Festivals & Theatres: Craig McMurdo & That Swing Thang ®
This is the band with which Craig made his name in the '90s performing sophisticated swing and Rat Pack classics. If you're looking for the UK's finest swing band, look no further!
With a line up of trumpet, sax, trombone, piano, drums, guitar, double bass and three fabulous backing vocalists this format has the optimum versatility to perform scaled down big band classics to jump jive, easy listening to soul, swing to jazz.
Songs associated with such great names as Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters, Sinatra, Dean Martin, George Benson, Eddie Jefferson, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, Van Morrison, Mel Torme, Ray Charles, Tony Bennett and Bobby Daren interspersed with original material by Ray Gillespie, that have featured on Craig's albums, are all given the unique Craig McMurdo treatment and delivered in his inimitable style.