SHOUT!, the Lakeside Pride Jazz Ensemble, will have fingers snapping and toes tapping at its annual spring concert, ‘Swingin’ & Singin’,’ May 7. The 20-piece big band will be joined by guest vocalists Jennifer Connelly and Carl Chadek. This concert also features the premiere performance by the LP Jazz Combo, a new jazz septet, in addition to three new vocal numbers written by conductor Leo Schwartz.
Doors open at 1:30 p.m. at The HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo in Chicago and the band starts up at 2:30. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Tickets are available online at www.lakesidepride.org or at (773) 381-6693. More info about Schwartz is at www.leoschwartz.com.