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Wednesday, June 21, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER B5 Arts & Entertainment O akville B eaver E ntertainm ent Editor Carol Baldwin 845-3824 (Extension 254); Fax: 337-5567; E-mail: baldw in@ haltonsearch.com Elvis lives at W aterfront Bronte will rock during the Waterfront Festival with Elvis Presley's greatest hits. International award-winning tribute artist Stephen Kabakos will provide a sensational and sensual performance as he recreates the career of the King of rock 'n roll from his early Sun Studio record ings through to his army days, his movies, and his explosive concert years at 8 p.m., Friday, June 23rd on the Bronte Boardwalk stage. Kabakos' portrayal of Elvis placed him among the top five out standing Elvis tribute artists in the world at the 1999 and 1998 Images of Elvis World Competition held in Memphis, Tennessee. Performing a Canadian Memor ial Concert with the Jordanaires, Elvis's original band members, has been the highlight of Kabakos' career. The Elvis impersonator also earned the privilege of entertaining guests from Presley's musical past at the eleventh annual Elvis Presley Memorial Dinner and Charity Event in 1999. The Toronto All Star Big Band will perform at the Oakville Waterfront Festival from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, June 24th on the Bronte Boardwalk stage. F raeile race REFLECTIONS ON THE ENVIRONMENT A Major Exhibition at The Burlington A rt Centre featuring works by Robert Bateman, an Illustrated Lecture Series and Special Workshops. R o bert Ba t e m a n G a r y Blu n d ell Ken D anby M arth a H e n r ic k s o n Big band sound comes to town A k ir a K o m o to P a t r ic ia K o z o w y k S t e p h e n S c o t t Pa t t e r s o n E. R o b e r t R o s s A lan T current big band format. And, Jedrze jek adds, perhaps the orchestra was on a path towards the big band sound he Oakville Waterfront Festi from its inception, since that style of val will get in the mood with music has always fascinated and intrigued him. The Toronto All Star Big "It's music that is dear to my Band from 7 to 10 p.m., Sat urday, June 24th on the Bronte heart. I like the arrangements; I like the enthusiasm that that music has," Boardwalk stage. he says. "It's something that I've This group of enthusiastic young people will take onlookers back to the always had an incline for." days of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey The difference between The and Benny Goodman with romantic Toronto All Star Big Band and, for renditions of such favourites as Satin example, the Tribute to Glenn Miller Doll and M oonlight Serenade. or Spitfire orchestras is that JedrzeThe orchestra was formed by artis jek's musicians are young, the age that the original big band members tic director Zygmunt Jedrzejek who were when they were playing those admits that the repertoire of the band ageless tunes. didn't always include In the Mood and Little Brown Jug. "Benny Goodman was playing in "We've gone through a number of swing orchestras when he was 17," changes," he says, explaining that the says the artistic director. "We try to youth orchestra (ages 14 to 20, give have young, enthusiastic or take a couple of years, depending players...The solos are very much on ability and desire) began with along the stylistic lines and in the classical music, moved on to concert spirit of what they would have been band material, but ultimately settled in the '30s and '40s." on the big band sound. This repertoire, of course, does "We eventually started doing tend to attract more seniors than swing way before the swing craze young folk; but Jedrzejek likes that actually came into effect. But the juxtaposition, especially when he swing craze is not really the same receives positive feedback from his kind of swing as we do," he explains. audiences. "We try to recreate the arrangements `T he seniors tend to remember and the harmonies of the actual their early days when this music was recordings of the '30s and '40s." basically the pop music of their era. And quite frequently the comments I That authenticity, along with the enthusiasm of the young band mem get are, `My goodness, it's so nice to bers, has wowed audiences since the see that this traditional good music is orchestra switched from classical, the carried on with the younger genera norm for student orchestras, to its tion.' And they're totally surprised ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR By Carol Baldwin that, not only do they know the names of the tunes, but they can actu ally play them," he says, adding that the orchestra's new CD is frequently played by Oakville's oldies radio sta tion CHWO. Jedrzejek's 22-member group, a non-profit, charitable organization under the direction of Rob Thaller and Michael Manny, includes students who play piano, guitar, bass, drums, brass, and saxophone. It also includes five vocalists who, along will all the musicians, have auditioned for their places. So, the group is open to any young, accomplished musician with a desire to play or sing big band music. The orchestra's 18-year-old clarinet player, says Jedrzejek, started with the band when he was only 12. The vocalists, known as the Sere nades, have been know to invite audiences to sing and swing with their up-tempo harmonies. "A good chunk of our shows is done with the vocalists. We recreate the sounds that the Pied Pipers and the Modemaires had. So we do things like D on' t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Chattanooga Choo Choo.. .We also do some mod ern stuff from Manhattan Transfer like Boy From New York City, Trickle, Trickle and their Tuxedo Junction ver sion," he says. Despite the age of the orchestra members and likely school commit ments, they rehearse once a week from September to June and then daily for three hours during the sum mer, since most of their gigs - about (See `Audition' on page B6) S o n f is t Lo rne W ag m an Public Lecture by: J a y In g r a m o f " T h e D is c o v e ry C h a n n e l ' Thursday, June 22 at 7:00 pm Admission; $10/person, Members $5 /person Call 905-632-7796 ext 307 to reserve tickets BURLINGTON A J J A R T ^ / f i CENTRE 1333 Lakeshore R oad B urlington JUNE 4 - JULY 23 , 2000 Information: (905) 632-7796 · BurlingtonA rtC entre.on.ca CI TY OF n m B U R L I N G T O N U T JE n v ir o n m e n t ^2000 f t mj) C a n a e S 0 2 .9 -JLite fm T h e H a m i l t o n S p e c t a t o r1 (fC j.t,r* tH it* / B :,r Waterfront buttons and transportation Waterfront buttons are avail able for $8 until close of busi ness tomorrow (Thursday) at all Oakville area banks, McDonald's, Canada Post, the Rainbow Gas Bar and partici pating Petro-Canada stations in Oakville, Burlington and Mis sissauga. 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