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
1
3, 2009
The Big Band Hits of World War II at the Westlock Cultural Arts Theatre - Narration by Colin MacLean, Vocals by
Chandelle RimmerNovember
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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