We have been out of action due to COVID-19 restrictions for 3 years.
We have returned to making music now.
A Small Band
with a
Big Sound
This small eight piece orchestra was formed by Peter Banting in Ancaster, Ontario in 1999. The group's instrumentation includes: guitar and banjo, bass, drums, trumpet and flugelhorn, alto saxophone and clarinet, tenor saxophone, and trombone. Its members live in the Golden Horseshoe area. They are all experienced professional musicians, who have performed in a variety of musical settings, including pit bands for musicals, marching bands, dance bands, concert bands and symphony orchestras. They got together for the pure joy of playing. In the photo above the SWINGTET performs at Hamilton Mustard Festival.
Swinging Music
The SWINGTET plays the happy, buoyant and melodic popular "standard" tunes of the mid-twentieth century, the big band music that was so captivating during and after the Second World War, and the ever-popular Broadway Show melodies. Their music is bouncy and lyrical -- the stuff you can hum, sing or whistle, such as
"C'est Si Bon," and "Fly Me to the Moon." Their music is infectious.
Variety of Music
In addition to swing music, the SWINGTET also performs Polkas, Dixieland,
Waltzes, Latin music, and Novelty numbers. The SWINGTET plays them all!
Check out the "Swingtet Melodies" top right corner tab
for a listing of some of the names of tunes in our repertoire.
Swingtet Audiences
The SWINGTET has performed at fairs, street festivals an park concerts, at cocktail parties and receptions, has provided dinner music, entertained at dances and weddings, birthdays and anniversaries, and at commercial functions such as store anniversaries, sales meetings, grand openings, customer appreciation days, and employee recognition events. See "where we perform" under the "About" tab, above.
Music for Many
The SWINGTET's music appeals to a number of different groups of people, including business entrepreneurs, bowling club members, church groups, and young professionals. Seniors especially can enjoy and relate to SWINGTET music. It is the music of their generation. The band has performed in Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, for eight annual Seniors’ Jubilees. As a service to the community, the group sets aside Wednesday evenings (their normal weekly rehearsal night) for performances at Golden Horseshoe retirement and seniors' residences, interacting with the residents, telling a few stories, and delighting them with their favourite melodies
Charitable Engagements
As members of the Golden Horseshoe community, the SWINGTET is committed to helping worthy causes. Among those that the band has aided are: Living Rock Ministries' Soupfest (for endangered youth), the Alzheimer’s Society, Breast Cancer and the Canadian Cancer Society.
Fundraising Events
The SWINGTET is happy to help deserving organizations raise funds. They entertained at a black tie gala for the Sir Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation
in Alliston, Ontario, that generated more than $100,000.
A few others include a dance raising money for the 447 Wing in Mount Hope, Ontario, a fund raising dinner/dance for St. Luke’s Anglican Church
in Burlington, Ontario, another at Caledonia Legion Branch 154,
and an outdoor BBQ fundraiser at Cottonwood Mansion in Selkirk, Ontario.
We have returned to making music now.
A Small Band
with a
Big Sound
This small eight piece orchestra was formed by Peter Banting in Ancaster, Ontario in 1999. The group's instrumentation includes: guitar and banjo, bass, drums, trumpet and flugelhorn, alto saxophone and clarinet, tenor saxophone, and trombone. Its members live in the Golden Horseshoe area. They are all experienced professional musicians, who have performed in a variety of musical settings, including pit bands for musicals, marching bands, dance bands, concert bands and symphony orchestras. They got together for the pure joy of playing. In the photo above the SWINGTET performs at Hamilton Mustard Festival.
Swinging Music
The SWINGTET plays the happy, buoyant and melodic popular "standard" tunes of the mid-twentieth century, the big band music that was so captivating during and after the Second World War, and the ever-popular Broadway Show melodies. Their music is bouncy and lyrical -- the stuff you can hum, sing or whistle, such as
"C'est Si Bon," and "Fly Me to the Moon." Their music is infectious.
Variety of Music
In addition to swing music, the SWINGTET also performs Polkas, Dixieland,
Waltzes, Latin music, and Novelty numbers. The SWINGTET plays them all!
Check out the "Swingtet Melodies" top right corner tab
for a listing of some of the names of tunes in our repertoire.
Swingtet Audiences
The SWINGTET has performed at fairs, street festivals an park concerts, at cocktail parties and receptions, has provided dinner music, entertained at dances and weddings, birthdays and anniversaries, and at commercial functions such as store anniversaries, sales meetings, grand openings, customer appreciation days, and employee recognition events. See "where we perform" under the "About" tab, above.
Music for Many
The SWINGTET's music appeals to a number of different groups of people, including business entrepreneurs, bowling club members, church groups, and young professionals. Seniors especially can enjoy and relate to SWINGTET music. It is the music of their generation. The band has performed in Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, for eight annual Seniors’ Jubilees. As a service to the community, the group sets aside Wednesday evenings (their normal weekly rehearsal night) for performances at Golden Horseshoe retirement and seniors' residences, interacting with the residents, telling a few stories, and delighting them with their favourite melodies
Charitable Engagements
As members of the Golden Horseshoe community, the SWINGTET is committed to helping worthy causes. Among those that the band has aided are: Living Rock Ministries' Soupfest (for endangered youth), the Alzheimer’s Society, Breast Cancer and the Canadian Cancer Society.
Fundraising Events
The SWINGTET is happy to help deserving organizations raise funds. They entertained at a black tie gala for the Sir Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation
in Alliston, Ontario, that generated more than $100,000.
A few others include a dance raising money for the 447 Wing in Mount Hope, Ontario, a fund raising dinner/dance for St. Luke’s Anglican Church
in Burlington, Ontario, another at Caledonia Legion Branch 154,
and an outdoor BBQ fundraiser at Cottonwood Mansion in Selkirk, Ontario.
The "SWINGTET entertains at the Locke Street Festival, September, 2014
Pictured at left: In November 2015, we played a Christmas Fundraiser for Dundas Food Bank at Dundas Valley Antiques.
We also played for the 2015 Christmas Concert of the Hamilton Gay Men’s Chorus.
The Peter Banting SWINGTET
performs at a Tribute
to LCol Don Irish, CD
in September, 2014 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
in Hamilton `