All the Best Popular Music!

February 28, 2008

Press Release

The California Pops Orchestra, celebrated for its engaging and entertaining shows of music from Broadway, Hollywood, big band and jazz, presents its “Swing! Swing! Swing!” Big Band Show with special guests The Black Tie Jazz Orchestra joined by Singers Ann Gibson and Peter Vilkin. Showtime is 7:30pm on Saturday, April 12^th and again at 3pm Sunday April 13^th. Both shows are at the Spangenberg Theater, Gunn High School, 780 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto. MC and Conductor Kim Venaas leads Northern California’s only exclusively Pops orchestra in the biggest Big Band hits of the 30s and 40s including: “Sing, Sing, Sing”, “Let’s Dance”, “In the Mood”, “Don’t Be That Way” and many more favorites by Benny Goodman, Harry James, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Louis Prima and Glenn Miller. The Black Tie Jazz Orchestra has kept the dance floor jumpin’ from Davies Symphony Hall to every major hotel ballroom and country club in the Bay Area. In the movie, “Swing”, with Jacqueline Bisset, Barry Bostwick and Jonathan Winters, Black Tie was featured both on screen and on the award-winning soundtrack. If your kids have never heard this terrific music in person, now is their chance. It’s great live music for the whole family and no one does it better than The Black Tie Jazz Orchestra and your California Pops Orchestra. Bring your friends and family, grandparents and grandkids to easy-to-find Spangenberg Theater on the Gunn campus at 780 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto, April 12^th & 13^th, 2008 and share the musical magic of the Big Bands. These shows typically sell out so advance tickets are strongly advised. Ticket prices: $25 Adults, $20 Senior, $15 Students, $5 Children and can be purchased online or by phone. Website: www.californiapopsorchestra.com. Or call (650) 856-8432. Media Online Press Room with Download Link: http://www.californiapopsorchestra.com/pressroom Downloads of Hi-Res photos, press release, fact sheet, calendar listings and more. For additional info please contact Vic Befera, Pops Public Relations (650) 328–3936, email: manager@californiapopsorchestra.com or Executive Director Alicia Wilmunder at (650) 856-8432. Thanks and see you at the show! Vic Befera, Public Relations Manager

“Swing: The Movie”

BTJO’s and Miss Ann Gibson