Georgia Strait Big Band plays at Simms Park Sunday, June 15!

The free Simms Summer Concerts return to Simms Millenium Park this month with free live music on Sundays throughout the summer. The season opener is the Georgia Strait Big Band on Sunday, June 15 at 7 p.m.

Come enjoy the sound of Big Band! The Georgia Strait Big Band is a community-based band that attracts musicians of all ages mastering their sound with weekly rehearsals from September to June. The band has been together for 18 years, with a music library that has grown to about 350 arrangements.

Conductor Greg Bush will lead the 18-person band at Simms Park. Bush has recently retired as a professor of jazz studies at Vancouver Island University and is also a jazz composer and arranger.