Kahilu Summer Swing featuring
The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Put on your dancing shoes and celebrate summer at the Kahilu Summer Swing, featuring The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra! This swing extravaganza features 25 musicians, singers and dancers on stage, with two dance floors, and pre-show swing dance demonstrations.
The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra is recognized as one of the greatest of the Big Bands from the 1940’s and we are privileged to be presenting this orchestra in a concert spectacular, featuring special guests – The Swing Sisters and Bryan Anthony, one of America’s finest singers of the Frank Sinatra Songbook.
The concert will be a musical journey down memory lane, you will hear the original arrangements of Tommy Dorsey Hits...I’m Getting Sentimental Over You, Opus No.1, Bugle Call Rag, Song of India and many of the vintage Sinatra classics – This Love of Mine, I’ll Never Smile Again and Blue Skies. The Swing Sisters compliment the show performing the greatest hits of The Andrews Sisters. An added attraction is pre-show swing dance demonstrations by the sensational local dance group The Hilo Hep Cats.
Tommy Dorsey was affectionately known as the Sentimental Gentleman of Swing. He became one of the greatest Big Band leaders of that era and was honored with Grammy Awards for I’ll Never Smile Again and his famous theme song I’m Getting Sentimental Over You. The orchestra will also pay tribute to the Kings of Swing – Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Harry James and Woody Herman featuring such classics as Sing, Sing, Sing, Memories of You, Begin the Beguine, Ciriciribin and Woodchopper’s Ball.
VIP tickets include the best seats in the house, 5pm early admission and reception on the lawn and lanai, including drinks, pupus, pre-show entertainment, and appeal for Kahilu’s education programs. Grammy-nominated and three time Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award Nominee, Kahulanui will perform for VIP guests. Influenced by the Royal Hawaiian Band and Hawaiian swing orchestras, Kahulanui performs classic Hawaiian songs in a syncopated style making Hawaiian Swing vibrant and alive in Hawai‘i today.
Doors open at 6pm with pupus and drinks available for purchase before and during the show. Swing dance attire is encouraged. $121 VIP and $77 seats will be centrally seated at tables with $42 and $32 seating in theatrical seating.