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25.01.2022 Tickets for the June 12 gig are now on sale. Go to Adamstown Arts website shown below for the link to try booking. Big band music from Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Duke Ellington, all combined with the great vocals of Ella Fitzgerald (and some Peggy Lee thrown in). Come and listen to vocalist Heather Price bring these great charts to life.

24.01.2022 Jef and Teus performing tonight June 12 at Adamstown Uniting Church. Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/BBLRX

24.01.2022 Photos from our gig today at Adamstown (courtesy Meredith Stuart). Great band, great singer, great audience. We had a lot of fun!

24.01.2022 Still some good tickets left. Dungeon Big Band performing Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington....a feast! Saturday 6th April. 2 pm for Adamstown Arts at Adamstown Uniting Church.

23.01.2022 Can't get more laid-back than this.

22.01.2022 What a sound! And piano duet. My students should check out the technique of the reed players!

20.01.2022 Dungeon Big Band playing at Adamstown on Thursday August 8, 2019 - with special guests Newcastle Grammar School's BRASS RAZOO! https://vimeo.com/350957095

20.01.2022 Here's an interview Jef and Teus did while they were recording. They will be playing at Adamstown Wednesday 12th June. https://youtu.be/nNhtW1WeMjc

20.01.2022 The Dungeon Big Band - catch them at the Newcastle Jazz Festival performing "Basie Meets Ellington" on Sunday August 30 at 11.45 am in the Glasshouse Marquee. www.newcastlejazz.com.au This from the last gig, with Uni Choir:

18.01.2022 Dungeon Big Band's 'Let's Dance' on Saturday 6 April 2019 at Adamstown Uniting. Tickets: trybooking.com/BAUQB $35 ($30 conc/$80 family) early bird $5 discount if you book by March 8

18.01.2022 Here's a snippet of the concert last Sunday - Newcastle University Choir with the Dungeon Big Band and the All Shook Up dancers. Louis Prima's Sing Sing Sing.

18.01.2022 Dungeon Big Band at the Newcastle Jazz Festival 2015

17.01.2022 Sax Quartet, Sax Blue, is performing at Adamstown Arts 9 pm Monday 12 August for the Newcastle Music Festival. Craig Parish on straight soprano, curved soprano, alto and bass saxes & bass clarinet, Cameron Harker on sopranino, soprano and alto saxes & clarinet, Shane Landry on soprano and tenor saxes & clarinet, Rod Barnes on baritone sax & clarinet. Also special guests Clint Lawrence (alto sax & clarinet), Gareth Lewis (alto and tenor saxes) and Ben Barnes (drums). Tickets at https://www.trybooking.com/BCNXP Includes free glass of champagne on arrival!

13.01.2022 Our gig on Saturday April 6 is 'Let's Dance' so we'll be playing heaps of 30's 40's dance tunes to keep our chops working. We'll also be featuring this chart which is Duke Ellington's celebration of the dancer Bojangles (Bill Robinson). Check out some of Bojangles clips as well. Of course, Neil Diamond recorded a version of Jerry Jeff Walker's song Mr Bojangles, and there are plenty of clips showing Sammy Davis Jnr celebrating Bojangles as well. Looking forward to playing this one!

13.01.2022 The Big Band is back with a celebration of Ella Fitzgerald, featuring Heather Price and the Dungeon Big band with great charts like this one! Wednesday August 16th 7.30 pm at Adamstown - bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/PZGJ

11.01.2022 Promo for our Big Band gig this coming Sunday June 12 at 2 pm. Queen's Birthday weekend - (that's why Rod got his twin sister to feature in this).

10.01.2022 Dungeon Big Band back on the swing trail in August...but in the meantime, don't miss the Admiral's Own Big Band this coming Wednesday 24th June 2015 at Adamstown. Free entry but make sure of your seats: [email protected] or ph 4929 6315

09.01.2022 Tickets now available for the June 12 gig at Adamstown Uniting Church. Book your reserved seats at https://trybooking.com/KWMX

08.01.2022 Here's one of the charts we'll be doing at the June 12 gig. But I think we'll have to rework the chart to put the bass sax in! Of course this is the song made re-famous by Jessica Rabbit. Tickets now on sale for reserved seats here... http://www.adamstown-arts.com.au/site/index.cfm

08.01.2022 We're going to have to get the band back together - miss it too much. I reckon the next couple of weeks we'll get a plan together.

07.01.2022 Dungeon Big Band next gig this Sunday at the Great Hall with The Newcastle University Choir.

07.01.2022 Getting the set list together for June 12. We'll be doing some great Ella charts, including A Tisket A Tasket from her days with the Chick Webb orchestra. We're doing the original version.

06.01.2022 Next gig for The Dungeon Big Band - Swing Over The Pacific. Footage from Newcastle University Choir workshop (at least there was Heather and Ben from the big band). Full big band at the Concert, 2 pm August 2nd - University Great Hall.

06.01.2022 Another of our Crime Themes from 2005. We presented a whole concert of these, together with members from what is now Newcastle Theatre Company performing Rinse The Blood Off My Toga. It was a memorable gig!

04.01.2022 I will be singing and performing on double bass in this concert on September 8th. It should be an incredibly moving concert as the narration and music follows t...he story of a local man who served in WWI. For tickets follow the link below. https://adamstownuca.org.au/event/peace-concert/ https://youtu.be/zAKlHoP9qZk

03.01.2022 From our 'Music to be Murdered By' concert. With the great Paul Isaacs on tenor sax, the late Neville Holmes on trumpet, Rob Coxon drums, Steve Morton percussion, Brian Saxby guitar, Angela Bennett on alto plus all the other great players who graced the band then. Can't wait till we get performing again!

03.01.2022 Gillian Summers, CEO Lifeline Hunter, accepting donation of $3,500 from Adamstown Uniting Church concerts, at the Dungeon Big Band gig on Sunday 12 June 2016.

02.01.2022 Jef Neve and Teus Nobel set to perform at Adamstown Arts 7.30 pm Wednesday June 12, 2019

02.01.2022 Past version of Dungeon Big Band - Sophisticated Swing. One of our more successful concerts!