Messing around with GarageBand while sheltering

4/21/2020

Spent the day messing around with apps on my iPad, particularly GarageBand. I’ve had the iPad for three(?) years, but never really wrapped my head around it. Fun stuff! Below, the fruits of my labor. Be kind, it isn’t like I went into the studio or anything...lol. At any rate, I’m going to keep makin’ ‘em. It’s nice to be creating...

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Chris Six

Chris has been involved with big band, jazz and dance bands for over 30 years in central and southeastern Pennsylvania, the Washington DC metro region and the four-state area of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. A multi-instrumentalist, Chris has also performed in symphonic bands, brass quintets, orchestras and pit orchestras. He has served as a featured vocalist with the Swing Fever Dance Band and Brooks Tegler Big Band. Chris served as president of the Swing Fever Dance Band in 2002 and was a founding member of the Sound Advice Big Band. Chris is open to all opportunities and genres of music, and is happy playing any book in a section.

Samples:

WITH THE SWING FEVER DANCE BAND

Instruments: Trombone, trumpet, vocals, valve trombone, superbone, flugelhorn, mellophone and euphonium.

Interests/Experience: Big Band, Dance Band, Lab Band, Small Group Jazz, Swing, Trad/Hot Jazz, Western Swing, Great American Songbook, Barbershop, Harmony Groups, Rock, R&B, Soul, Funk, Country, Eclectic, Symphonic Bands, Orchestras, Pit Orchestra

Selected venues and events:

Sunnybrook Ballroom, Pottstown, PA
Long’s Park, Lancaster, PA
Pat Garrett Amphitheater, Strausstown, PA
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend, Reading, PA
Olympian Ballroom, West Reading, PA
SS John Brown/Project Liberty Ship
MS Sovereign of the Seas, Royal Caribbean
Spanish Ballroom Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD
Blues Alley, Washington, DC
Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD
Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Washington, DC
George Washington Hotel, Winchester, VA
National World War II Reunion on the Mall, May 27-30, 2004
Apollo Civic Theatre, Martinsburg, WV
The Old Opera House, Charles Town, WV

Jazz Ensembles:

Sound Advice Big Band – Trumpet, Trombone and co-director
Swing Fever Dance Band – Trumpet, Trombone and Vocals
The Let’s Dance Orchestra – Trumpet and Trombone
The Brooks Tegler Big Band – Trumpet, Trombone and Vocals
For Dancers Only – Trombone
Swingin' Harmony - Trombone
Yesterday Swing Orchestra - Trombone
The Jordan English Jazz Orchestra– Trombone
Brass Impact brass quintet - Trombone

Recordings: Swing Fever Dance Band: Something to Swing About: 20 Years of Swing Fever