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Revel in the velvet voice of Kathryn Hackett from La Pompe who will be joining the Singapore Slingers Vintage Jazz Band

 

Singapore Slingers are named for the legendary cocktail – the Singapore Sling*.  Formed in 2007 in Dallas, the orchestra is Texas’ leading source for Jazz Age recreation. Recognized for their authenticity, the band uses instruments, arrangements and attire of the period for a complete visual as well as musical experience.

With 6,000 pieces in the collection, the Slingers’ repertoire effortlessly spans the first three decades of the twentieth century – from ragtime to the Jazz Age to the roots of swing. This music is not a museum piece, but a live, breathing testament to America’s treasured musical past. The orchestra seeks to honor this past while placing it firmly in the modern era. And while customs and social norms have changed greatly in the past one hundred years, the orchestra always has and always will adapt these musical artifacts for the present day.

*Most historians credit the Singapore Sling cocktail recipe to a bartender named Ngiam Tong Boon, who first mixed the cocktail at the Long Bar inside Singapore’s Raffles Hotel in 1915.