Friday, March 26, 2010
8:00 PM

“It don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got that swing!” Featured in the MGM movie Return to Me, the Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra will bring the jumping, swinging Big Band music of the 1930s and '40s back to roaring life! This high-energy show with its impeccable 15-musician crew is reminiscent of an old-time radio show complete with an emcee and actors performing commercials of that era. The Swing Shift Orchestra, who has also performed at the Chicago Jazz Festival and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, has unlimited access to the Balaban and Katz Theatre Orchestra Collection of over 26,000 stock arrangements.

Special thanks to our Signature Series Sponsors - Season Sponsors: Arts Midwest Performing Arts Fund, James H. and Nike D. Lagos, Ohio Arts Council, Performing Arts Center Circle of Friends, Springfield Foundation, ThinkTV, and Yellow Book | Season Co-Sponsors: Courtyard by Marriott, Fifth Third Bank, Lite 99.9 FM, Springfield Masonic Community, Springfield News-Sun, Target, Tech II and The Turner Foundation

(All dates, times and artists are subject to change)