This coming weekend Holotradband will be appearing at the 1st annual Highline Vintage Jazz Festival held at Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien, WA.
Lance Haslund, a fine musician who has been a member of the Burien Arts Organization for a number of years, is serving as the festival director.
In addition to some forty years as a professional [...]
We also played a “social dance” set for the Balboa fest Saturday. Most of Saturday was pretty serious for dancers. There were classes, competitions, discussion groups, and all sorts of things that let you know these dancers mean business when they hit the floor. Their interest and dedication shows when you watch them strut their [...]
It’s a busy weekend for for Holotradband. We started out Friday evening playing a couple of sets for more than a hundred young dancers from throughout the US as they gathered in Ballard for the 2007 Northwest Balboa Fest.
The festival, in its third year, is becoming quite an event in the national Balboa dance circles. [...]
Boy, was this a fun night or what? Matt Weiner’s good pal, Jon-Erik Kellso, a very fine, internationally-known cornetist from New York was in Seattle for a few days. Matt brought him down to hear the band and sit-in a little last Tuesday, Sept. 12. Jon-Erik ended up sitting in most of the second set [...]