swing band

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ACL Presents: 50 Years of Asleep at the Wheel: A Retrospective This new special looks back over nearly half a century of performances by the Austin-based Western swing band.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2020

That performance featured Corey Cott as Donny, a singer-songwriter who rounds up a group of fellow vets — all grieving in some way — to enter a national radio station’s swing band competition.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2020

In the late 1950s, Lindsay and his western swing band traveled the west, and frequently loaded up the bus to head to Compton, California, to appear on the national ABC-TV show “Town Hall Party.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 10, 2018

Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor’s original musical about a group of World War II veterans who form a swing band is laying down its instruments.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2017

There was music playing, perhaps a swing band.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny