Archive for 29 June 2007

Sing Sing Sing at Northwest Folklife Festival

When Bonnie and the Eckstein Middle School Jazz Band performed at Seattle’s Northwest Folklife Festival on Friday of Memorial Day Weekend, 2007, something unusual happened. When they began performing one of their signature pieces, Benny Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing, I heard the low, powerful rumble of a large airplane and looked up and watched in amazement as a WWII-era B-17 flew directly overhead. The last time that happened, Benny Goodman himself may have been performing, perhaps 60 years ago. There are only seven or eight remaining flight worthy B-17s, and this particular one I believe is owned by the Boeing Flight Museum, although it’s usually on tour somewhere else.

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