TBD - Matinee Music and the Bill Emery Band
Unfortunately, Tap Traders has permanently closed. As we can find a new location that works we will let everyone know. Thanks, Bill!
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Music from the Great American Songbook as well as Carole King, James Taylor, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and many more.
CANCELED - Matinee Music at Tap Traders; The Front Range Big Band Combo
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Enjoy great music and dancing opportunities in a historic building (the Alexander Film Studios). Melange Combo plays a mix of jazz, pop and rock favorites. Admission is $10 at the door, $2 discount with donation of any non-perishable food product (distributed by WestSide Cares).
Join us for Happy Hour and Dinner Jazz. Featuring msuci from Louis Armstrong, Carole King, Arlo Guthrie, Frank Sinatra, Cole Porter, and great Jazz, pop, and blues standards! Even an original song or two!
Matinee Music at Tap Traders; Melange Combo with special guests The Bare Bones Trombone Choir
Enjoy great music and dancing opportunities in a historic building (the Alexander Film Studios). Melange Combo plays a mix of jazz, pop and rock favorites. Special guests joining Melange will be the Bare Bones Trombone Choir. Admission is $10 at the door, $2 discount with donation of any non-perishable food product (distributed by WestSide Cares).
Dinner Jazz with Bill and Pam (with special guests Kelly Feely and Jim Robertson)
Monte Carlo Masquerade: Colorado Springs Chorale featuring the Bill Emery Band
The annual Monte Carlo Masquerade by the Colorado Springs Chorale is an event to raise support for this excellent organization. https://www.cschorale.org/monte-carlo-masquerade-2020 for more information
Matinee Music at Tap Traders; The Bill Emery Band
Enjoy great music and dancing opportunities in a historic building (the Alexander Film Studios). Music will feature some of Colorado Springs' finest musicians including the Bill Emery Band (February 2), Swingin' Sweeney and the Moldy Figs (March 1), and the Front Range Big Band (April 5). Admission is $10 at the door, $2 discount with donation of any non-perishable food product (distributed by WestSide Cares).
Swingin' Sweeney and The Moldy Figs
Motif Jazz Club, 182 E Cheyenne Mountain Blvd., Colorado Springs
Classic jazz and swing from Boyd Sweeney and Southern Colorado's premier swing dance band, The Moldy Figs.
Music Matinee at Tap Traders: The Front Range Big Band
Enjoy great music and dancing opportunities in a historic building (the Alexander Film Studios). Music will feature some of Colorado Springs' finest musicians including the Stardust Jazz Orchestra (February 2), the Front Range Big Band (January 5), and Swingin' Sweeney and the Moldy Figs (March 1). Admission is $10 at the door, $2 discount with donation of any non-perishable food product (distributed by WestSide Cares).
Holiday Swing Dance
Private Christmas Party - The Bill Emery Band
Matinee Music at Tap Traders; The Stardust Jazz Orchestra
Enjoy great music and dancing opportunities in a historic building (the Alexander Film Studios). Music will feature some of Colorado Springs' finest musicians including the Stardust Jazz Orchestra (December 1, February 2), the Front Range Big Band (January 5), and Swingin' Sweeney and the Moldy Figs (March 1). Admission is $10 at the door, $2 discount with donation of any non-perishable food product (distributed by WestSide Cares).
BIO
Bill Emery
Bill Emery has been playing music since he was 7 years old. Growing up in the Minneapolis Minnesota area he had a wide variety of influences from Lawrence Welk and all the musical entertainment on TV in the 1960’s to his older brother who was an accomplished accordionist and school and Army band musician.
Bill self-taught himself to read music with an accordion and then played tuba through his school years, adding trombone after being inspired at a concert by Stan Kenton.
Bill has travelled with the John Stafford Big Band Sound and attended the University of Texas at Dallas attaining degrees in Music Performance, Commercial Music, and Music Education. He has led his own groups since 1978 playing big band music and small group jazz.
After arriving in Colorado Springs he formed the New Century Big Band as a community-focused group. He led this band until taking a “semi-retirement" to return to school to get a degree in nursing and he now works as a RN (Med-Surg/Stroke) at a local hospital.
Since returning from this "semi-retirement" he has led his own group, the Bill Emery Band (with 4-16 players), plays in the Bare Bones Trombone Choir, and is a member of Swingin’ Sweeney and the Moldy Figs (Southern Colorado’s premier “swing” band). He released a jazz quintet CD this year titled “It Is What It Is: Songs for my Father and other Jazz” and has recently been recording a number of original songs.