The Sound Dunes Swing Ensemble (SDSE) performed our 2023 penultimate public Holiday Concert this past Thursday for the Cape Cod Alzheimer’s Family Support Center (AFSC) event a the Cape Cod Cultural Center (photos attached).

Hailed as one of the best times SDSE bandmembers have ever had during a performance, Thursday’s AFSC Holiday program raised the bar for Holiday festivities. Everyone was in a festive mood and the CC Cultural Center was decorated in an amazingly magical fashion! Attendees sang, danced, and enjoyed audience participation interludes, and everyone appeared to have a great time!

If you missed Thursday’s SDSE Holiday Program, your last chance to catch it this year will be Wednesday at noon at the Chatham Community Center for the Chatham CoA sponsored event. More information can be found on the SDSE Facebook page. It is recommended that you call for reservations (508-945-5190).

Feel free to share this with your friends, neighbors, and other family members for this FREE EVENT —-

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

(Photo acknowledgements to Mary St. George and Corey Russo)

The next public appearance of the Sound Dunes Swing Ensemble (SDSE) will be on Sunday, October 15, at the Alzheimer’s Family Support Center (AFSC) Walk for Alzheimer’s in Provincetown.

So come up to Provincetown this Sunday and join in the fun while supporting a very worthy cause. SDSE will be providing great music for your listening, singing, and dancing enjoyment. This annual fundraiser and celebration raises crucial funds to support free services through the AFSC of Cape Cod for families of those living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related diseases. The walk begins at noon with free food, music and dancing to follow.

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HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

The next public appearance of the Sound Dunes Swing Ensemble will be on Tuesday, September 12, at the Harwich Community Center. The concert will begin at 6pm and light refreshments will be served.

Please join us for an evening of great music from the 30’s thru the 70’s featuring our 18 piece “big band” with 2 terrific vocalists. We will be bringing a broad spectrum of musical styles for your listening and dancing pleasure. There will also be some added surprises involving audience participation that should be lots of fun.

Feel free to share this invitation with your friends, neighbors, and other family members to this FREE concert —-

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The next public appearance of the Sound Dunes Swing Combo will be this Monday’s FREE Concert on the Eastham Windmill Green at the Bandstand on July 17. The concert will begin at 7pm. The Eastham Windmill Green is located at 2500 State Highway 6 (Route 6) across from the Eastham Town Hall. The concert is sponsored by the Eastham Visitor Service Board. Although the windmill is located in Eastham, it was originally constructed by Eastham resident Thomas Paine in Plymouth in 1680 and is the oldest windmill on Cape Cod.

Toss a chair or blanket in the car, pack a picnic basket and join your family and friends for some toe-tapping entertainment.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

The next public appearance of the Sound Dunes Swing Ensemble will be a Joint Concert with New Horizons Band of Cape Cod to be held at the Dennis-Yarmouth High School Auditorium on Monday, June 26. The concert will begin at 3pm with the New Horizons Band. SDSE will take the stage after a short re-setup of the seating arrangement of the stage.

Look for New Horizons Band director, Alex Pendleton, to be sitting in with the SDSE folks when they perform their portion of the concert.

While admission to the double concert is FREE, donations and non-perishable food items will be accepted for the Cape Cod Food Pantry.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

SAVE THE DATE! SATURDAY, MAY 20TH 11 AM TO 2 PM

THE DAVID BIRTWELL MEMORIAL WALK FOR ALZHEIMERS

SCUSSET BEACH STATE PARK

BOURNE, MA.

Join the Alzheimer’s Family Support Center and The Sound Dunes Big Band for the annual David Birtwell Walk for Alzheimers. Take a leisurely walk along the beautiful Cape Cod Canal, enjoy live music by a 20-piece swing band for your listening, singing, and dancing pleasure, and partake of some scrumptious eats!

Here’s a sample of the music we will be doing: https://www.facebook.com/corey.russo.39/videos/191020197212220

ENJOY!

TO REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BIRTWELL WALK AND / OR TO DONATE TO THIS MOST WORTHY CAUSE GO TO: https://www.alzfamilysupport.org/…/2023-dave-birtwell…

WE HOPE WE SEE YOU THERE!

Join the Sound Dunes Combo as the Dennis Center for Active Living launches Older Americans Month 2023—Aging Unbound!—with a picnic celebration on May 1 from noon to 2pm. The celebration will include a career fair for workers of all ages with recruiters from the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority, Elder Services, and others. Attendees will be able view the completed Dennis Center for Active Living community patio and learn about opportunities for engagement.!

Great news for everyone looking for a safe way to celebrate the Halloween weekend with their children! Because of predicted inclement weather this Sunday, Dennis Village “Locally Thrown Events” has moved their Halloween Hootenanny event from this weekend to Sunday, October 30th!

The activity starts around 11 – 11:15AM with a musician-led parade from the Playhouse to the businesses in the area (for Trick or Treating).  

From noon to about 1:00 PM there will be food, entertainment and activities on the Playhouse lawn and over by the Cape Cod Museum of Art. The SOUND DUNES SWING ENSEMBLE will be set up on the lawn of the Playhouse providing more than an hour of music and dancing. Come hang out with us as we play some great music, while rocking our Halloween costumes, as well! Hope to see you there!

Ever since mid-June when the Sound Dunes Swing Combo started holding “open rehearsals” at the Dennis Center for Active Living @ the Dennis Senior Center, the popularity of those rehearsals has gained traction with the Senior Center and its members. In the most recent (July/August 2022) edition of The Cranberry Scoop, DCAL’s Newsletter, the rehearsals made the “front page”, as well as being highlighted two additional times within the newsletter.

As a reminder, if you are interested in attending one or more of the upcoming FREE rehearsals, they are being held every other Tuesday in July and August…..the next open rehearsal is scheduled for July 12 at 1:00pm. Attendees are required to register at the front desk or by calling: 508 – 694 – 2005. Come listen, dance, and enjoy the LIVE music. Light refreshments are provided.