L.A.'s Palomar Ballroom on Aug. 21, 1935, ended some ...

Swing Fever performs a free concert at the Kutztown Park bandshell rain or shine from 7 to 9 p.m. on July 22. The 17-piece band with vocalists has been entertaining for 34-plus years, featuring songs ...

FRIDAY'S "BATTLE of the Big Bands" -- the last of three free summer concerts that the Weekend section is sponsoring at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre -- is actually less all-out battle than all-out ...

Blues and jazz gave birth to swing music, and Colorado played a role in that development. The music was nurtured in the state by Glenn Miller, who began his musical exploration in Fort Morgan, as well ...