Big Band Dancing for All Occasions

They have been featured many times at The Royal Canadian Big Band Festival, in London, Ontario, and for eight years at the Royal Bank Seniors' Jubilee at Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. Other performances have included The Applause Ball at the Shaw Festival, The Viennese Ball for the K-W Symphony, the opening of the Drayton Festival, and The Maturity Show (London, Hamilton, Kitchener, and Toronto). They have also played dinner dances at the Walper Terrace Hotel and at Bingemans Lodge in Kitchener, Big Band Cruises for Great Canadian Coaches including a show in Hamilton with The Mantini Sisters. On a regular basis, you will find The Twilites performing monthly dances in Guelph at the Desert Inn on Highway 7.

The group was formed by the late Bob Jeans, the former manager of the University Club, University of Waterloo. Today, The Twilites consists almost entirely of retirees, all originally from various professions, including a few professional musicians too.

How they were formed: Bob Jeans and several others, all being former full- or part-time musicians, used to meet Friday mornings for coffee in Guelph and reminisce about the "good old days" of the Big Band Era, and the long-lived success of bands like Guy Lombardo and The Royal Canadians. So they decided to form a band in that same tradition to perform to dancers and Big Band fans in the Central Ontario area.

All the reed players double on clarinet, and sometimes even triple on flute. The band also carries a variety of percussion equipment to add authenticity to their latin-american selections.

Everywhere they go, The Twilites are sure to make dancing and reminiscing an all-round pleasurable experience of lasing musical enjoyment.
 

Recordings

A collection of their distinct sounds can be heard on Compact Disc and Cassette.

Their debut recording is entitled: "Music for Dancing and Reminiscing"

Selections on the CD/Cassette:

Lucky Star
Medley: South of the Border; There's No Tomorrow; Wish You Were Here
Glenn's Tunes (Glenn Miller Medley)
Medley: Mexicali Rose; Pretty Baby; It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
Begin the Beguine (Latin-American version)
Angry (vocal)
Medley: Moon Over Miami; Glory of Love; Never in a Million Years
I Love You (Latin-American version)
Everywhere You Go (vocal)
An Eddie Howard Medley
Medley: Day In-Day Out; You're Driving Me Crazy; I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Shanty in Old Shanty Town (band vocal)
The Waltz You Saved For Me
Wunderbar
Four Leaf Clover (Polka)
Medley: Miss You; Linda; Once in a While
You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

CDs are $20 and cassettes are $15 each, taxes and shipping included. Make cheques and money orders payable to "The Twilites".

For CDs, cassettes, a list of upcoming dances and concerts, and booking information, contact:

The Twilites
c/o John Hamilton
RR #22 (4228)
Cambridge-Hespeler, Ontario
CANADA N3C 2V4
Phone: 519-822-9924
EMail: valenciaretrievers@sympatico.ca

In Kitchener, call Bob Riepert at 519-570-4805

2008 Performance Schedule

Evergreen Senior Centre, Guelph, 8pm Dances, Call 519-823-1291:
January 19
March 15
May 17
June 7
September 6
November 8 

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