After two decades of leading community music groups separately, Andrew and Diana Clark will come together with their respective ensembles for a show this weekend at Coquitlam’s Evergreen Cultural Centre.
Andrew Clark, who conducts the Inlet Jazz Band, will pay tribute to the swing and bebop jazz eras in a concert with the award-winning Coastal Sound Music Academy, of which his wife is the artistic director.
The concert, titled Swing Bob Scat, will feature choral renditions of such popular hits as Route 66, Frim Fram Sauce, Accentuate the Positive and Blue Skies. The youth and band will also perform a spoken-word nod to Charlie Parker over his piece Scrapple From the Apple; the show ends with Oscar Peterson’s Hymn to Freedom.
Diana Clark said the choir and jazz band collaboration “is not without some challenges,” noting the musician’s volume as well as the number of performers on stage.
“Many songs such as Ella Fitzgerald’s A-Tisket A-Tasket will have rhythm section accompaniment, which will amp up the energy and fun,” she said. “At times, the band will play alone, riffing off of one of the songs just sung.”
• For tickets to Swing Bob Scat on June 10 at 7 p.m., ranging in price from $15 to $23, call the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) at 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.
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