[Dixielandjazz] Sister Swing At STJS, Sacramento Area

[Robert S. Ringwald]

 Sister Swing, the wonderful singing trio (think the Andrews Sisters and the 
Boswell Sisters) will be the featured guest stars
at the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society's special Mother's Day concert 
"Jazz Sunday", May 8, 2005, noon - 5:00 PM.

 opening the day's festivities on the Main Stage will be the irrepressible 
"SUGAR Willie" Erickson.  The girls, along with Bonnie Otto and the Delta 
Swing Orchestra, will go on at 12:50 and again at 3:00 PM.

At 2:00 PM, Burt Wilson's Silver Dollar Jazz Band will take the stage.  Edd 
Burhans' Duke's Place will polish off the day beginning at 4:10 PM.

As usual, Jazz Sunday is held at the Dante Club, 2330 Fair Oaks Blvd., 
Sacramento.  There is plenty of over-flow parking next door at MacDonald's.

Donation at the door, $5.00 members, $10 non-members.  Reduced rates for 
teens.  Children under     12, free.

>From the Sister Swing web site:

Sister Swing is a fresh, exciting trio of singers which has captured the 
sound of
the girl groups of the 1930s and 1940s, and brought it to the 21st century. 
Heavily
influenced by the 3 part harmonies of groups like the Andrews Sisters and 
the Boswell
Sisters, Sister Swing brings a new sound to an old style.
The three ladies, Leigh Hannah, Valerie Marston and Paula Chafey-Merrill, 
genuinely
have a good time on stage and that transcends to their audience.  An evening 
with
Sister Swing will take you back in time to an era of glamour, romance and 
innocence.
The act started to take shape around 1996 when they performed with the 
Nelson Riddle
Orchestra.  That started a chain reaction and shortly thereafter they 
guest-starred
several times with the Moonlight Swing Big Band out of Auburn.  It was with 
Moonlight
Swing that the girls had the distinct honor of singing for Bob Hope and his 
wife,
along with the Apollo 8 astronauts at the 1998 Stockton Air Show.  They soon 
were
invited to perform at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the largest of its kind 
in the
world featuring over 125 bands.  They have to date enjoyed 4 successful 
years with
that Jubilee, and are branching out to other festivals around the country.

 For directions to the Dante Club and more about STJS, see 
http://www.sacjazz.org

For more about Sister Swing, http://www.sisterswing.com

For info on the Sacramento Jazz jubilee, http://www.sacjazz.com