This June the Nick Ross Orchestra brings the Big Band Sound of the 1940s to East Lothian with a concert celebrating Glenn Miller and the 1940s & 50s Big Band era.
With a full line-up of saxophones, trumpets, trombones, a rhythm section and special guest vocalists Georgina Jackson and Sam Merrick, the Nick Ross Orchestra will recreate the wonderful sound of Big Bands including those led by Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey and Syd Lawrence.
Featuring such numbers as Moonlight Serenade, In the Mood, A String of Pearls, Brown Jug, and American Patrol, memories of wartime and the Blitz will be brought flooding back to life. The music will span almost all the emotions of those difficult times: comradeship, doubt, fear, loss and, most significantly, the hope in love. There have been times in history when composers and musicians seemed to be born to the occasion - none more so than the inimitable Glenn Miller who not only felt instinctively for the mood of the time but almost single-handed created the spirit with which the public faced it.
Singer Georgina Jackson has performed a concert of Peggy lee songs for Radio 2 and has sung Irving Berlin classics for Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night as well as performing live on Sir Terry Wogan's Children in Need live special. Her second album Watch What Happens released 2012 was London Evening Standard’s CD of the week in July 2012.
The Nick Ross Orchestra uses arrangements exactly as recorded in the Great Swing Era of the ‘40’s and ‘50s, coupled with outstanding instrumental and vocal performances. Get “in the mood” at what looks like a brilliant evening of music and song.
The Brunton, Friday 5th June 2015, 7.30pm. Booking Tickets are £18.50 (£17.50) and available from the box office on 0131 665 2240 or at www.thebrunton.co.uk