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<\/a><\/p>\nWe seemed to go down well with the shoppers, many thanks for your kind donations which go towards new music and other running costs to keep this great community band playing.<\/p>\n
Heres what Bebop Spoken Here Blog site had to say about us.<\/p>\n
Friday, December 11, 2015<\/em> (Review by Russell\/photo from 2013 gig)<\/em> Kev even found a handy place to hang his\u00a0hat and coat while we played.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eldon Square didn’t quite know what had hit them when we played there last week during their annual charity fundraising event. Spot Fungus the Bogeyman We seemed to go down well with the shoppers, many thanks for your kind donations … Continue reading
\nThe Tyne Valley Big Band & Santa\u2019s Shoppers @ Eldon Square \u2013 Dec 10<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe hordes were out in force with just two weeks to go before\u2026before that day in the year that we \u2018bah humbugs\u2019 look forward to with a curry and a bottle of beer. Santa\u2019s shoppers were snapping up everything in sight, much of it to be put in a cupboard and forgotten about. Meanwhile, in the real world \u2013 known as the \u2018jazz world\u2019 \u2013 the Tyne Valley Big Band set up shop on Chevvy Chase.\u00a0<\/em>
\nThe TVBB, led by Dave Hignett, played some great big band tunes; Manteca, Mack the Knife, Minnie the Mooche and Joe Zawinul\u2019s modern masterpiece Birdland. The hordes looked bemused, stopped and listened, some danced, one dude took to break dancing. A big band of twenty three (MD and trumpeter Hignett included) performed with bauble-busting enthusiasm. The band\u2019s effervescent singer almost missed her cue on Sway. The antler-wearing Barbara Hignett had been spotted doing some last minute shopping in an adjacent branch of John Lewis! Shopping bags deposited, our vocalist strolled out front as if she\u2019d been preparing in the (non existent) green room, took the mic and did the job! Boundless enthusiasm (expert use of triangle on Henry Mancini\u2019s Pink Panther) is a key element to Barbara Hignett\u2019s performance allied to a great soulful voice.<\/em>
\nInevitably Let it Snow, Winter Wonderland and Santa Baby made it onto the set list. Doc Severinson\u2019s arrangement of In the Mood made the cut, as did Hayburner and Route 66. The Tyne Valley Big Band \u2013 a ten-strong saxophone section, four trombones, three hard-working trumpets and a four-piece rhythm section \u2013 is a talented, community-based band in the Tyne Valley, headquartered at Hexham. Catch one of their frequent public gigs as you\u2019re guaranteed a great show. Stay tuned to Bebop Spoken Here for forthcoming dates.<\/em>
\nRussell.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n