Thank you for "tuning in" to the SUMMERSET BIG BAND website. The SUMMERSET BIG BAND was formed in May of 2006 as a “rehearsal band” within the Summerset retirement community.  At that time there were nine members. The band has now grown to a core complement of fourteen, plus “alumni” and alternates, all talented musicians from the Brentwood-Antioch area of Eastern Contra Costa County.  The band is comprised of five saxophones, four trombones, four trumpets, piano, bass, and drums.

The Summerset Big Band has played to the delight of thousands people who enjoy listening and/or dancing as the band interprets the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, and others. It fills a musical gap for folks, many of whom become emotional because of the wonderful memories brought back by the band's nostalgic music. Audiences cheer when the band performs a slow, melodic tune such as "Moonlight Serenade", (theme song); ups the tempo with "Two O’clock Jump"; or a vocal rendering of Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York."

Any funds collected are either used for expenses or are donated to charity. The band has helped to raise approximately sixty thousand dollars during the past few years for such great causes as the American Cancer Society, Agape Villages (foster care), Summerset Veterans Club, and Brentwood's "A Place of Learning," Antioch HS Band Boosters & Heritage HS Band Boosters.

The SUMMERSET BIG BAND is available for all occasions.

E-mail us at:

mikes@summersetbigband.org or jnpeddicord@summersetbigband.org

Or call:

Mike Spellman (business manager) (925) 202-1041

Jim Peddicord (director) (925) 628-1327