Out & About: It's a 'Swingin' Christmas Spectacular' with Glass City

For folks who like Frank Sinatra, big band music and Christmas, Ferrante’s Lakeview was the place to be Dec. 13 for “A Swingin’ Christmas Spectacular” with Glass City Swing Band.

Event host was GCSB Arts, Education and Wellness, the band’s sponsoring organization.

The band set up in a cheerfully decorated banquet room for the event that included dinner, basket raffle and dancing to the sounds of Old Blue Eyes and the very merry season.

Vocalists included Tyler Brignone and Caryn Dettling.

Guests also had the opportunity to pin pledge envelopes to a Giving Tree, in support of GCSB’s Swingin’ with Creative Arts Therapies (SCAT) program, a partnership with Clelian Heights.

The program introduces people with special needs, including physical, intellectual and emotional disabilities, to musical instruments and the music of the Swing Era. It also illustrates the twofold GCSB mission of promoting disabilities awareness and arts therapies, and preserving history through music, specifically that of the Swing Era.

Co-founders and sisters Jill Procida and Joy Procida performed with the band.

Seen at Lakeview: Larry and Anita Leonard, Pat and Toni McCormick, Bill and Lisa Lauer, Richard and Carol Sheats, Nick and Sarah Damico, Bob and Barbara Bernard, Joe and Dorothea Cremonese, Galen and Sandy Weaver, Bill and Linda Beer, Loretta Shabella, Fran Gigliotti, Tom and Heather Smith, Marty and Connie Kovacs and Doug Leonard and Becky Nesbitt.