Salem grad -- and big band leader -- comes home for show Sept. 20Posted Sep05, 2008 at 11:18 AM Doug Bowles is a 1984 graduate of Salem High School -- and later a graduate of Roanoke College. He now leads a big band in the D.C. area. And we mean "big band" as in the big band era. He's coming home for a show Sept. 20 at Roanoke College. Here are the details, with another photo below: Roanoke College Presents Doug Bowles and his SingCo Rhythm Orchestra In A Big Band Tribute Concert A Tribute America's Greatest Big Bands Featuring the SingCo Rhythm Orchestra Live onstage at Olin Theatre of Roanoke College in Salem, Virgina, Doug Bowles and his SingCo Rhythm Orchestra perform a swinging live big-band tribute show featuring charts by SingCo's fabulous staff of arrangers. The band will feature arrangements from some of the best big bands of the hot jazz and swing era. Beloved songs and lesser known tunes from the 1920s to the mid-1950s will be showcased, along with a special tribute to the World War II generation drawn from Doug Bowles' G.I. Jive: Letters from the War. Saturday, September 20, 2008  |
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