Year 2010 Roseville Big Band Public Dances:

Saturday, May 22: Spring Big Band Hangar Dance sponsored by the Commemorative Air Force, in hangar #3 at Fleming Field in S. St. Paul, 8:00-midnight. Click here for directions (instructions and maps, 78K). Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Free swing dance lessons 7:00-7:45 by TC Swing. Special guest vocalists Kirk and Diane Lindberg. Dance exhibitions by the Swing Cats. Around 9:30, we might even have a run-up of the engines of a WWII-era plane! Prizes awarded for best uniforms and 40's dress! Food, snacks, pop, beer & wine available! Sorry, no outside food or beverages. Admission is $10. For more information, call 651-455-6942. Click here for the song list. As usual, we took requests.

Swing dancers crowd the dance floor.
Saturday, September 18: Bomber's Moon Ball sponsored by the Commemorative Air Force, in hangar #3 at Fleming Field in S. St. Paul, 8:00-midnight. Click here for directions (instructions and maps, 78K). Free swing dance lessons 7:00-7:50 by TC Swing. Special guest appearance by the Rosetones vocal quartet. Around 9:20, listen to the run-up of the engines of Miss Mitchell, the CAF's World War II B-25 bomber! Prizes awarded for best uniforms and 40's civilian dress! Food, snacks, pop, beer & wine available! Sorry, no outside food or beverages. Admission is $10. For more information, call 651-455-6942. Click here for the song list from last year. As usual, we took requests. Miss Mitchell, the CAF's restored B-25 bomber, furnishes the background for the text: Hangar Dance!
Saturday, September 25: World War II Hangar Dance sponsored by the Scott County Historical Society, at the Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, celebrating the new historical exhibit with oral histories of over 75 Word War II veterans. Dinner at 5:30. Dance 7:00 - 10:00. Scott County Historical Society Stans Historical Museum

Year 2010 Roseville Big Band Public Concerts:

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Tuesday, May 25: Concert in the Como Park Lakeside Pavilion, 1360 Lexington Parkway, attached to the Black Bear Crossings cafe, in St. Paul's Como Park, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Click here for the song list. A view of the pavilion from across the lake
Saturday, June 12: Outdoor Concert at the Ice Cream Social at Beacon Hill Retirement Community, 5330 Beacon Hill Road in Minnetonka, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Click here for the song list. Betwen dances, Beacon Hill residents played Latin percussion with the Roseville Big Band.
Tuesday, June 15: Concert in the Park at Roseville's Frank Rog Amphitheatre, corner of Lexington and Co. Rd. C, 7:30-8:55 p.m. Guest artists the Rosetones vocal quartet. Click here for the song list. The Rosetones Roseville Central Park band shell
Sunday, July 4: Concert in the Park at the Frank Rog Amphitheatre, corner of Lexington and Co. Rd. C, 7:30-8:30 p.m., followed by the Roseville Community Band at 9:00 p.m. and fireworks at dusk. Guest artists: The Swing Cats swing dance exhibition dancers. Click here for the song list.
Tuesday, July 27: Concert in the Park originally planned for the Frank Rog Amphitheatre, corner of Lexington and Co. Rd. C, 7:30-8:45 p.m., but moved indoors to St. Michael's, 1660 W. Co. Rd. B due to 103-degree heat index and threat of thunderstorms. Guest artist the Minnesota State Fire Service Memorial Pipe Band. Click here for the song list. Logo of the Minnesota State Fire Service Memorial Pipe Band
Sunday, November 14: Concert at Edinborough Park in Edina, 7:00-8:00 p.m. The southeast entrance to Edinborough Park

Roseville Big Band concerts in Roseville's Central Park are broadcast live by the volunteers of CTV15 on Channel 15, CTV North Suburbs!

Year 2010 Roseville Big Band Sit-in Nights:

Tuesday, April 6, in the cafeteria at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, 1660 W. Co. Rd. B in Roseville, about a block and a half west of Snelling Ave. N., 7:30-9:30 p.m. Part of the group in the choir room on sit-in night. Jim Foss, guitar Dan Desmonds, tenor sax Keith Horst, tenor sax sit-in Fred Anderson, guitar sit-in Jim Foster, drum set Mike Wobig, electric bass Tom Huelsmann, bass trombone sit-in
Tuesday, October 19, in the cafeteria at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Other Year 2010 Roseville Big Band Events:

Saturday, February 6: Carleton College Mid-Winter Dance, 9:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m. This year's theme is "The Seasons," and the Roseville Big Band's season is Winter. Click here for the song list. As always, we took requests. Click here to see pictures from the 2009 dance.  
Tuesday, March 16: Concert at RosePointe in Roseville, 2555 Hamline Ave., N., 7:30 p.m. - 8:40 p.m. Click here for the song list.  
Sunday, June 27: Roseville Community Showcase at the Frank Rog Amphitheatre, corner of Lexington and Co. Rd. C, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Click here for pictures and more information.  
Wednesday, September 15: Wind Farm Opening, southwest of Mankato  

Click here for links to information about the Roseville Big Band's performances, sit-in nights, and other events in other years.

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