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Swing Dance Summertown Speakeasy
with The Cutting Edge Big Band

The Cherwell School North Site, Oxford, OX2 7EE

Saturday, 17th May 2025
Doors open 7:30pm

Tickets from £12.00*
at Swing Dance Summertown

* Members price - Non-members £15.00. Booking charges apply.

8:00pm - 11:00pm

Swing Dance Summertown are pleased to announce Speakeasy Live featuring one of the region’s top Big Swing Bands playing live throughout the night on Saturday 17th May 2025. Get your dancing shoes ready for a night of Big Band Jazz Swing and social dancing.

The Cutting Edge Big Band are an 19-piece, Oxford-based jazz orchestra. They reproduce the exciting sounds of the big band era; playing magical songs from the 30, 40s and beyond. They headlined the Friday night at The 2023 Oxford Swing Festival and we are very pleased to provide the Speakeasy Stage to them for our first Big Band live performance of 2025.

Tickets are limited. Online booking essential.

To book visit Swing Dance Summertown*.

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Friday 20th June
Cornerstone Theatre, Didcot, OX11 7NE

Doors open ~7.00pm. Band onstage 7:30pm.

A concert performance by the Cutting Edge Big Band, including all their favourites from the Swing Era & contemporary Big Band numbers.

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“The Cutting Edge Big Band delivers a stylish and exciting, big-band sound”

Beautiful melodies and joyously
toe-tapping rhythms from
serious musicians who love playing

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Whether wistful ballads or stomping dance numbers, this is classy entertainment in a variety of settings, with a set list tailored to every event.

The repertoire is rooted in the classic swing era of the '30s and '40s. Those days of romance: glamour, moonshine and tuxedos, the excitement of Harlem and invention of wild, new dance crazes. Think wartime tunes made famous by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Glenn Miller.

Then there are the mid-century classics that everyone knows - Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Dean Martin; and even the occasional tune from Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Billy Joel, or the achingly cool Astrud Gilberto. Great melodies that have been sung by everyone from Rod Stewart to Michael Bublé to Robbie Williams.

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Including 5 saxes, 4 trombones, 4 trumpets, full rhythm section, and fabulous band leader. Also featuring guest vocals for added swing.

PUBLIC PERFORMANCES

We perform day or night at charity, corporate, private and civic events, including weddings, dinner-dances, gala events, landmark openings, even at riverside pub gardens on balmy summer afternoons.

PERFORMING SINCE 1982

The band is now led by Chris Macklow, a man of easy vintage charm and smooth sophistication. His apparently laid-back style hides a ruthless attention to detail.

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The Cutting Edge Big Band pictured at the Westgate, Oxford on November 11th 2017.

Many thanks to Steve Foster for the pictures and Steve White for the audio recording.

Many thanks to Steve White for the audio recordings.

Cutting Edge Big Band performing at the opening of the Westgate Centre, Oxford.

Lindy hop dancers at the Winter Lights Festival in Witney, Oxfordshire.

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NEXT GIGS

Saturday, 17th May 2025
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

The Cherwell School, Oxford
OX2 7EE, UK
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Friday, 20th June 2025
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Cornerstone Theatre, Didcot
OX11 7NE, UK
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More public gigs coming soon...

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CONTACT & BOOKINGS

EMAIL » info@cuttingedgebigband.com