Jazz dinner-dance set for Saturday

Where new school meets old school.

The Stardust Big Band once again joins the Sequim High School Jazz Band at the annual Jazz Dinner Dance, set for Saturday, Feb. 2, at the SHS cafeteria, 601 N. Sequim Ave.

Hosted by the Sequim High School Band Boosters, the event opens at 6 p.m. with music starting at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets for the event, with includes a Southern fried chicken dinner, are $25 per person or $45 per couple. Get tickets at: Sequim Animal Hospital, 202 N. Seventh Ave.; Full Moon Candle Co., 609 W. Washington St. No. 13, and Sequim High School.

A veteran band of the Sequim music scene for the past 20 years, the Stardust Big Band play classics from Swing Era luminaries Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Woody Herman, as well as contemporary artists.

The SHS Jazz band is an elite, audition-based band led by director Vern Fosket.

SHS’s Band Boosters are raising money for all band programs, including new marching band uniforms.