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The Solomon Douglas Swingtet, live in Toronto at Dovercourt House

Toronto Event Date: Sat, May 22, 2010

11:00 AM

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dovercourt-wallace, koreatown
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live music, live performance, live concert
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event space, dance studio
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jazz
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Dovercourt House
805 Dovercourt Road
Toronto, ON M6H 2X4

416-535-3847

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The Solomon Douglas Swingtet, live in Toronto

Note: this facebook event is NOT an invitation to show up at a particular place at a particular time. Rather, it’s an invitation to get involved with our tour by helping us raise money!

We’re planning our Loose Wig Tour 2010. The Solomon Douglas Swingtet (an eight-piece instrumental jazz orchestra) and the Solomon Douglas Quartet (consisting of four members of the Swingtet) will be performing in eleven cities from May 11th to May 22nd.

This is an expensive undertaking, and we would love your help. To raise money, we’re selling CDs, t-shirts, dance lessons, and other exciting things. We’re hoping to get $5,000 raised within the next couple weeks. Can you help out?

Please go to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/375285446/the-solomon-douglas-swingtet-loose-wig-tour to see what great stuff you can buy!

Most of the gigs on our tour are on weeknights in smaller cities and towns, which means that the venues cannot afford to pay us enough to cover our costs. We believe that bringing great live music to small towns is a culturally important thing to do. We hope that you do too! Your support will help us in our mission to present excellent live swing music to audiences who don’t often get an opportunity to hear it.

Here is our tour itinerary. If you live in or near one of these towns, we especially urge you to contribute, because that’s a win-win situation!

5/11: Quartet in Asheville, NC (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115807378441602)
5/12: Quartet in Knoxville, TN (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120822477928022)
5/13: Quartet in Atlanta, GA (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117064424987205)
5/15: Swingtet in Charleston, SC (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116833565000983)
5/16: Swingtet in Durham, NC (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111449905561441)
5/17: Swingtet in Norfolk, VA (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=274316095078)
5/18: Swingtet in Washington, DC (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112433968789776)
5/19: Swingtet in Harrisburg, PA (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=298234490677)
5/20: Swingtet in New York, NY (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111113105595927)
5/21: Swingtet in Albany, NY (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=313273509716)
5/22: Swingtet in Toronto, ON (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119469944735592)

We’re following the model of the great touring bands of the 1930s and 1940s: we’ll be performing every night, and driving five hours a day. Nobody does this anymore because it’s too expensive, but we’re doing it anyway! Help keep live touring music alive.

Pledge here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/375285446/the-solomon-douglas-swingtet-loose-wig-tour

photo: Brett Dahlenburg



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