Fri 14 November 2025 7:30pm - 10:00pm

Dave Hankin Big Band

at The Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Taunton

£19.00

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THE DAVE HANKIN BIG BAND
Following their highly successful appearance in 2024, The Dave Hankin Big Band return to Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre with their brand new show for 2025.

The performance includes music by the likes of Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Nelson Riddle, Buddy Rich and many more great artists. The band’s shows have been described in the press as ‘jaw-droppingly good’ and ‘exceptional, they could not be bettered.’

This band of highly polished musicians has risen to become the South West’s premier big band featuring quality musicianship and performing a diverse repertoire from Glenn Miller to Maynard Ferguson. Although Dave Hankin decided to give up his post as band leader in 2018 he continues to produce stunning musical arrangements for them.

Many of the band have played along side some of the worlds biggest names in music including Shirley Bassey, Jack Jones, Matt Monro, Cliff Richard, Phil Collins, Syd Lawrence et al.

Current vocal arrangements are very much the order with numbers by Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jnr and Frank Sinatra.

Dave Hankin Big Band

The Dave Hankin Band was formed in November 2007 and began regularly meeting at rehearsals to work on Dave's library of personally-crafted arrangements. The full-size, 17 piece line-up, plus the captivating vocals of Bern Stewart, were soon branching out from the local venues and jazz clubs, and began performing at festivals such as the Looe Festival, The Dart Music Festival, and the Boringdon Hotel Jazz and Ale Festival. Along the way, the band have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with some of the biggest names in British music, with the likes of Gordon Campbell (trombone), Bruce Adams (trumpet) and Alan Barnes (saxophone) joining them for special concerts. In 2015, Dave put together a programme of music to present "Frank Sinatra - The Centennial Celebration". The success of this show, with standing ovations and rave reviews, propelled the band into the production of further themed shows in subsequent years: "The Magic of Michael Buble" and "The Magic of Glenn Miller", each meeting with similar results. Keep an eye out for 2020’s show which is entitled “ IN FULL SWING ” Now developing quite a following, these shows have played to sold-out theatres across the region, including Sterts Arts Centre (Liskeard), The Flavel Arts Centre (Dartmouth), Sterts Theatre(Liskeard), Tacchi-Morris (Taunton), The Palace Theatre (Paignton), and The Watermark (Ivybridge) There are more in the offing, with Dave hard at work preparing new programmes to delight the eagerly awaiting audiences, take a look at the band web site at www.dhbb.co.uk where you will be kept informed of all the exciting upcoming events and player profiles.…

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