What's New?

The Railway Swing Band has a packed 2012 concert programme and the dates are shown on the Upcoming Concerts page.

VACANCIES - The Railway Swing Band is in need of a TRUMPET PLAYER and a DRUMMER at grade 6 - 8 standard. If you are interested in a rare opportunity to play in a big band please contact Dave White on 0797 376 1651.

NEW YEAR - NEW REHEARSAL VENUE.... Rehearsals are now being held at St. Mary's Church, Sandwich and a photo from the first rehearsal on 4 January 2012 is below.

As well as providing an entertaining big band show selected from the swing greats such as Ellington, Goodman, Basie, Miller, Kenton, Herman etc and a few more modern compositions these concerts will help to raise many thousands of pounds for various charities and good causes. You can read a review of our concert at The Gulbenkian, Canterbury in April 2011 by clicking here.

Photos from a number of our concerts have been loaded on to our Photo Gallery.

We have recently released our  third CD entitled Our Sounds. Details of all our CDs can be found here. If you have not been to one of our concerts before, the tracks on the CDs will give you an idea of the music that you are likely to hear, although it is only a small sample of our repertoire. 

We are on YOUTUBE. We hope that you will enjoy the videos and it would be great if you could give us some feedback on the performances by voting whether you like the video or not and/or leaving a comment. You can see some an excerpt from our Christmas Concert last year by clicking the box below (please wait a few seconds for the website music to finish first). 

The July 2011 edition of the Lyminge Newsletter reports on page 12 that the band's 2011 concert at Elham Village Hall raised approximately 650 pounds for the Elham Valley and Wye Lions Club charity fund.

The band have received a mention on the Help For Heroes website under latest news. On Archived News page 66 under the heading Canterbury Lions Club it reports that the concert on 6th October 2010 at the Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury which was organised by the Canterbury Lions Club raised 1,200 pounds for Help for Heroes.

A track by The Railway Swing Band was played on Fine Music Radio which is broadcast in Cape Town, South Africa and online on 19th October 2011 during The Jazz Lounge with Vernon Varty. It is hoped that more tracks will feature in future shows which are broadcast on a Wednesday between 6p.m. - 7p.m. (U.K. time).

Dave White, the band's Director of Music, was interviewed by Bill Rennells for BBC Radio Kent, BBC Oxford and BBC Berkshire. The interview was broadcast on 28 November 2010 with a couple of Railway Swing Band recordings played at the start and finish of the interview.

We have a Guest Book for our guests to post any comments that they may have, Please Sign this if you can spare just one minute. Please take a look at the new 'Band Forum' & 'Photo gallery' links on the left, which will take you to the Bands discussion forum and the Band Photo gallery!! Feel free to register and post your comments and discussion topics. You can start any topic of your choice or list any Musical instruments you are looking to sell or buy. Please read the FAQ carefully. Also register to the Photo gallery and submit your own photo to share online with your fellow Band members.

In addition to the photos on the Photo gallery page of this site, there are a number of other photos of the band in the studio and in concert on FACEBOOK.

We are in the process of completely reviewing and updating our website so some pages may not be fully completed. Please bear with us during this time and hopefully you will find the fully updated website useful and informative once all the changes have been completed.

This Forum is completely safe and will only be used by Band Members and close friends of the RSB.

Also the Musicians link has been updated.......!