Tag: Mobile Big Band

Valentine dinner/dance at USS Alabama Battleship Park February 9

The closest thing the state has to an official Valentine’s event is on Friday, February 9 at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park.

Mobile Big Band is a walk-back to the Swing Era

The Mobile Big Band is Alabama’s version of New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Band, only the music genres are different. In New Orleans, you hear Bourbon Street’s Dixieland jazz.  In Mobile, you hear swing, big band, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller.