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OURBIGBAND

Led by area trumpeter / composer Chris Klaxton, OURBIGBAND is a conglomeration of the seacoasts finest performers. While you can find most members performing in a wide variety of styles and configurations throughout the area (Tan Vampires, Soggy Po Boys, Chris Klaxton Group, Shango), these musicians come together not only because of their long history of friendship and musical entanglements, but to keep the Big Band sound alive.

A diverse and able orchestra, OURBIGBANDs collective sound and interests lend to performing not only from the classic repertoire but also allows the orchestra to pursue original music and music from outside the jazz idiom.

OURBIGBAND is bridging gaps and tastefully reimagining a genre that really mattered, and will matter again in the lineage of American music. Don't let 'em pass you by... This music is swingin', and the swingin' is good.

- Chris Hislop, Portsmouth Herald