Former LHS band director Mike Price featured in Big Band Concert
Rowan Big Band All-Stars
Vintage Big Band Music
The RBBA is an 18-piece community big band reminiscent of the 1930s style of Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and other bandleaders. There are 20 members — 18 instrumentalists and two singers. Big band is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that consists of a number of musicians with four sections — saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a rhythm section. The music originated in the early 1900s and dominated jazz in the 1940s, when swing music was at its most popular.
The band, founded in 2006, has performed throughout the region at benefits for charities such as Communities in Schools, Speedway Children’s Charities, the USO, American Cancer Society, The American Legion Auxiliary, W.G. Hefner Veterans Medical Center and others, according to its website.
As a nonprofit organization “dedicated to preserving this uniquely American style of music and sharing our appreciation of it with others,” the net proceeds from the band’s performances are used to support local charities.
Big Band music will be accessible for people of all economic levels!
There is NO Admission Charge for the Concert, but Donations are welcome and appreciated.
