Summer Swing Fling Big Band

The Summer Swing Fling Band is a big band comprised of the best high school and college musicians from the Greater Philadelphia and New Jersey areas. In its second year of existence, the Band was designed for the purpose of providing students with a meaningful ensemble experience during their time away from school. The Band is a non-profit organization, and all directors are unpaid volunteers. The sole purpose of the band is for educational experience only. Joe Bongiovi, Rob Reeve, and Yargo Papadakis founded the band in 2003 after a dismal conversation about all the good students they knew of that would probably not touch their instruments the entire summer.