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Swing Into Christmas with the Down for the Count Orchestra 2024
Celebrate the festive season in style with the vocalists and instrumentalists of the Down for the Count Orchestra, as they return to Turner Sims for their annual festive extravaganza!
This is a Christmas celebration like no other, as Down for the Count recreate the music of Nat ‘King’ Cole, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and many more in a luscious 30-piece orchestral setting evoking the sounds of the great Capitol Studios recordings.
Expect to hear faithful recreations of the best music of the swing era including I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Let’s Face The Music and Dance and ‘S Wonderful, alongside original arrangements of jazz and festive standards written by principal conductor Mike Paul-Smith and arranger Simon Joyner including The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting) and It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas.
The Down for the Count Orchestra
Mike Paul-Smith - Conductor
plus vocalists
This is a Christmas celebration like no other, as Down for the Count recreate the music of Nat ‘King’ Cole, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and many more in a luscious 30-piece orchestral setting evoking the sounds of the great Capitol Studios recordings.
Expect to hear faithful recreations of the best music of the swing era including I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Let’s Face The Music and Dance and ‘S Wonderful, alongside original arrangements of jazz and festive standards written by principal conductor Mike Paul-Smith and arranger Simon Joyner including The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting) and It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas.
The Down for the Count Orchestra
Mike Paul-Smith - Conductor
plus vocalists
Sunday 22 December 2:30 PM and 7:00 PM
Tickets:
Standard - £37.00
Student - £29.00
Under 18 - £20.00
Access - £37.00
Tickets:
Standard - £37.00
Student - £29.00
Under 18 - £20.00
Access - £37.00
Turner Sims, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ
Sun 22 December
Website:
www.turnersims.co.uk/
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