About Us
The Empire Swing Orchestra is an 18 piece swing band consisting of local professionals with a love for the jazz classics of the swing era.
Mission and Purpose
Comprised of musicians from the Riverside area, the Empire Swing Orchestra is a non-profit organization that encourages and actively promotes the highest standards of creativity, performance, and education in music in the community.
Further purposes are to provide charitable contributions to our local arts programs, to instill in all people an awareness of music's important role in the enrichment of the human spirit, and to foster a fellowship between all musicians.
Events
The Empire Swing Orchestra is regularly contracted for:
- Weddings
- Birthday parties
- Business events
- Private parties
- Civic events
Given the dynamic range of these events we also custom match our musical set-lists and hand pick the songs to match the energy level as well as the clientele that will be present. Such considerations include:
- Purpose of event
- Themes
- Age range of guests
- Socializing music
- Dinner music
- Dancing music
Music
The Empire Swing Orchestra mainly performs the swing classics from the 20's to the 50's but is also comfortable adding complementary tunes to the musical routine. Most recently the bride pre-requested for a special "surprise" song to sing to her husband. We specially ordered the piece, rehearsed, and performed "Can't take my eyes off of you" while the bride serenaded her husband to the cheers of her guests.
Our music library covers 8,230 classic "big band" songs with 200 songs readily on-hand to perform at a minutes notice.
Members
The Empire Swing Orchestra is a full sized big-band that regularly performs with 18 musicians that include the following:
- 4 Trumpets
- 4 Trombones
- 5 Saxophones
- Drums
- Bass
- Piano
- Guitar
- Vocals
