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Swingtime Big Band

Active since: 1972

Dedicated to the performance of America's greatest popular standards, SWINGTIME BIG BAND is a 20-piece authentic swing band comprised of master interpreters of music from the Swing Era (mid-1930s through early 1950s) and beyond.  Hailed by The New York Times as “Musicians who make the sounds of the pre-rock era rock,” and by Newsday as “Long Island’s leading professional big band…dedicated to the Great American Songbook,” the ensemble specializes in performing Big

Band classics as originally recorded, bringing to life the style and the spirit of this uniquely American music for today’s audiences to experience in living color.  In recognition of the band’s efforts in “perpetuating, promoting & performing with integrity the sounds of the Big Band Era,” SWINGTIME was officially honored by the Big Band Hall of Fame in 2007 as “Ambassadors of Big Band Music.”

Alan McRae

After playing bodhran in a Celtic music band called Celtic Knot for several years, I got together with some friends and created an oldies jazz band called The Wildcats: "A classic big band era oldies jazz band that plays the most popular jazz of the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's - with an occasional surprise thrown into the mix." Featuring Mary Grace Lodico on keyboard, the late Bill "Doc" Stecher on synthesizer, Rick Eilerts on upright bass, George Jones on guitar and Alan McRae on drums, this classic oldies jazz quintet can transport you back in time via the romantic music of the Big Band Era - a classier & more civilized era when couples "dressed to the nine's" for an elegant evening out on the town