The Sweetpea Swing Band has been performing their own unique brand of traditional jazz in and around Vancouver for many years. The band repertoire contains a lively collage of hot jazz music dating back as far as 1916. Although the bands music is firmly rooted in trad jazz, The Sweetpea Swing Band presents their music in a hip, modern style that continues to incite audiences into a dancing frenzy.
The Sweetpea Swing Band presents music by the likes of; Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Joe Oliver, Joe Primrose, Jimmie Noone, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, and Jelly Roll Morton. The music presented by The Sweetpea Swing Band is arranged by band members Tim Sars, Alison Gorman, Andrew Smith, and Sam Scott as well as Vancouver’s own Alan Matheson, Craig Scott, and Lloyd Arntzen.
