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“Blame It on the Bossa Nova” Dance Party Featuring the diverse dance music of “Dick Cunico’s Little Big Band”

Presented by Stargazers Theatre & Event Center at Stargazers Theatre & Event Center

October 1, 2011

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Stargazers’ Variety Dance Night … where You are the dancing Star!
Our hardwood stage will be your dance floor. “Dick Cunico’s Little Big Band” will keep feet flashing with tunes for many diverse dance styles including *the Fox Trot, *country line dance, *East Coast Swing, *the Tango, *Salsa, *Country 2-step, *Rock and Roll, *Cha Cha, *ballad slow dance, *the Jitterbug, *R & B, *the waltz, *country 10-step, *the Bossa Nova, *Country Swing, *the Samba, *West Coast Swing, and *the Rumba.
The “Dick Cunico's Little Big Band” is a six-piece ensemble that performs contemporary and standard swing, blues, rock, R&B, country, Dixieland, and Ballroom Dance Music. Band members include Brad Eastin (tenor sax), Chris Wojtecki (alto sax), Chris Walters (trumpet), Louise Wilson (trombone), Phil Schwartz (guitar/vocals), and Dick Cunico (drums/vocals).
The group’s colorful musical arrangements feature every member of this versatile ensemble. The resulting sound is a unique and robust expression of an American original art form as well as high class cover material--dance music at its finest.
Dick Cunico has performed and/or recorded with many jazz greats including Howard Levy (Bela Fleck), Eric Marienthal (Chick Corea), Steve Bailey (Dizzy Gillespie & The Rippingtons), and Skitch Henderson (NBC Orchestra). He has also performed in The Beverly Hillbillies Movie, The Thing Called Love, When a Man Loves a Women, Brain Donors, Burke’s Law, and Thirty Something.