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Swing band performs music from the '40s on Oct. 23

Hepcat Revival Swing Band from Toledo performs music of the 1940s at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 23, in the Town Hall Concert Series. The event is sponsored by the Bluffton Cultural Affairs Committee.

The concert is on the third floor of the town hall and admission is by donation.

The seven-piece band decked out in the full regalia of the latest fashions of the 1940s performs music of Louis Prima, Big Joe Turner, Cab Calloway and Louis Jordan, as well as their own compositions.

The band plays regularly at Casa Barron's and Fat Fish Blue in Perrysburg and in clubs in Toledo, Cleveland, Chicago, Columbus, Akron and Youngstown.

Members are Greg Tye, lead vocals, Ken Zuercher, guitar, Mark Lemont, acoustic bass, Johnny Rae, drums, Vince Krolak, trumpet and flugelhorn, Dean Altstaetter, keyboards and trombone, and Stan George and Vernon Neeley, tenor sax.

For details about each performer: http://www.hepcatrevival.com/bios.htm
For photos and videos: http://www.hepcatrevival.com/media.htm

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