Swing, Swing, Swing in the new year with the music of the King of Swing Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Tommy Dorsey and more!
With a nod to the musical explosion that happened in the mid ’40s – bebop – we’ll celebrate the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk, plus new arrangements by jazz genius Guy Barker, Associate Artist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Guy Barker, conductor
Giacomo Smith, clarinet/saxophone
Vanessa Haynes, Joe Stilgoe, Tommy Blaize vocalists
RTÉ lyric fm, New Year’s Eve Tuesday 31st December, 10pm-1am
