STAGE DOOR CANTEEN

THE BIG BAND SOUND

www.stagedoorcanteen.net

CREDITS, including but not limited to:

Functions

InterContinental Hotel

Boston, MA

Mechanic’s Hall

Worcester, MA

Harbor View Hotel

Edgartown, MA Seacrest Resort Falmouth, MA

Skyroom New Bedford, MA

Cpt. Linnell House Orleans, MA

Mountain Top Resort Chittenden, VT

Canochet Beach Club Narragansett, RI

Sheraton Hotel Boston, MA

Wequassett Resort Harwich, MA

Moody Mountain Farm Wolfsboro, NH

Hyannisport Club Hyannisport, MA

Red Lion Inn

Stockbridge, MA

Oysters Harbor Club

Osterville, MA

Spray Beach Inn

Beach Haven, NJ The Cape Codder

Hyannis, MA

The Hilton

Stanford, CT

Ocean’s Edge

Brewster, MA Warren Center

Ashland, MA Heritage Plantation

Sandwich, MA Beechmoor

Buzzard’s Bay, MA

…and appearances in private homes, foundations, and businesses throughout the Northeast

Gigs

Monthly Residence at Liam Maguire’s Irish Pub, sponsored by Guinness

Monthly Residence at Canal Club/Trowbridge Tavern (and former steady gigs, including: The Moorings, Jailhouse Tavern, The

Dome, The Landfall, The Nimrod, Biz Street Pub, Tommy Doyle’s)

Tours and Festivals

***DUBLIN, IRELAND 2007***

Sugar Club Bleu Note Radisson Blu Ramor Theater

***CHICAGO, IL 2012*** Fitzgerald’s Nightclub Reggie’s Music Joint Gallery Cabaret Provincetown Jazz Festival, Falmouth Jazz Festival, POPS by the Sea

(twice as the penultimate opener for the Boston POPS), Barnstable County Fair,

ARTS ALIVE, Cotuit Arts Center, Cape Cod Cultural Center, Cape Cod Jazz

Festival, Citizen’s Bank Summer Concert Series, Bourne Scallop Festival

~ Founded in the spring of 1992 by alto saxophonist Roger Gamache, the

legendary Stage Door Canteen is no ordinary big band. For two decades, they

have brought unbridled energy and unparalleled elegance to special gatherings

and memorable events across New England… and beyond.

Long considered one of the top function bands in the region, Stage Door

Canteen prides itself on versatility as both a pulse-pounding dance band and a

top-notch concert ensemble. They have performed many hundreds of weddings

and private parties spanning the entire human spectrum, and they are fully

capable entertaining a crowd of music lovers from any stage.

At the heart of Stage Door Canteen stands a massive horn section. There is

simply something different about the big band sound. Drawing energy not from

a synthesizer or turntable, but from the wind and spirit of twelve real

musicians, there is no other experience like a great American big band; it will

awaken something primitive in your DNA, the restless spirit that drifted up the

mighty Mississippi and took hold in the servicemen who won The War.

A musical tour de force, Stage Door Canteen hits an audience with everything:

from the unmistakable jump-swing of the early big band era, to the blistering

arrangements of the latter day big bands, to horn-band standards by Chicago

EW&F and Tower of Power, to the Latin sounds of Tito Puente and the Mambo

Kings, to the fiery Celtic strains of pipes and whistles, to hip-shaking Motown,

to unbelievable reinventions of radio hits by Van Morrison and the B52s.

Stage Door Canteen is a seasoned outfit comprised of some of the most

polished professional musicians in southern New England. Members include

professors from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, veterans of the Army

and Navy bands, directors of some of the finest school band programs in

Massachusetts, and award-winning freelance musicians. Entering their third

decade together, they have entertained from high atop the Green Mountains of

Vermont to the whirling carnivals of the Jersey Shore, from the rocky coastline

of Maine to the smooth sands of the Narragansett, from the cobble-lined

riverbanks of Dublin, Ireland to the windswept sky-scape of Chicago, Illinois.

GUARANTEED to satisfy audiences from every generation, there is simply no

other band like Stage Door Canteen. Bring the big band sound to your special

event, concert, festival, or venue and nothing will ever be the same. ~

Repertoire

STAGE DOOR CANTEEN performs horn-fueled DANCE & CONCERT music spanning the entire history of the American Recording Industry, an absolutely

incredible “one-and-only” show

from the legendary big bands of

Glen Miller, Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich,

and all the great Jazz Singers

from Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, to Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to modern repertory big band

new arrangements featuring the best in contemporary jazz ensemble writing from the music of Motown and Memphis

James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Dusty Springfield, Eddie Flloyd, Etta James, Otis

Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Martha & the Vandellas, The Supremes to Radio Gold from the 60s, 70s, and 80s

The Beatles, Blood Sweat & Tears, B52s, Chicago, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Earth Wind and Fire, J. Geils Band, The Kinks, Steely Dan, Steve Winwood,

Tower of Power, U2, Van Morrison… and more!

Contact

Roger Gamache, Proprietor James Thomas, Promoter gwmusic@comcast.net capetrombone@yahoo.com

(508) 685-9606 (508) 246-2600

Media

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www.facebook.com/stagedoorcanteen

www.gigmasters.com/big-band/Stage-Door-Canteen

www.gigsalad.com/stage_door_canteen_mashpee

and check us out on youtube on channel Roger Gamache