<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h2 class="band-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.2em 0px 1em; margin: 0px 0px -0.3em; border: 0px; line-height: 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#ffffff" style="font-family: museo_sans300, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 1.2em;" class="">THE CONCERT THAT NEVER WAS”: TRIBUTE TO FRANK & BILLIE FT. DAVE BANKS BIG BAND </font><span style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 21px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px;" class="">Akron</span><span style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px;" class="">’</span><span style="font-size: 21px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px;" class="">s own Dave Banks Big Band returns to BLUJazz Akron, 47 E. Market Street in Akron, Ohio in a special tribute to two of the 20th century</span><span style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px;" class="">’</span><span style="font-size: 21px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px;" class="">s biggest contributors to jazz, Frank Sinatra & Billie Holiday, in a centennial celebration of their birth for an unforgettable night of big band jazz at its finest! The evening will feature Canton</span><span style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px;" class="">’s </span><span style="font-size: 21px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px;" class="">Michael Sonata & Akron</span><span style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px;" class="">’s best kept secret, </span><span style="font-size: 21px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px;" class="">Mery White portraying the sounds of Frank and Billie! The band will also perform some of their signature features.</span></font></span></h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: -0.5px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 21px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class="">Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday are an inherent part of America’s hearts, each having left a lasting impression through their gifts of song. The two were also linked by more than a shared birth year (1915): the singers exerted a powerful pull on one another as muses, holding each other in the highest regard as musical influences.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""> <br style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">While Sinatra & Holiday’s individual stories unfolded in very different ways, we are remembering them both with a very exciting musical tribute featuring Akron’s own, Dave Banks Big Band, in a one-night-only concert event at BLU Jazz+!</font></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: -0.5px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 21px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-size: 21px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class="">Only 30 tickets remain for this show, so grab them! BluJazz is a marvelous venue to see live music. I hope to see you NEOHIOPAL friends there! For tickets, go to: </font></span><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.5px;" class=""><a href="http://blujazzakron.com/show/the-concert-that-never-was-tribute-to-frank-billie-ft-dave-banks-big-band-12-19-2015/" class="">http://blujazzakron.com/show/the-concert-that-never-was-tribute-to-frank-billie-ft-dave-banks-big-band-12-19-2015/</a></span></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.5px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.5px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></body></html>