Year 2010 Roseville Big Band Public Dances:

Saturday, April 17: Big Band Roundhouse Dance, "Swing Into Spring," sponsored by the Minnesota Transportation Museum. Jackson Street Roundhouse, 193 Pennsylvania Ave. E., St. Paul 55130. Admission is $10. For advance tickets or information about the museum, visit www.trainride.org or call 651-228-0263. Click here for the song list and pictures from last year's dance.

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, 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 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.

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!

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 last year's 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 last year's song list. Betwen dances, Beacon Hill residents played Latin percussion with the Roseville Big Band.
Tuesday, June 15: Concert in the Park at Roseville Central Park band shell, 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 and pictures from last year's concert. Roseville Central Park band shell
Sunday, July 4: Concert in the Park at Roseville Central Park band shell, 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: TBD Click here for the song list and pictures from the July 4, 2009, concert.
Tuesday, July 27: Concert in the Park at Roseville Central Park band shell, corner of Lexington and Co. Rd. C, 7:30-8:45 p.m.. Guest artist the Minnesota State Fire Service Memorial Pipe Band. Click here for last year's song list.
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 (tentative - check back in October), 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 tentative song list.  

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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