PRESS RELEASE
March 17, 2017
Contact:
Frank E. Winkler
Co-Chair and Spokesperson
City Cabaret 2017
(860) 446-4095
[email protected]
City Cabaret 2017 Presents As Time Goes By
GROTON - Come hear the music play. City Cabaret 2017 presents its final
concert of the season on Sunday April 9, 2017. The swing band, As Time Goes By,
will be featured.
As Time Goes By is a local 21-piece community swing band and is a subgroup
of the Noank-Mystic Community Band. The group has been playing as a swing band
since it was formed in 2013.
All City Cabaret 2017 concerts are held in the City of Groton Auditorium at 295
Meridian Street in the City of Groton and start at 3:00 p.m.
The City Cabaret concert series is co-sponsored and co-produced by Groton
Utilities and the City of Groton Parks and Recreation Department.
The band’s music includes many well-known songs from the swing era during the
days of famous band leaders like Benny Goodman, Harry James, and Glenn Miller. The
band’s music library also includes well-known tunes from famous jazz bands of more
recent years such as Count Basie, Stan Kenton, and Woody Herman.
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The mission of As Time Goes By is to provide great sounding big band music of
the swing and jazz eras for listening and dancing for a variety of occasions throughout
southeastern Connecticut.
Sean Nelson joined the band as music director in March 2016. Mr. Nelson is a
trombonist in the U. S. Coast Guard band, staff arranger, a member of the Coast Guard
Dixieland Band, and Music Director of the Guardians Big Band.
Dessert, coffee and bottle water will be available for purchase from the Fitch High
School Alcohol and Drug Free Party Committee.
The concerts are free. No alcohol is allowed. The concert info line is (860) 4464129.
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