A Summer Soundscape
Midwest Big Band featuring Mary Kay Steele & Jim Bulanda
Saturday, June 17, 2023 • 8:00pm
Big band music of the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s has gifted American culture with arguably the greatest love songs on the charts. Listening to the crooning of “Rat Pack” members Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop on the radio was enough to melt any icy heart until it skipped a beat to the thrill of a saxophone. Band leaders like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller drew crowds and bridged racial divides through the love language of swing.
For the past three years, this professional quality, historical, 18-piece big band has been thrilling audiences across Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland with their world-class talent. Instrumentalists include the best semi-professionals in the Region, some of whom have toured professionally with Ray Charles, played freelance in Los Angeles, or taught music at the high school and college levels. Local vocalists Mary Kay Steele from La Porte, who has performed in community theater in Northwest Indiana for many years, along with Jim Bulanda, who is famous for his “Tribute to Frank Sinatra Show,” have joined the band to style the jazz standards.
Videos
Disney's Frozen the Broadway Musical
Paramount Theatre (10/30 - 1/19) | ||
The Little Mermaid
Drury Lane Theatre (11/6 - 1/12) | ||
Million Dollar Quartet
Paramount's Stolp Island Theatre (9/15 - 12/29) | ||
DREAMGIRLS
The Seven Thirty Theatre (12/6 - 12/7) | ||
Leroy and Lucy
Steppenwolf Theatre Company (10/24 - 12/15) | ||
My Kind of Christmas
Palos Village Players (11/15 - 11/23) HOLIDAY SHOW NEW COMEDY
PHOTOS
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The Book of Me
Greenhouse Theater Center (10/24 - 11/23) | ||
Mucca Pazza: For the Record
Epiphany Center for the Arts (11/3 - 11/23) | ||
Machine Made
Greenhouse Theater Center (5/1 - 5/31) | ||
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Cadillac Palace Theatre (7/9 - 8/2) | ||
Jekyll and Hyde in Concert
Madden Theater (1/17 - 1/26) | ||
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