The Department of Parks and Recreation announces that the Bearcats Jazz Band will be performing at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park on Wednesday, Aug. 2 from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. The rain date is Thursday, Aug. 3.
Dick Van Gorder and Joe Hanlon, for the purpose of preserving and promulgating one of America’s national treasures – traditional jazz, formed the Bearcats in 1977. They perform for jazz societies and festivals in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida, and on the West Coast at Big Bear Lake in California.
The members of The Bearcats are devoted, and skilled musicians with a style firmly rooted in the New Orleans tradition, and a flair also for the variations known as Chicago and West Coast. The band appeals to a wide variety of audiences by easily migrating from a strict 1920s Louis Armstrong style with clarinet, tuba and banjo to a driving Eddie Condonesque, four-beater rouser with guitar and string bass. For dancing, the repertoire also reaches to Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Ellington and Basie.
Bring the family and a picnic dinner, and enjoy some wonderful Jazz music under the stars.
For more information please call Parks and Recreation at 203-618-7649, or visits greenwichct.org. For rain cancellation information please call 203-861-6100 after 4 p.m.
