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Upcoming!

What's coming up next?

March 18, 2010  

Private function in Edmonton
Sorry, can't say where or for whom. it's all top secret this time! Even the music is under wraps - could be we'll be playing a night of Bulgarian wedding music or our bagpipes...

Then...

May 16, 2010  

Jazz at U of A's Augustana Campus in Camrose
Time: TBA - Early evening

It will be a fun night of jazz of all varieties with your favourite big band. We hope to see you there!

 

Plus coming soon...

We have more performances in the works so keep checking back here for more details. When we know, you'll know!

 

Been there, done that!

February 5, 2010 Simone on Simone at Festival Place - A sold out show with Nina Simone's remarkably talented and charming daughter Simone performing a retrospective of her mother's well known material. She put on an awesome musical event accompanied by the River City Big Band. It was an honour for us to play for her and her arranger-conductor, Ken Moyer. 

December 17, 18, & 19, 2009 A Jazzy Christmas (December 17 at Fort Saskatchewan's Dow Centre, December 18 at Spruce Grove's Horizon Stage, and December 19 at the U of A Myer Horowitz Theatre) - Featuring wonderful recording artists, vocalist Shelley Jones and Juno Award-winning guitarist Bobby Cairns! Narration by Colin MacLean. 

November 13, 2009 The Big Band Hits of World War II at the Westlock Cultural Arts Theatre - Narration by Colin MacLean, Vocals by Chandelle Rimmer

November 11, 2009 The Big Band Hits of World War II at Sherwood Park's Festival Place - Narration by Colin MacLean, Vocals by Chandelle Rimmer

October 3, 2009 Big Band Jazz Concert at Lakeland College, Vermilion, Alberta. Big Band and Jazz, the music of Ellington, Herman, Miller, Basie, Kenton, and Ferguson. Guest vocalist Rhonda Withnell.

June 26, 2009 Big Band Retrospective at Festival Place. Everything from Dixieland to big band music of today with vocals by Chandelle Rimmer and narration by Colin MacLean.

March 7, 2009 RCBB plus two terrific Calgary community jazz bands from the Westwinds Music Society put on a great show at the Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre.

March 1, 2009 Jazz, Man! - The band ripped it up at The Yardbird Suite - what a night!

December 12, 2008 A Jazzy Christmas - Vocals by Shelley Jones, hosted by Colin MacLean at Edmonton's Winspear Centre

November 28, 2008 A Jazzy Christmas - Vocals by Shelley Jones, hosted by Colin MacLean at Wetaskiwin Memorial Centre

November 11, 2008 Remembrance Day Concert: The Big Band Hits of World War II - Vocals by Bartha Hartman and narration by Colin MacLean at Sherwood Park's Festival Place

October 26, 2008 Jazz! - Vocals by Chandelle Rimmer at The Yardbird Suite


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