Swing Along to Looney Tunes and More at The Queen’s Cartoonists
The Queen’s Cartoonists
OSKALOOSA, IA — Swing along to music from Looney Tunes, Star Wars, Disney classics, Merry Melodies, The Simpsons and more with a musical group dedicated to playing all your cartoon favorites! The Queen’s Cartoonists bring their unique mix of cartoon music and comedy to the George Daily Auditorium stage on Thursday, November 10 at 7:30 p.m
The Queen’s Cartoonists offer a tour-de-force of the Swing Era’s zaniest and most creative music, much of which was written or adapted for classic cartoons. The band’s repertoire includes cartoon music from the 1920’s all the way to present day. The show is fast-paced, filled with wild swing music, virtuosic performances, and hilarious anecdotes relating the stories of the cartoons to the audience. Be prepared to hear numbers by John Williams, Danny Elfman, Raymond Scott, John Kirby, Karl Stalling, Alf Clausen, and countless others! Thrown in are anecdotes and jokes about the cartoons, breathing new life into classic favorites.
“We have some cool outreach coming with The Queen’s Cartoonists,” said Andy McGuire, the Education Director at the auditorium. “They’ve supplied local art classes with four of their songs. An elementary class is creating flipbooks and the two high school classes are doing stuff with video and animation and some of it will be part of the performance and some of it will be displayed in the lobby.”
The band, based in Queens, New York, is on a musical mission based on music preservation, music education, and live performance. The heyday of swing music may have passed, but the six cats of The Queen’s Cartoonists help keep the music alive in the memories of anyone who grew up watching cartoons or listening to classical music.
“When the band is here, they will speak to some high school classes about what it’s like to be a professional working artist and what it’s like to do that for a job. It’s really cool because the initial cartoons are what inspired The Queen’s Cartoonists, and now their new arrangements have been the inspiration for these new pieces of art from students,” said McGuire.
The Queen’s Cartoonists is part of the 20th season at the George Daily Auditorium. The first professional show the auditorium brought to Oskaloosa was the Dixie Power Trio in the fall of 1997. Over twenty seasons, the auditorium has presented more than 200 professional performances of a variety of genres.
The Queen’s Cartoonists will be at the George Daily Auditorium on Thursday, November 10 at 7:30 p.m.! Tickets cost $22 for adults and $10 for students and are available by calling (641) 672-0799, online at www.georgedaily.org, or at the George Daily Auditorium box office. The Queen’s Cartoonists is sponsored by C.L. Barnhouse and FACE.
