The Santa Maria Valley Senior Citizens Club hosts its 1960s-themed dance party, with live music from the Riptide Big Band, at the Elwin Mussell Senior Center in Santa Maria on Sunday, Oct. 13, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Admission to the event is free, thanks to grant funding from the Community Foundation of San Luis Obispo County, according to press materials.
Vocalists Bob Nations and Mitch Latting will accompany the Riptide Big Band during the dance concert. Based in the Santa Maria Valley, the local ensemble is led by former music teacher Judy Lindquist and has played at venues across Central Coast for several years.
The group includes musicians from both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and specializes in big band era music, soft rock from the ’60s and ’70s, the music standards of the ’30s and ’40s, and “pretty much anything written for standard big band orchestration,” according to the group’s website.
For more info on the band’s upcoming performance, call (775) 813-5186 or visit riptidebb.com. The Elwin Mussell Senior Center is located at 510 Park Ave., Santa Maria.
To find out more about the Community Foundation of San Luis Obispo County, call (805) 543-2323 or visit cfsloco.org. Δ
This article appears in Oct 10-20, 2024.