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Dan Gabel and His Orchestra, featuring award-winning vocalist Kimberly Hawkey, will be providing big band time-travel with 18 musicians on stage playing the hits of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey ...
A new Country Music Mondays series and Pumpkin Patch weekend concerts help grow the season to 29 concerts under the tent on ...
Tommy Dorsey, “The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing,” was a ... probably the most famous of all, “Marie.” With the band singing ...
Here are our top things to do this weekend and next week in Southwest Florida, including Record Store Day and Celebrate ...
“As a kid, my summer job was playing concerts with my dad,” the 34-year-old vocalist, composer and ... “Beat ‘Em Bucs,” and toured with Tommy Dorsey. “Jazz was always coming from ...
Singer David Allyn joined Jack Teagarden's band in early 1940—just months after Frank Sinatra began singing with Tommy Dorsey. Both singers learned a great deal about phrasing from their trombonist ...
The kick-off on April 7 with the Jack Schantz Jazz Unit featuring vocalist Barbara Rosene ... the Akron Symphony and the Blossom Festival Band among others, and traveled with the Tommy Dorsey ...
Tommy Dorsey was also noted as an eagle ... during the final two years of the war, when pop vocalists began to thrive and prosper. In the big band age, singers were usually added to augment ...
Working with the likes of Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins, Pérez Prado, and Roger Whitaker, Gabriel produced six Grammy-winning albums (including Tommy ... lead singer and songwriter for the band ...
In this episode, Ken Curtis better known for playing Festus on Gunsmoke sings. Curtis was a big band vocalist with such bands as the Tommy Dorsey Band before he became an actor.