Glenn Miller Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall

Name: Glenn Miller Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall
Start: 2018-01-07T15:00:00
End: 2018-01-07T23:59:00
Location: The Bridgewater Hall

Chris Horkan Last Updated 5 December 2017

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Glenn Miller Orchestra

The Bridgewater Hall, City Centre

7 January 2018

Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.

From £18.50

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The UK’s most renowned big band swings you back in time playing Glenn Miller’s own arrangements of favourite wartime chart-toppers and hits from the forties, directed by legendary band leader Ray McVay.

St. Louis Blues March
Sing Sing Sing
Little Brown Jug
Strike Up the Band
Pennsylvania 65-000
In the Mood
Moonlight Serenade
String of Pearls
American Patrol
Tuxedo Junction

With special guests The Polka Dot Dolls performing a tribute to The Andrews Sisters
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree
Don’t Fence Me In
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Guest vocalists Mark Porter and Catherine Sykes

The orchestra will perform the second half of the concert in the World War II uniforms of the US army Air Force

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