THIS SATURDAY, DEC. 10 STARLITERS BIG BAND TO GIVE FREE PERFORMANCE OF 1940S MUSIC AT 7 P.M. IN THE COOLIDGE THEATRE AND KACY HAGAN TO ASSIST DANCERS AT THE SHOW AND GIVE FREE SWING DANCE LESSON AT 3 P.M. IN DEANE CENTER LOBBY
At 3 p.m. this Saturday Dec. 10, Kacy Hagan (shown), a professional dance instructor, is giving a free swing dance lesson in the lobby at the Deane Center at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro. “Swing is a fun dance and easy to learn. No experience is needed
Those that love listening to 1940s music and dancing or singing to it or want to give it a try are invited to a free performance by the 18-member Starliters Big Band at 7 p.m. this Saturday, Dec. 10 in the Deane Center’s Coolidge Theatre at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro.
The Starliters includes two singers and 16 musicians under the direction of Tom Kowalik. Three of the 16 – Rick Doganiero of Wellsboro, Brian Loher of Mansfield and Don Schauer of Westfield – are from Tioga County, Pa. and 13 are from the Canandaigua, Corning, Elmira and Rochester areas of New York.
Theband’stwo singers, husband and wife CoIIeen and Gary SchrickeI sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the 1980s and 1990s.
Based in Corning, New York, the Starliters will perform big band jazz classics from the swing era (1935 to 1945), such as “American Patrol,” “In the Mood,” “Satin Doll,” “Don’t Sleep Under the Apple Tree,” “Little Brown Jug,” “Pennsylvania Polka,” and others by the Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Glenn Miller orchestras.
The band will play holiday tunes from the 1940s, too. Among them are: “Let It Snow”, “Have Yourself A Very Merry Christmas” and “Winter Wonderland.”
Those who take the free swing dance class with professional dance instructor Kacy Hagan of Wellsboro at 3 p.m. this Saturday, Dec. 10 in the lobby at the Deane Center at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro and attend the Starliters
free performance at 7 p.m. Saturday night can get additional free help with dancing because Kacy Hagan will be there.