Classic 1930’s & 40’s tunes from The Shepton Mallet Big Band
After their amazing performance at last year’s Glastonbury Extravaganza, The Red Hot Jazz Club are thrilled to host The Shepton Mallet Big Band for our 80th Anniversary VE Day Celebrations.
Come dressed to celebrate and join in with the big band, singing and dancing to all those popular tunes that bring back all those memories of those momentous events in the 1930s and 40’s.
If you’d like to book a table and eat, we are offering a special VE Day meal of Beef or Vegetable Hotpot with Dumpling and Mash which can be ordered below with your tickets.
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The Shepton Mallet Big Band was established more than 30 years ago, when what started as a local saxophone jazz quartet specialising in music from the 30s, 40s and 50s, grew into a Big Band.
The band today is a vibrant group of over 20 enthusiastic musicians in a standard line-up of saxophones, trumpets and trombones, with guitar, bass, drums, keyboard and vocalists. Our repertoire includes music from the golden big band era of the 1940s, including Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Louis, Ella and Sinatra and also contemporary funk and soul style music such as pieces by Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, and Imelda May. The members are keen to bring live instrumental and vocal music of all kinds to everyone. Performances at recent events include: the Royal Bath & West Show for the last few years, Shepton Mallet Collett Park Day, Haynes Motor Museum and the Glastonbury Extravaganza supporting headliners Keane.
This year sees the 80th anniversary of VE day in May and the band has put together a set of authentic 1930s and 1940s music to commemorate this important milestone.
Friday 9th May
Doors: 7.30pm
Start: 8pm
Tickets
Entry: £15
Beef Hotpot with Dumpling and Mash*: £9.50 (advance booking only)
Vegetable Hotpot with Dumpling and Mash*: £9.50 (advance booking only)
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